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BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Johann Cooper‏

Many of my fellow Integration MVP’s are active within the BizTalk community. This also accounts for some of my colleagues at motion10 . There are more companies in the world that have a number of their professionals active within communities. The beginning of this year I interviewed Mark Brimble from Datacom . He is not the only Datacom professional that is active within the BizTalk community. His colleague Johann Cooper for instance is just as active. Today’s story is on him. Johann has been a Senior BizTalk developer at Datacom for the last year, and he is really enjoying the opportunity to establish and implement best practices with some of the country's top talent in the field.  Prior to that he used to work at Ports of Auckland Ltd. for six years where his career progressed from being more of a support oriented application specialist to a professional with a strong focus on .Net and BizTalk development. Aside from work and blogging, Johann’s spare time has mostly been

Next speaking engagement Portugal: Oporto BizTalk Innovation Day

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March 14th I’ll be in Oporto during the Oporto BizTalk Innovation Day in Portugal. The event is organized by Sandro Pereira and Devscope . Sandro and I will be joined on stage by Microsoft Integration MVP’s Tord Nordahl , Saravana Kumar and Nino Crudele . We as a team (BizTalkCrew) will provide all the presentations of the day and will be answering questions at the end of the event during a Q&A Session. My session will be on the new adapters in BizTalk Server 2013 . In this session I will focus on the adapters that can be used for integration with cloud services and applications. These adapters are the WCF-BasicHttpRelay , WCF-NetTcpRelay , SB-Messaging and WCF-HttpWeb . In this session there will be a couple of demo’s demonstrating on to how to use these adapters. Cheers, Steef-Jan

BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Colin Meade

A few weeks ago I presented at the London BizTalk Summit 2013 . During this event I met a few BizTalk professionals face to face, which I interviewed in the past for these community series. I for instance met Naushad Alam and Stuart Brierly . I also ran into Colin Meade . Colin is a Senior Integration Consultant working for Spanish Point Technologies in Ireland . He is originally from Dublin , but he now lives in Belfast with his wife and daughter. Before he started his career in IT he aspired to be a full-time musician. “Unfortunately, I soon realized playing guitar in a melodic death metal band wasn't going to pay the bills :-), so I decided to change the focus. Despite this, music still plays a massive role outside work and family life; whether it’s chilling out to a few tunes, playing guitar or going to a live gig.” Like Colin I am a huge metal fan too, however I played the bass for a while and played in a band for a few weeks yet I was not cut out to be in a ba

BizTalk Server 2013: New Adapters Series: SB-Messaging

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In previous two posts on the new adapters available with BizTalk Server Bus I discussed both the Relay adapters: BasicHttp and NetTcpRelay . The Relay is one of the capabilities of the Windows Azure Service Bus. It enables you to expose WCF Service that resides within your enterprise. Benefit of exposing the service or at least an endpoint (as a listener) in Windows Azure that you do need to open up a firewall connection or make changes your corporate network. You can circumvent issues with NAT or Dynamic IP. With both posts I provided links to Code Gallery to find samples that illustrate the walk-throughs. Besides the relay service the Windows Azure Service Bus also offers queues, topics and subscriptions. Service Bus Queues offer a brokered messaging similar to on-premise MSMQ. The message can be sent to the queue and a consumer can pick up the message for further processing. The consumer can be a receive port within BizTalk. A receive location within a receive port can be config