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BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Eldert Grootenboer

Recently I visited fellow Microsoft Integration MVP Nino Crudele in Italy and met with some of his fellow BizTalk colleagues. I am amazed by work Nino and his fellow country man put in for the (local) community and their customers. The same dedicated I see in my own country. One of them is Eldert Grootenboer . Today’s story is about him. Eldert is 30 years old, and lives in Rijen in Brabant , together with his wife Angelique. Both being big fans of rock and metal, they try to regularly visit concerts and festivals in their free time. Another metal music fan like myself and from the beautiful province Brabant. Besides enjoying the wonderful world of heavy metal Eldert likes to get his hands dirty on new technologies, both in the integration world, like Azure BizTalk Services, as well as in general .NET. “Also, having grown up on a ship, I still like to spend time on ships, and also do some work for a shipping company in my spare time, ranging from building computers to programmi

BizTalk PaaS: Windows Azure BizTalk Services – Part II

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Last year in December 2012 during the BizTalk Summit we first as a preview saw the progress Microsoft BizTalk Product Team made on the BizTalk Services. Now it is here as preview for the general audience. Fellow Microsoft Integration MVP’s Kent Weare ( Introducing Windows Azure BizTalk Services Preview –Part 1 , Part 2 ) and Richard Seroter ( Walkthrough of New Windows Azure BizTalk Services ) shared there views and experiences with BizTalk Services. Now I will share you mine. My previous post was about setting up BizTalk Services and the post made by Sam VanHoutte proved to be very useful. In this post I like to delve into building a BizTalk Service project that is going to expose some data from a SQL Server database. I have build a BizTalk solution that recieves messages from runners participating a half marathon race from a Windows Azure Service Bus Topic called race. Messages are send from an application or device. The Messages are send to topic race . Messages are

BizTalk PaaS: Windows Azure BizTalk Services – Part I Set-Up

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Today Scott Guthrie announced a number of great enhancements to Windows Azure. One of these is of interest to us integration professionals: BizTalk Services . A new service in the Windows Azure Platform that enables EDI and EAI integration in the cloud. Now many of you might know or is familiar with previous Windows Azure EAI/EDI labs , which can be considered as a Beta or preview of this new service. In this post and a follow up I like to walk you through the creation of a BizTalk Service (Set up) and use case scenario that leverages the BizTalk Services. I was inspired and guided by the post of Sam VanHoutte, Codit Belgium . In case you have an azure account then you can go to the preview features: https://account.windowsazure.com/PreviewFeatures and try it out. The scenario or use case I am going to use is about providing secure access to a database that contains running data. Let’s say 30.000 people run a half marathon race. Every 5K there is a mark that registers the