Azure Thoughts, EAI Challenges

In the new adapters series I discussed the adapters released with BizTalk Server 2013. I demonstrated the relay adapters (HTTP, NetTcp), Service Bus Messaging, WebHttp (REST) and linked to the TechNet Wiki article on SFTP. I have written a White paper that discusses the BasicHttpRelay more in-depth. BizTalk Server 2013 offers a few new adapters. Three of them enable connectivity with the Windows Azure Service Bus. These adapters are the WCF-BasicHttpRelay, WCF-NetTcpRelay, and SB-Messaging. The first two leverage the ability to use the Service Bus Relay. The relay service is one of the entities within the Windows Azure Service Bus. Benefits of using the relay service are that: you can share data between an on premise application, Line-of-Business system or databases with a service hosted elsewhere (in the cloud or other enterprise); you have a secure connection between both sender and receiver of datawith simplified networking (less dealing with firewalls, dynamic IP addresses or...

With the latest release of a BizTalk administration white paper by Tord G. Nordahl the story of running and maintaining BizTalk is complete. Through BizTalk360 site you can obtain the white paper: Proactively keep an eye on health of your Microsoft BizTalk Server Environments . This paper will you learn how to pro-actively avoid some of the scenarios like unplanned downtime, data loss or crippled BizTalk environments. Then there is of course another white paper which you can download from BizTalk360 site called: BizTalk Monitoring Solutions white paper by Kent Weare . With this paper you can learn the differences and similarities between two of best BizTalk monitoring tools available today: System Center Operation Manager and BizTalk360 . That is not all as Jeroen Hendriks owner of BizTalkAdminsblogging has wrote a paper called: How to Properly Administer and Operate a BizTalk Server Infrastructure . And finally there is a white paper created by myself and released last Decem...