Alan Faulkner's Forefront Security Blog

Microsoft Forefront Codename "Stirling" Beta 1

akfaulkner — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:54:00 GMT

Hey Folks

As you might know, we released Microsoft Forefront Codename "Stirling" a couple of weeks ago at RSA 2008. I encourage you all to watch the demo, download the product, and give it a try. Please send feedback as well through the Connect program - your feedback is invaluable!

Enjoy

Alan

Welcome again - New Team and Focus!

akfaulkner — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:57:00 GMT

I have recently made the switch from Commerce Server to Forefront Server team on the Stirling product. See more information about Stirling here: http://www.microsoft.com/forefront/prodinfo/roadmap/stirling.mspx

I also worked on FCS Enterprise Manager. More information here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=D9413461-9384-4B14-8A26-1E77E6D98182&displaylang=en

I have taken a huge break on blogging but hope to get into it soon with some helpful posts!

-Alan

Sample Orchestration for Commerce Server 2007 Adapters on GotDotNet

akfaulkner — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 04:11:00 GMT

I have uploaded a sample BizTalk Orchestration on GotDotNet. You can download it here, under the Release section.

Here are the instructions for using the orchestration (these instructions are also contained in the sample project):

1. You will need to compile the Commerce Server Adapters located in the SDK: %ProgramFiles%\Commerce Server 2007\SDK\Adapters\MessageSchemas.
2. You will need to add a reference to the compiled schema's dll to this sample orchestration
3. You will need to modify the Biztalk Server name in the deployment settings of the project.
4. Once you deploy the orchestration - You will need to bind the ports. You can do this through BizTalk 2006 Administration Console.

Hope this Helps.

Alan

Commerce Server Community now on MSDN Forums

akfaulkner — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 05:47:00 GMT

We have officially opened our new Commerce Server Community Support Group on MSDN Forums.

We would love for you to join and post any questions or issues that you have with Commerce Server 2007 or Commerce Server 2002. You must have a Microsoft Passport account to post questions or issues.

Hope to see you all there!

Alan

DW/A Class Creation Script from Webcast

akfaulkner — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:29:00 GMT

If you have seen our DW/A WebCast Series, I have placed the script that was used to create the DiscountsApplied DW/A Class. Enjoy!

'Create an ADO connection object.
Dim cnnConnection
Set cnnConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")

'Create an ADO command object.
Dim cmdCommand
Set cmdCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")

'Create an ADO record object.
Dim recNew
Set recNew = CreateObject("ADODB.Record")

'Open a connection (bind) to the provider.
'Modify the values for Catalog, Database, User, and Password to match your
'resources.
   cnnConnection.Open "URL=mscop://InProcConnect/Server=localhost:" & _
    "Catalog=DWSchema:Database=StarterSite_datawarehouse:Trusted_Connection=Yes:" & _
    "FastLoad=True"

'Set the connection in the command object.
Set cmdCommand.ActiveConnection = cnnConnection

'Turn on "Schema Change" mode.
'SchemaMode can be set to On, True, or 1 to turn the
' schema change mode on.
cmdCommand.CommandText = "SchemaMode=1"
cmdCommand.Execute

'Create a new class in the Class Definition table.
recNew.Open "Class/DiscountsApplied", cnnConnection, _
adModeWrite, adCreateOverwrite

'Set the attributes.
   recNew("ClassDefName") = "DiscountsApplied"
'Always set SourceDefName to test_Source for new classes.
   recNew("SourceDefName") = "test_Source"
   recNew("Description") = "Discount Applied."
   recNew("GenerateTableDef") = 1
   recNew("GeneratePartitionDef") = 1

'Create your own key.
recNew("GenerateKeyDef") = 0

recNew("GenerateIdentity") = 1