Had been away from a long time, now rebooting and would be concentrating as always on Integration - Azure, BizTalk, WCF, apart from Performance Tuning and ALM. Looking forward towards a new journey !!

Open Communication Transparency Empathy Should be part of team activities Represent true status in the Reports so that management is aware of what is going on. Should be a great negotiator and change manager. Negotiations needs to be done openly with...

Installation Steps: 1. BizTalk Server 2009 x64 is installed and configured properly. 2. Install WCF LOB SDK x64. 2. Install WCF LOB Adapter Pack SP2 x32 and x64. 3. Install BizTalk adapter Pack 2.0 for 2009, both for x86 & x64. Link for EVALUATION...

The TimeScaleValue method is very sensitive to multiple access without garbage clean up.  Note: The key to avoiding the COM exceptions is to clean up after yourself explicitly through calls to Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject.  If you comment out...

Another error on executing SQL Server 2008 Management Studio and just trying to connect to Database Engine. Though after pressing OK on the error mentioned, everything works but Management Node won’t work and you would keep on getting this error again...

I've been running BizTalk 2009 on my Windows 7 machine, and after installing VS 2010 beta 2, the Enterprise Single Sign-On Service stopped working. It failed with the following error: Could not create SSOSQL. To fix the problem, reinstall SSO or try ...

The configuration that needs to be performed on BizTalk Server Message properties in order to send data to Microsoft Dynamics AX using BizTalk Dynamics AX Adapter and Application Integration Framework (AIF) is as follows: To send data to Microsoft Dynamics...

Dynamics AX Queue Manager The Queue Manager is internal queue maintained in Microsoft Dynamics AX. This Queue is the bridge between Dynamics AX and external systems. All the messages sent from other systems or needs to be sent to external systems from...

At a high level the steps required to use self signed certificates for Transport & Message Security for securing the messages sent between a client and service, and also how to use certificates to perform Mutual Authentication between client and service...

Here are a great series of articles on integrating BizTalk Server with Dynamics CRM: 1. Using Microsoft BizTalk Dynamics CRM Adapter – Part 1 2. Using Microsoft BizTalk Dynamics CRM Adapter – Part 2 3. Using Microsoft BizTalk Dynamics CRM Adapter – Part...

The schedule: 1. April 2 nd , 2009 9:00 PM EST - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXQtZsC0JZ4 2. April 9 th , 6:00 A.M. PST, 9:00 AM EST 3. April 16 th , 6:00 A.M. PST, 9”00 AM EST The WCF Champ Website : Gateway to resources that jumpstart developers’...

Categories of Exceptions related to BizTalk / Dynamics AX Interfaces 1. When error Event Source: “ Microsoft Dynamics AX adapter ” a. Refer the Microsoft Dynamics AX Server Event Log for more details b. Refer the Microsoft Dynamics AX Exceptions 2. When...

Microsoft Dynamics AX adapter pulls the data available in the Dynamics AX Queue and publishes it into the Message Box. In one BizTalk Group there can be only one Receive Location that points to a combination of AOS Server Name and AOS Port Number. This...

The following configuration needs to be performed in BizTalk Send Port which would send the data from the BizTalk Server to the Microsoft Dynamics AX using the Application Integration Framework (AIF): 1. Create a New Send Port or use an existing Send...

Here is the article that explains the basics for remote debugging in details: “Remote debugging with Visual Studio 2008” The summary from the same article: Getting the remote debugger to work To get the remote debugger up and running, you must install...

Check out the the article: “How 64-bit version of Windows differs architecturally from 32-bit version” The summary from the article: Sometimes understanding the underlying architecture of a system is critical to being able to work with that system safely...

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This is the first part of the four part series where I would be sharing what all needs to be configured in Dynamics AX and BizTalk Server in order for both to be integrated and send / receive messages from each other. In first part I am starting with...

This script would help you to enable the SQL Dependency on SQL Server Database. You simply needs to replace the “domain\login” with either the SQL Server Login User or Windows User under which the SQL dependency should work. Please execute the script...

The BizTalk Server 2006 Best Practices Analyzer performs configuration-level verification by reading and reporting only. The Best Practices Analyzer gathers data from different information sources, such as Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes...

A scenario where WCF services were hosted to get large amount of data from another ASMX Service. The WCF Service was timing out and wasn't able to return the data, but when testing the same Web Service on the same Server using another ASMX Web Service...

Do you know its possible create Table without using mouse and menus in MS word and Outlook. Here its that… Type the content ( +——+——-+——+ ) in Microsoft Word, Outlook and press Enter . One row of a table will...

I wanted to let everyone know that the BizTalk Operations Guide has been released. The guide can be downloaded from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5251f103-329d-4f8d-95b5-64f99f2f6dfc&DisplayLang=en . It’s a great...

Steps to run a sample scenario which retrieves data from the Oracle DB 1. System DSN - ODBC - keep the name same as the name of the database, else the adapter will not recognize the Database 2. Create a Physical Port using the BizTalk Administration Console...