BizTalk Server is Microsoft's integration and connectivity server and is one of the most deployed integration servers in the industry. BizTalk Server 2010 was released just over a year ago. Today we are happy to share details on what customers can expect...

BizTalk Server team is excited to announce the availability of updated schemas and runtime to support HIPAA 5010 Errata in BizTalk Server 2009. The update is available as part of BizTalk Server 2009 Cumulative Update 2 (CU2) package. The following...

Some of customers who have migrated for the old Sap Adapter (BizTalk Adapter 2.0 for mySAP Business Suite) to WCF-SAP adapter (comes with BizTalk Adapter Pack), have come back saying that there are some differences in behavior of the old SAP adapter and...

In the blog posts 1 & 2 , we went over how a Workflow application can pass credentials to the LOB activities. While the mechanisms suggested work when the credentials originate from the application in question, a different approach is required when...

What’s next for BizTalk?  As excited as we are about the recent announcement that we shipped BizTalk Server 2010 ( see blog post ), we know that customers depend upon us to give them visibility into the longer-term roadmap; given the lifespan of...

One of the key requirements in development of cloud based applications is to be able to leverage existing on-premise assets by exposing them as web services. However, since most of the organizations are firewall protected, the on-premise web services...

BizTalk Server 2010 has been released to manufacturing and will be available for purchase starting October 1 st , 2010. The evaluation and free Developer editions are now available for download from the BizTalk Server website . BizTalk Server 2010...

Consider the following scenario – I want to write a workflow that gets instantiated when certain changes happen in LOB (say a new row is added to a table) and then does some processing with the altered data. In the current release of Microsoft BizTalk...

The current mapper was an award winning tool when it was released. But lately we have been hearing from our customers that although mapper is great for simple maps, they are finding it increasingly difficult to develop and maintain maps with the BizTalk...

When working with BAPI(s) in WCF SAP adapter , the transaction handling requires that the BAPI_TRANSACTION_COMMIT/BAPI_TRANSACTION_ROLLBACK call be issued on the same SAP connection that was used to execute the BAPI. The Windows Workflow Foundation 4...

In the previous blog post , we went over how to pass authentication information for WCF SQL, WCF Oracle DB, WCF SAP and WCF Siebel adapters. WCF Oracle E-Business adapter poses some additional challenges since in some case two sets of credentials –...

The LOB Activities need to authenticate with the LOB before they can perform any operations. The Send activity in Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0, which is how a workflow can invoke a WCF service operation, presently does not support authentication. Since...

Our training partner Quicklearn is announcing the availability of new online training on BizTalk Server 2010 . This is a series of self-paced online training courses that include hand-on lab experience and instructor support. It really allows you to take...

[Update 21/10/2010: Made changes to the article to reflect the changes in branding and features post RTM] In the recently released BizTalk Server 2010 , we introduced a new feature of BizTalk called "AppFabric Connect”, which allows users to...

We are very excited to welcome the public Beta release of BizTalk Server 2010. We have some very interesting enhancements in B2B space in this release. I want to share a brief around the Trading Partner Management feature. Trading Partner Management(TPM...

It’s been about 10 days since we have launched the Beta version of BizTalk Server 2010 together with the Windows Server AppFabric RC. The virtual launch site includes a 4 new videos of recorded demos that you can get access to only if you pick the BizTalk...

Today we’re excited to announce the availability of the BizTalk Server 2010 Beta, which will RTM in the third quarter of calendar year 2010. BizTalk Server 2010 aligns with the latest Microsoft platform releases, including SQL Server 2008 R2, Visual...

We will be announcing the public Beta of BizTalk Server 2010 at the Application Infrastructure Virtual Launch tomorrow (Thursday, May 20 th , 2010 at 8:30 AM PST) with planned RTM in Q3 of 2010. BizTalk Server 2010 aligns with the latest Microsoft...

Some of our customers have experienced problems while developing BizTalk projects that references other BizTalk projects. This problem occurs because the project reference is lost intermittently when developing a BizTalk project in Visual Studio. We have...

Consider the following scenario: There is an adapter on a Receive Location, which submits a message in Format A into BizTalk. The Pipeline configured on this Receive Location converts the message into Format B. Assume that there is no map configured on...

In the past, the product team has been blogging about BizTalk in multiple blogs: BizTalk Engine http://blogs.msdn.com/biztalk_core_engine/ Adapters http://blogs.msdn.com/adapters/ B2B/EDI http://blogs...

Microsoft Host Integration Server 2006 Service Pack 1 has been released and is available for download here This Service Pack includes hotfixes based on customer request and other fixes initiated by the product team. It improves the quality, reliability...

If you have been wondering so far whether an ESB implementation is the right solution for your integration problems, let us help you make the right decision. On Feb 11th, Peter Kelcey (Technical Sales Professional from Microsoft Canada) and I, will be...

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available. This service pack is an update for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and includes a roll-up of hot fixes from the BizTalk Server 2006 and 2006 R2 releases, some hot fixes from the BizTalk Server...

In case you have missed it, about two weeks ago a few members of the BizTalk Server and the SQL Server Customer Advisory Teams (CAT) have released to Codeplex, a vey useful BizTalk performance benchmarking tool. The BizTalk Benchmark Wizard checks the...