BizTalk Server Team Blog

Today in Steven Martin's blog , we announced our plans to deliver BizTalk Server 2006 R3 to take advantage of the latest versions of 08 wave of products (Windows Server 2008, .Net framework 3.5, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008). This will enable...

BizTalk Server 2006 released to manufacturing today. My heart-felt congratulations go out to the developers, testers and program managers who have marched through the marathon of the monumental task that is shipping major software. This is by far...

We are pleased to announce the public Beta 2 release of BizTalk 2006 R2. The beta 2 files are available from the Microsoft Connect site . While there are numerous improvements to BizTalk, this release has three major themes: EDI: The native support...

My team has been working on a set of technical BizTalk Server 2006 posters that are finally ready and available for download. Hey, we had to have been doing something while we weren’t blogging. :^) Be that as it may, the first in the series is a capabilities...

Well it’s been 2 months since I’ve posted to the blog. One would think that I’d lost interest. Nothing could be further from the truth! Lot ’s of interesting stuff going on around here that you folks should know about. Once we got BizTalk Server...

Now that BizTalk Server 2006 is everything but wrapped up and out the door we’re putting a large amount of effort into thinking about the near and long term future direction of not only BizTalk Server but also about the foundational technologies such...

I often get request for pointers to training materials for people who are new to BizTalk and figure it's high time we provided a straight forward learning path. I'm going to maintain this post to provide a recommended training roadmap for beginners. Let...

We have been getting very positive feedback so far on the posters. Here is the latest news on this project: A new poster on Scale-Out Configurations for BizTalk has been created. W e have also just released the updated versions of the Capabilities...

In September, we provided a few more details on BizTalk Server 2009 features and release timing. Today we’re excited to report that we’re continuing to make progress toward a full release in the first half of 2009, and have additional news to share. ...

We will be making announcements about BizTalk Server 2006 R2 at three foundational events in just three weeks. B elow, you’ll find more information about these events. There will also be a launch page and a Virtual Press Room online soon. Some of the...

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...

We just had a Channel 9 interview with Tony Bernard , Senior Program Manager, on EDI/AS2 features of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (which is launching this month). Tony covers a lot of information not only on EDI/AS2 features of R2 but also on BizTalk in general...

I recently had the chance to chat with Scott Colestock. Scott is the Chief Architect at Trace Ventures, LLC based in the Twin Cities, MN. He’s also a BizTalk Server MVP. Here’s the transcript from the chat. Mike Woods says: So Scott I moved...

BizTalk Server 2006 Troubleshooting Guide has been published! This document provides troubleshooting techniques through BizTalk Admin console, HAT, Event Log, network monitoring as well as specific tactics for developers to debug adapters, web services...

We are happy to announce that BizTalk Product team is launching the B2B/EDI Blog to communicate feature/functionality relating to EDI, AS2 and HIPAA in BizTalk Server 20006 R2. Readers are welcome to add comments and include suggestions on topics...

Wow, our User Experience team continues to amaze! They have just released an update to the BizTalk Server 2006 documentation that contains tons of new content. I'd list it all here, but there's just too much so check out the attached doc for the full...

Our web services dev and support teams have put together a FAQ that lays out our current and future support for various Web Services technologies including SOAP, WSE 2, WSE 3, and WCF (indigo). Let us know if there are additional questions you think should...

We are delighted to announce the release of the WCF Line-of-Business Adapter SDK . This SDK for Windows Communication Foundation provides the tools to quickly develop adapters to business applications. Adapters built using this SDK can be consumed by...

With 27 days to go until TechEd US 2007 starts, here is the CSD plan and schedule: · The track name has been changed from “Connected Systems” to “SOA and Web Services”. The change has been made to align with Microsoft’s actionable Real World SOA...

[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...

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...

Microsoft today announced the general availability of BizTalk Server 2009, which is available to Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) customers and will be made available broadly in nine languages — Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional, English, French...

As we have pre-announced during several BizTalk sessions at TechEd North America last month, the BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0 , formerly known as the ESB Guidance 2.0 - has been released today to the web. It is available on the new ESB page in the BizTalk...

As you know, in our recent release of BizTalk Server 2006 R2, we provide a scalable and extensible platform for development, deployment, and management of rich RFID and sensor solutions. We have a new video with Anush Kumar on the use of RFID in...

Going to any big parties this weekend? We have 10 new bits of trivia to amaze your friends with! :) Factoid Source 12 of the 15 largest Retailers in the World run Microsoft BizTalk Elsevier Food International...