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This news is a little old now, I realised today that I forgot to post about it, but there are a whole heap of BizTalk Server Code samples that were released to MSDN back in June 06. http://msdn.microsoft.com/biztalk/downloads/samples/ Take a look at this...

On Nov 30, here in Australia, we are holding a mini version of the SOA and Business Process Conference that was held in Redmond for our local audiences!! This is going to be awesome. The team here have been able to secure David Chappell to present in...

Mario D’Silva our local Exchange Specialist alerted me to a review of BizTalk 2006 at ZDNET Australia. Thanks Mario! Find it here

Tried to install and use the SAP adapter with the BizTalk 2006 Beta 2? Lets take a look….. To install our BizTalk 2006 Beta2 Enterprise SAP adapter, you need as a prerequisite the Microsoft .NET Connector for SAP (down-loadable from SAP’s...

When I attended the SOA and BP conference in OCT in Redmond, I stopped by the FarPoint http://www.fpoint.com/ booth to checkout their new EXCEL parsing adapter they had developed for BizTalk 2006. Essentially its a dissasembler component that consumes...

Excellent!!! I am at TechReady at the moment, our annual internal MS technical event here in Seattle and I attended a session yesterday by our V.P. for BPI. He announced some great news that we (Microsoft) will be releasing new Line of Business Adapters...

I received an email today informing me that our “Host Integration” Product Group is now accepting nominations for Technology Adoption Program sites to validate the new Microsoft BizTalk 2006 Adapters for Host Systems. (Remember these adapters...

One of the most common questions I get when I talk to people about InfoPath is how can I publish the Infopath forms to the web so only people with a browser can interact with them?! As you may or may not know, Infopath for us is an office client application...

Nice stuff. Nigel Page, one of my great colleagues here at MS just alerted me to this link that provides 30 free application templates for WSS (Windows Sharepoint Services). They are effectively out of the box scenarios. Thanks Nigel! From the site;...

Early last year I received a call from one of our customers who was wondering if we could do Secure FTP using BizTalk Server 2004. We certainly don’t have a “native adapter” for Secure FTP (we have the general FTP adapter) so I suggested...

Here is a great summary of Windows Workflow Foundation collateral from our internal communcations team…. Want to know more about our exciting new Windows Workflow Foundation technology? Check these out: · For a superb high level introduction...

Immediately before I joined Microsoft, I was working (2001/2002) for a software vendor called Peregrine Systems who specialise in service and asset management software. In fact, their Service Management Software called ServiceCenter was actually one of...

We all need to thank Erik Leaseburg in the US for collating and keeping this list up to date! Thanks Erik, the whole BizTalk world thanks you ;-) 2003 Aug 29 BizTalk 2004 Overview & VS.NET Integration - Erik Leaseburg http://www.placeware...

I really like the thought of an Integration Competency Centre inside an organisation. The notion of an Integration Competency Centre (ICC) has been around for quite a while… they are not a revelation as such... but over the last 18–24 months ICC’s have...

A couple of resources for you all in case you have missed these on the web…. (and in case you have lots of questions!) I am a fan and advocate of best practices so the docs on sharepoint and CMS may be worth a look. (Just a disclaimer – I...

Congratulations to the Decillion guys in Sydney! I had the pleasure of spending some time with Decillion team last year as they were embarking on their quest to deliver solutions based on BizTalk Server 2004 and the BizTalk SWIFT accelerator. Suffice...

Well, it has certainly taken some more than gentle persuasion from some of my friends, working colleagues and BizTalk community here in Australia .... ;-) but I thought it's time to get with the program and join the merry blogging crew (hey only a couple...

Over the past couple of weeks I have been chatting to several internal colleagues, partners and customers about the confusion around the timing of the BizTalk Server 2006 Launch. I'll set that straight right here! Visual Studio 2005 (Whidbey) and SQL...

Lots, of news. Anyway, here is a post from our internal team that you can also find at; http://blogs.msdn.com/bpidcustomerresponseteam/archive/2005/10/17/482033.aspx EMail me at cvidotto@microsoft.com (in Australia ) if you want more info or would...

So.... ever wanted to load test your BizTalk Servers? Well wait no more! Scott Woodgate posted the fact that the BTS team just released thier Loadgen tool - and we can all use it to our hearts content :-) Here's the summary from Scott's post; "We finally...

I was on the phone with Mick Badran on Friday and he alerted me to an msdn resource called “ Restoring BizTalk Databases to Alternate Computers ”. It’s quite a handy little resource! As per msdn; “When restoring your databases...

Further to my last post about presenting at Swinburne University, Graeme – the lecturer – handed me a great cartoon about our wonderful IT industry! I don’t recall having seen it before, but it is a classic! So true! Click on the Image...

One of the great BizTalk community initiatives that have managed to get kicked off over the lat 8-9 months have been the user groups! Cameron Reilly and I had talked about it for some time when he was still at Microsoft... but in my true fashion I took...

We (Microsoft) recently announced that we are the official Technology Partner for the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth games in March. You can check out the announcement here . I have to say though, withouth a doubt the best part of the article reads; ...