Chris Vidotto's Blog

Woohoo. This is exciting. One of our Program Managers in Redmond, Mitch, has had the pleasure of announcing the TAP program for BizTalk 2006 R2! Check this out… BTS just gets better! Thanks Mitch…. This is awesome!! Announcing BizTalk...

A lot of people don’t actually know that we have a great hosted infrastructure set up at msdn called “ Virtual Studio Hosted Experience ”. The best part is that there are a heap of BizTalk Server 2004 Virtual Labs that you can...

I thought I’d take some time to capture some of my thoughts for each of the sessions I was lucky enough to be involved in this year. This was my third session at Teched and was very fortunate to have Paul Woods from Data#3 and Steve Maw from...

I had the pleasure last night of presenting to some students at Swinburne University on my customer and Industry experiences around BPI (Business Process and Integration) with Microsoft. I was invited by Graeme Carbines – lecturer at Swinburne –...

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Jamie Sharp is our security advisor here at MS and he just pointed me to Windows Live Safety Center at http://safety.live.com/site/en-US/default.htm . This is great! You can do an online health check of your PC anywhere!! Tell your friends and family...

Awesome! Mark Burch, our Australian BizTalk Server support engineer has started a blog!! Woo hoo. Keep across this blog for plenty of goodness… Welcome to the BizTalk blogosphere Mark. Check it out here: http://biztorque.net/

I received an email this morning from our partner readiness team detailing that we have secured our newly crowned MVP – Mick Badran – to deliver a 3 day Business Process Integration and Workflow workshop in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane!...

Mainstream support ends for BizTalk 2000 in June this year, so if you are still running BizTalk 2000 in your production env it may be worth knowing this! No better time to start considering the upgrade to BTS 2006! For more info on the Support Lifecycle...

I’m sitting here listening to all of the dialog around BizTalk 2006 R2 and RFID is already kicking butt over here. I want to hear from partners in Australia who feel they are prepared to take this on board. I can;t get across to all of you personally...

Ok, so it has been nearly a month since I last blogged and quite frankly there are no excuses. That won’t happen again :-) Lots has been happening in that time, I’ve been to Singapore for work, to Sydney, to Brisbane, to Adelaide and you know...

https://www.local.microsoft.com.au/australia/events/register/home.aspx?levent=250304&linvitation BizTalk RFID Workshop – End-to-End This aim of this 2 day hands-on course is to take the student from the “nuts and bolts” of BizTalk RFID to enriching...

CHEP chooses Cactus Commerce to develop Global Track & Trace RFID Solution Microsoft Gold Certified RFID systems integrator helps leading logistics company extend the benefits of RFID to their customer OTTAWA, ON and LOS ANGELES, CA - October...

Wow… I have been offline for 2 weeks and I have soooooo much great info to share. Thanks for everyone’s patience. I was pre-occupied for two weeks on a great proof of concept with some great guys and company that I am not really able to disclose...

Oops, so I am a little late with this entry….. It was way down in my inbox and I overlooked blogging it!! So sorry. Anyhow, you have to check out these BizTalk 2006 Launch webcasts…. if you miss them, I am sure they will be recorded for...

It’s the first time I can ever say that my job is taking me to Newcastle in NSW :-) I’ll be there from Wednesday to Friday this week (Wed 18th Jan to Fri 20th Jan) so if you live around the area and you want to chat then email me at cvidotto...

T his is a fantastic video case study of how the Microsoft XBOX division has extensively used BizTalk Server in their supply chain processes for the recent XBOX 360 release. Certainly worth a look. It talks to: Better Supplier Visibility, Supply Chain...

Paul woods is a colleague of mine in Brisbane who has done fantastic work raising the profile of BizTalk in Brisbane by managing and owning some local programs an initiatives around our Business Process and Integration platform. He has organised (and...

There’s no stopping the man!! Great stuff Mick.. Mick just recently presented a webcast (on request from our Redmond team) on BizTalk 2006 and Workflow Foundation working in harmony :-) Check it out here . I am on a flight to Sydney tonight so...

I received an email from Charles Sterling informing me that Jeff Beehler – Redmond Lead Program Manager for VSTS – will be in Sydney on 22nd March 2006 and Melbourne on 23rd March 2006. http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2006/01/22/515843...

I thought I’d take some time to capture some of my thoughts for each of the sessions I was lucky enough to be involved in this year. The first session we ran was one called Building Enterprise Class BizTalk Server Solutions. When we did the original...

I've taken on a new role within Microsoft Australia.... It's called an Application Platform Solution Specialist . So what does that mean? You're guess is as good as mine.... Just kidding ;-) Essentially, I am now responsible to help customer, partner...

Back in March 2006 I had the pleasure of blogging about the great job that Decillion (a local Australian Partner) did on their BizTalk / SWIFT Accelerator implementation at BNP Paribas here in Australia. Well it appears they have done it again - this...

Our Microsoft Readiness team has informed me of some more upcoming BizTalk 2006 Training to be held in Melbourne and Sydney. It’s titled the; Connected Systems & Integration (Biztalk 2006) workshop It’s being held in Sydney on: 22-24 Feb, 2006...

Over the past couple of months, I have mentioned (in passing) to many of you about the Microsoft Business Process Alliance (which was recently launched). I have been surprised that not many people have actually heard about it.... Essentially, the Microsoft...