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One of my colleagues here at MS and great mates Steve Wright forwarded me a link to a book on amazon called Designing Healthcare Solutions with BizTalk Server 2004 . I’m somewhat embarrassed that I did not know this book existed! Has anyone had...

**** I cannot keep up with the changes. As of 26th April 2007 these are the new dates for the R2 Training **** Cliftons and Associates - Perth Ground Floor Parmeila House 191 St George's Terrace Perth Western Australia 6000 Australia...

We have laucnhed the *Windows Live Community Builder* service. It allows businesses, non-profit organisations or anyone who wants to create a community service to create customised, branded online experiences. It can include email services, member services...

BizTalk Server Best Practices Analyzer From Luke Nyswonger’s Blog at: ( http://blogs.msdn.com/luke/archive/2006/06/02/615429.aspx ) The Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 Best Practices Analyzer examines a BizTalk Server 2006 deployment and...

The latest draft of the content for this year’s TechEd in Australia has been posted to Kleefy’s blog. http://blogs.technet.com/mkleef/archive/2006/06/09/434444.aspx Please comment!! Let me know if you want any Tracks relating to BizTalk...

I honestly have to say that last night's A-League Soccer (Football) semi final game that I went to here in Melbourne was the best sporting event I have ever attended live! Having an Italian heritage means that growing up as a kid, I used to play soccer...

Got this from Katya at COVAST. Chris Vidotto As a professional in the Integration space, you know that many large organizations have already invested in a great B2B gateway! HOWEVER, many small and medium sized Suppliers or Customers do not have the IT...

These guys have finally made the A-List and decided that BizTalk is by far the best enterprise server software we have in the marketplace. That’s a certificate they’re holding in their hands…. a formal certificate courtesy of me –...

Awesome, Rob Bannerman (Product Management Team) emailed me to day to let me know that the registration site is open for the 2006 Business Process Management and Integration Conference in Redmond! You NEED to get to this conference. It will rock (it did...

Got an email today from one of our BizTalk customers in Melbourne. He seemed to be having an error while trying to retrieve an IDOC from SAP using the BizTalk 2006 SAP Adapter. The error he was getting was: Anyway, after doing a bit of digging around...

OK, so no hiding the fact I have been a little behind on my blog posts over the last several weeks ;-) It’s somewhat old news now but in case you did not know, the BTS team in Redmond have launched a new B2B / EDI blog to keep us all updated. It’s...

While I was over in Redmond a couple of weeks ago, I caught up with Ginny Simmons from QuickLearn. I have been wanting to bring QuickLearn back to Australia / NZ to deliver some deep dive BizTalk 2006 courses, but really need to get some momentum here...

Jim Bowyer (one of my colleagues in Canada, and BPI guru), sent us all a direct link on msdn to the section in the BizTalk Help called “ Contents of the BizTalk Server 2006 Management Pack”. Check it out here: http://msdn.microsoft.com...

Happy to say that BizTalk 2006 has officially launched!!! Woohooo. It RTM’d Friday, and will be generally available (GA) on May 1, 2006. \Do you think the picture is large enough! I want to see all of your great BTS2006 projects! Enjoy……

Bill Chesnut informed me that the next Melbourne BizTalk User Group meeting will be on Tuesday Jan 24 th 2006. It will be a joint presentation with the Victoria .Net User Group. From Bill: Starting at 5:30 pm with Pizza & Drinks supplied by...

Paul woods was kind enough to record the May 2006 Qld User Group BizTalk Session where Mark Daunt presented on the usage of the BizTalk Business Rules Engine. (Thanks Mark and Paul). The link to the session recording can be found here: Paul Woods has...

Alrighty then….. go get em! Andrew McLaren from our team in Sydney just highlighted to me that you can now go and download the eval version’s of: Microsoft Host Integration Server 2006 Evaluation Edition (120-day) http://www.microsoft...

I was just on IM with Phill Kenny from Bryn Systems and he confirmed that they are definitely still looking to expand their BizTalk practice! (Go BizTalk!) Bryn have quite a bit of BizTalk experience and stems back to the early BizTalk 2000 days. You’d...

Next Melbourne BizTalk User Group is scheduled for July 20. Check it our here From the user group site ( http://melbiz.org ) We will be holding the next Melbourne BizTalk User Group Meeting on Thursday 20th July 2006 at 6:00pm The venus and sponsor...

Email from our internal readiness team... Hi, Aligned to the BizTalk Release 2, global launch in Australia, we have scheduled the training for Partners as per below. Please ensure that your partners are aware of this and register: As always – thank you...

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 second session at Teched and was lucky enough to have Nick Ward by my side who is our national SQL...

Just in case you do not have them, here is the link to the: BizTalk Server 2006 Installation and Upgrade Guides…

One of our program managers in Redmond has a great site showcasing Powerpivot. http://powerpivotpro.com Email from Rob: “For those of you who have not seen it, I thought it was worth mentioning here, since it seems people are finding it in semi-random...

From my MSDN subscriber blast…. Dear MSDN subscribers, End of Financial Year Special 45% off  on Team Suite Upgrade Conditions Apply Update: Team Suite is cheaper in June* Benefit from a 45% discount * if you purchase a Step up license from Visual...

Hey All, Just curious to know if any of you have actually taken a look at the first BizTalk 2006 book on the market? I have not gone out and bought it yet, but I am keen to know what some of your opinions are. You can actually buy it at Borders here...