I rebuilt my laptop recently with Windows 7 and installed AppFabric, .net4, VS 2010, etc. When I came to configure BIzTalk 2009 I got the error in the subject line because the SSOSQL assembly needed to be re-registered. Follow the instructions here...

Previous Parts: For more information: Benchmark your BizTalk Server (Part 1) How to install: Benchmark your BizTalk Server (Part 2) Drill Down on BizTalk Baseline Wizard Now that you understand what the tools is let’s look at how it can be used in a realistic...

Just a quick post. I hit this on my machine today whilst writing a quick sample. When creating a BizTalk Project I got Creating project ‘project name’… project creation failed in the VIsual Studio dialog bottom left of the screen. Changing the reg key...

I'm presenting a webcast on BizTalk Performance this Tuesday September 01, 2009 1:00 PM Pacific Time along with Trace Young who wrote the majority of the BizTalk Documentation. We'll be covering a summary of all the performance tests we've performed in...

Rama, one of my colleagues in the CAT team has just shipped the BizTalk Server 2009 RFID Operations Guide. Rama worked for two years as a Feature Program Manager on the V1 release and joined the CAT team just under a year ago. He knows RFID inside and...

To provide presence for the team in an official manner on MSDN we have over the last few months put up the following page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/biztalk/dd876758.aspx Our team delivers many presentations to internal and external audiences...

I had the pleasure of taking part in Richard Seroter's interview series this week http://seroter.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/interview-series-four-questions-with-ewan-fairweather/ Richard is one of our most prolific CSD bloggers and is a real asset to...

I discovered a must install KB for Hyper-V BizTalk installations if you are using NLB today. I'm setting up the lab for our BizTalk 2009 performance boot camp next week. We're comparing the performance of common Orchestration scenarios and optimizations...

I've just got back from a week working with a customer. The customer was a large retailer using BizTalk to perform processing over AS2. They had just installed a new QA environment and wanted the operational environment to be optimized for their application...

My friend and colleague Paolo Salvatori has just started a blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/paolos/ and began with a great post on Synchronous to Asynchronous Flows Without an Orchestration http://blogs.msdn.com/paolos/archive/2008/07/21/msdn-blogs.aspx...

I've just completed the BizTalk 2006 R2 Hyper-V Guide project working with the BizTalk UE team and Clint Huffman from Premier Field Engineering. The purpose of this guide is to provide you with the information, techniques and best practices necessary...

It's been a long time since my last post. Since the last post a lot of things have happened. I took a new position as a Program Manager in the BizTalk Customer Advisory Team (CAT) in Redmond in April. I'll be giving more details on my move and what my...

I'm doing some work with a customer this week who had an excessively large staticstateinfo table (more than 60,000 rows) in their BizTalk Message Box. The table contains static Orchestration information, to be loaded at runtime, it has a row for each...

I've recently been doing some performance tuning work for a customer. The customer wanted to achieve a throughput of 100 messages per second on their solution. The message flow was quite straightforward so it should have been achievable. Unfortunately...

Welcome to my blog! My name is Ewan Fairweather and in this blog I'll be blogging about BizTalk and the other technology I work with at Microsoft. Expect about 80% of the content to be BizTalk related, I'll include posts on SQL and .NET as appropriate...