I have been off the blogs for a while and recently changed roles in Microsoft to be an Industry Technical Strategist in our Worldwide Financial Services practice. I guess I picked a great time to move into our Financial Services practice. :) One of...

I have some thoughts on day 2 from the PDC that I thought I would share. First of all, Microsoft Office 12. This is easily going to be the best version yet. Versions 6.0, 95, 2000, XP, and 2003 had some changes, but the look and feel remained the same...

I have been away from blogging for a while. A little too much travel to keep up with multiple blog sites. In the past 12 months, I have been to Thailand, Japan, Seattle, San Fran, LA, New York 15 time, Orlando, Dallas, Tampa and various other cities....

1) BizTalk Server 2004 will stop functioning after the installation of Windows XP SP2 due to changes in the DCOM security model. Windows XP SP2 is available for download now and will be pushed through WindowsUpdate in late August. Modify the registry...

I have been away for a week in New York again and just got back in the office and cleaned up a little of my emails. In parsing them, I wanted to pass along some information that on Side by Side assembly deployments with BizTalk and how to get this to...

I was watching History channel last night and they were discuss the Napoleonic wars. One of the main strategies used was “divide and conquer”, and it is normally a strategy that I talk about when doing BizTalk development. One of the main...

A demo I sometimes show during various BizTalk presentations is one that shows how to compensate for problems with using long running transactions in BizTalk Server. This sample was originally developed by Erik Leasburgh and Raman Mahal. I created the...

For those of you who have been or are writing adapters a new white paper, "Adapters: A Developer's Guide" is now available on GotDotNET at http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/wsservers/bts2004/BTS2004AdapterDevGuide.zip . This was written by Kevin Smith...

I am prepping for a trip to New York and pulling together some demos and other miscellaneous information. One of the pieces of information I usually give out is more information on using HAT to debug problems. I normally pass along a whitepaper written...

A piece of documentation that I thought would be useful would be more information on using the SQL Adapter with BizTalk to retrieve data from SQL. I decided to write a walkthrough on this, so hopefully this will be useful. Links to whitepaper and project...

I wanted to focus this message on passing on some documentation on creating a deployment machanism to move from development to testing without having to run the deployment wizard over and over. Since I seem to be constantly modifying my samples and demos...