Hi folks

I have been quiet for a while as some life changing events (in a good way!) were happing recently... However, here is some fresh information and hopefully return blogging...

I recently gave 2 sessions on the 23rd and 2 sessions on 24th of January on Notes from the Field (NftF)- Architecture Days in Reading and Manchester. NftF is a series of events (including Workshops for some hands-on experience) where we share our field experience, highs and lows, to-dos and not to-dos gained from various engagements across UK.

Both went really well and found chance to dive into the following topics around BizTalk Server 2006:

Session 1: Detailed BizTalk Server 2006 Architecture

• BizTalk Runtime Architecture: What are fundamental principals and components under the hood, common issues that our customers face day to day and how to avoid them?
• Operations and Management Architecture: What are the common deployment patterns for scalability, performance and high availability, and best practices to operate and monitor BizTalk

Session 2: Designing BizTalk Server 2006 Solutions

• Enterprise Application Integration (EAI): Common scenarios how BizTalk plays its part in EAI space?
• Service Orientation Architectures (SOA): How BizTalk can "enable" service orientation and support it?
• (Enterprise) Service Bus Architectures: What is Service Bus Architecture, how does it relate to Event Driven Architectures (EDA) and how SB architectures can be delivered using BizTalk today?
• Existing/Common Problems and Solutions: Solutions to common issues such as "Where's my message gone?"

Next time, I am hoping to provide more information on upcoming events actually before the event :)