Well....I guess it was time. My last day at Microsoft was November 30th. Over 6 years working with the BizTalk team.....I'm a little sad to go. I really loved the BizTalk development world so this was a hard decision for me. Between working on customer...

Well....the project is humming a long....more cool things we're doing. Here's an email I sent out to some folks in the community Announcing - August 2007 Community Release (CTP3) of ESB Guidance – http://www.codeplex.com/esb By Marty Wasznicky Field Program...

Announcing - June 2007 Community Release of ESB Guidance – http://www.codeplex.com/esb By Marty Wasznicky Field Program Manager, Connected Systems Division In October of 2006, we announced the preview of the Microsoft ESB Guidance at Microsoft SOA Conference...

Wow......I can't even remember the last time I blogged. I've been living on an airplane; it seems like for years now. I guess an update is in order. I'm still working for Microsoft....in the Connected Systems Division. That's the place in Redmond where...

BizTalk Server 2004 has a very cool architecture that allows it to balance the processing of a workload across many BizTalk Servers when they are configured to function as a group. When we use this "Group", or "Farm" configuration, all the BizTalk Servers...

Installing BizTalk Server 2004 sometimes entails installing Windows Sharepoint Services, specifically if you want to use Business Activity Services (Trading Party Mgmt, BAM portal, etc..). However, I see more and more folks configuring it improperly,...

We've been at it again. If you haven't seen these, check out these new white papers: BizTalk Server 2004: A Messaging Engine Overview . This document describes the architecture and internal workings of BizTalk Server 2004 as a messaging engine. BizTalk...

A lot of folks heard at the Tech-Ed Keynote address on June 7 that we will have a joint launch of Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 on November 7, 2005. Please do NOT confuse this with the RTM (Release to Manufacturing) date...

I just posted a pretty cool sample of how you could call a map dynmically in C#. Very nice. However, it has a drawback (besides being officially unsupported ). Specifically, t he way I used TransformBase in the sample will result in regenerating a dynamic...

Every wonder how you could possibly reuse the XSLT that we store in BizTalk maps? Every wonder how you could pick and chose which map to execute in your code from the compiled BizTalk Assembly. Well there is a way! The type containing the map xslt is...

Done for the night....I'll post a lot more later this week...

Remember, during the course we went over App Domain configuration for BizTalk. The key to creating App Domains with BizTalk, and hence being able to use configuration files with your project is to edit the BTSNTSvc.exe.config file located in the BizTalk...

I find this very handy for my laptop that does NOT have BizTalk Server 2004 installed on it. Its a compiled version of the online docs....a convenient chm file. Its updated to SP1. Enjoy.

I can't believe I see more and more recent BizTalk implemenations in production WITHOUT SP1. With all the issues that we fixed in SP1, any new BizTalk Server 2004 project should simply never go into production without SP1. I can't stress that enough....

Here's the powerpoint decks we used for some of the extended sessions. Some of these have added sections on all the perf tuning recommendations we layed out. There's quite a bit that you have to consider when working in a farm scenario. Also, you'll find...

Hi Everyone.......well...this is a first! I never thought I'd actually post something to my own Blog. I think I set this up 6 months ago or so, but after seeing all the wonderful content already being posted to blogs, I thought to myself, what could I...