So after 5 great years being a technology specialist for connected systems, I've decided to take on a new challenge at Microsoft Canada. I’ve slowly been winding down my BizTalk specific activities for the last month now and as one of my final...

I recently participated with our MCS Canada team on a large BizTalk 2009 and CRM 4.0 integration project. I gained a ton of experience about CRM integration from that project and I thought I’d speak about it at our semi-annual TechReady internal...

When selecting a new technology platform, everyone loves to know the platform has already been proven out in production in some other organizations. (Let them find all the bugs and issues! Not us!). With that in mind, I wanted to call out the new case...

Many of you have been waiting for this, and BizTalk 2010 has just been released to manufacturing. It will be available for purchase starting October 1 st , 2010. The evaluation and free Developer editions are now available for download from the BizTalk...

Nice project put together by one of our MVPs. He’s used the StreamInsight CEP tool to monitor data from SQL Profiler.   http://www.sqlis.com/sqlis/post/Streaming-Profiler-Data-Through-StreamInsight.aspx Cheers Peter

During my years in the IT world I’ve been fortunate enough to meet ton of really intelligent and brilliant people. Many of them have been a joy to speak with and work along side of. However a number of them have been incredibly painful to interact...

Our Connected Systems platform encompasses a number of technologies including BizTalk Server, Windows Server AppFabric, Azure, Windows Azure AppFabric, WCF, etc… If you are interested in any or all of those products, then you should check out our upcoming...

I recently helped a client debug an exception they were getting when they tried to run the ESB configuration tool. They kept receiving a rather puzzle error messages which stated: “The type initializer for ‘EsbConfigurationTool.Helper’ threw an exception...

If you’re trying to install the ESB Toolkit 2.0 samples on a 64 bit environment, then you have likely seen an error similar to the following. Build succeeded.     0 Warning(s)     0 Error(s) Time Elapsed 00:00:07.87 New-Object...

Hey, my ESB Toolkit videos have found a new home. They’ve made their way over to www.cloudcasts.net It’s a great community site dedicated to hosting webcasts concerning Microsoft technologies. Run by the very prolific webcaster Alan Smith, this site has...

The webcast that Ofer and I ran last week “Improving Business Agility with the Enterprise Service Bus”  went quite well (at least that’s the feedback we heard from those of you who attended.) For those of you who couldn’t attend and those of you...

Wow, it must be the week for Service Pack announcements. First we see the BizTalk 2006-R1 SP and now HIS 2006 gets its very own SP.  Details from about the release are below. Please note, that the Knowledge Base articles listed below might not be...

Folks… I admit that I’ve blatantly copied this from the BizTalk Server Team Blog. Just trying to spread to the word :) <Plagiarism> Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available. This service pack is an update for BizTalk...

On Feb 11th, I’ll be co-presenting an MSDN Webcast with Ofer Ashkenazi (Senior Technical Product Manager). We will be focusing on how the ESB can accelerate the implementation of a dynamic and highly reusable messaging and integration framework. ...

Welcome to #8 in my series of ESB Toolkit How To Videos. If you haven’t already seen the previous videos, I encourage you to do so. The previous ones can be found here Basic Itinerary Routing and UDDI Integration Composite Itinerary and Dynamic...

Update Dec 3, This event is now available “On-Demand” at On Demand URL: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/InviteOnly.aspx?EventID=56-1E-60-91-4F-33-94-40-BA-3B-76-70-1E-6C-6A-88&Culture=en-CA As part of the “BizTalk In Your Industry” webcast series...

Hi all. I’ve always used Skydrive and this blog to host my ESB Toolkit how-to videos but I have had a number of people ask me to find a better place for them to live. Well, I am now pleased to say that we are moving them to the ESB Toolkit page on MSDN...

Update Nov 31, 2009 : This webcast is now available on demand at http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032432973&EventCategory=5&IO=NPepxX6Uez%2fMP%2bozhR4p8Q%3d%3d&culture=en-CA&CountryCode=CA In the next...

So PDC is over and boy did we get a lot of announcements with regards to our Connected System’s Technologies. We learned that the upcoming “Dublin” application server for WCF and WF components will formally be named Windows AppFabric. We also learned...

Since I started releasing the ESB Toolkit how-to videos, I’ve had several people ask me for the source code for all of the components I demo’d. Well, it took me way to long to get them packaged up, but here they are finally. I’ve packaged up everything...

To all you folks who have been waiting for the new Management Pack for BizTalk 2009 to be released, it is finally here. You can download it at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=389FCB89-F4CF-46D7-BC6E-57830D234F91&amp;displaylang...

Yeah! Pro BizTalk 2009 is now published and available. It was an interesting project to be involved with (even in just a small way). You can find it on Amazon now at http://www.amazon.ca/Pro-BizTalk-2009-George-Dunphy/dp/1430219815/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s...

Welcome to #7 in my series of ESB Toolkit How To Videos. If you have not seen the previous videos, I encourage you to do so. The previous ones can be found here 1) Basic Itinerary Routing and UDDI Integration 2) Composite Itinerary and Dynamic Mapping...

Welcome to #6 in my series of ESB Toolkit How To Videos. If you have not seen the previous videos, I encourage you to do so. The previous ones can be found here 1) Basic Itinerary Routing and UDDI Integration 2) Composite Itinerary and Dynamic Mapping...

Update: Sorry folks, the first link I posted for the video was incorrect. I have updated it now: Welcome to #5 in my series of ESB Toolkit How To Videos. If you have not seen the previous videos, I encourage you to do so. The previous ones can be found...