Try - http://www.codecademy.com/ (my colleague, Mark Brown from the Azure team pointed this out) - love the low-friction experience to get started!

G'day folks, The following reference implementation came out of our CAT team (Field experts). This reference implementation comprises of a production quality, fully documented hybrid solution that demonstrates how customers can extend their existing...

RenderMan software (of Lord of the Rings & Avatar fame) will reside on the Windows Azure - this will give a huge boost to our Azure platform visibility! One of the hot startups this year, GreenButton, has announced its partnership with Pixar studios...

Click here to see what the Intuit Partner Platform team has to say about this partnership.

G'day folks, As some of you would know the theme for the Roadshows we had last year was "Begin Your Journey To The Cloud" and the key message was start thinking about Cloud as the benefits are far too many to ignore. Well, I am now in the Windows Azure...

This training kit contains a complete set of materials that will enable you to learn the core developer capabilities in BizTalk Server 2010. This kit includes lab manuals, PowerPoint presentations and videos, all designed to help you learn about BizTalk...

The AppFabric courses that we announced earlier are now available over the web. Please take sometime to familiarize yourselves with this new technology: Developer Introduction to Windows Server AppFabric (Part 1) Developer Introduction to Windows Server...

The BizTalk Saturday , a great initiative from our Partner & VTS community in Australia & NZ is open for Darwin, Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane with Perth, Canberra, Adelaide, Auckland and Wellington.

G’day Folks, One of our partners, Tellago, has developed an interesting WCF RESTful Registry solution, SO-Aware ™. Jesus Rodriguez is presenting a webinar tomorrow on about how SO-Aware can help you manage your WCF and BizTalk solutions. If...

Folks, The BizTalk Server 2010 training kit is out and includes labs and training videos to help you learn about the new features of BizTalk Server 2010. After downloading the training kit, just unzip the files to the root of the C drive (checkout the...

Folks, today we've formally announced the RTM of BizTalk 2010 & GA on Oct 1st 2010! Click here for the announcement. Download the free Developer edition now! Checkout the new AppFabric connect.

Folks, the AppFabric Server CAT team has begun blogging about some of the technical guidance & best practices from AppFabric, BizTalk, WCF, WF, SQL Data Modeling & StreamInsight technologies. Click here for the blogs.

Check your Receive pipeline - Pass Through Receive will not work, change it to XML Receive and you're cooking with gas! I needed a custom pipeline (to make it equivalent to XML Receive I had to drag an XML Disassembler) - I also needed an XML Validator...

Folks, I've been asked by a lot of guys in the field that they've reinstalled BizTalk & Visual Studio a few times and this error still wont go away. The reason is simple, your computer probably has the UAC turned on. The fix to the problem is also...

Folks, Wesley & Tomasso from Motion10 recently did a fantastic presentation & demo for Virtual-TSs which was published by the Academy Live. Click here for the details.

Folks, Just got an email from Sam Vanhoutte (one of our V-TS partners in EU) that Jon Flanders is flying over to Europe give a training on AppFabric, WCF and Workflow. This training is open for customers and partners and takes place in Brussels, mid-june...

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Folks, The arrival of the New Year coincides with my move to Redmond - yes, I've taken up a new job at our HQ and will be joining the Application Platform team as a Snr. Product Manager. I'm very excited and looking forward to this exciting move but at...

Folks, Covast, now have an ebXML message service adapter for BizTalk that can talk ebXML messages. Click here for details

Folks, We are planning to have the Business Integration Roadshow in Sydney & Melbourne in Feb 2010. Watch this space for more information as we get closer to the event. The Corp website on this roadshow is here

Folks, Often I get asked about the blogs on HIS - just got a mail from Charles Ezzell who sent me the links: http://blogs.msdn.com/sjackson/ http://blogs.msdn.com/hispss/ http://blogs.msdn.com/charliee/ Hope that helps!

Folks, Our BizTalk Ranger for AsiaPacific & Snr. Program Manager, Quoc Bui, has finally started his blogs! Watch this space for some high quality & insightful blogs!

Folks, in the last week I've got quite a few calls from Sydney & Melbourne based partners asking for BizTalk consultants. Drop me a line if you want to explore these options and I'll be happy to connect you with the partners.

Folks, one of the nasty errors you may get while incorrectly configuring the SSO in the ESB toolkit is "Exception calling pushallconfiguration with 6 arguments". This is related to the security permissions and can be fixed by using the BizTalk Server...

3 years at Microsoft - without any shadow of doubt this has been the most exciting journey that I've ever had in my professional life! Every day brings you a fresh challenge from a new customer/partner/ISV and there is always a feeling in you deep down...