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...

Folks, I recently ran into this and decided to share this with the larger community... If you wanted to do a READPAST on the table but have on 'Order By' in your SQL query, it somehow does not return any row if there is an existing lock on a row (although...

We have just announced the release of the BizTalk Server Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 that provides monitoring for BizTalk Server 2006, BizTalk Server 2006 R2, and BizTalk Server 2009. Click here for more details.

Folks, When you run the BizTalk HL7 end-to-end tutorial, you may not get the desired output if the input file i.e. ADT^A03.txt is in the incorrect format. Make sure that there are only 5 lines in this text file. The lines start with "MSH", "EVN", "PID...

If you are playing with HL7 tutorials and cannot find the C :\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk 2009 Accelerator for HL7\SDK\MLLP Utilities folder, most likely you have not yet installed the MLLP Test tools. Go to the Control Panel, and then select Microsoft...

Folks, If you are installing an earlier version of HL7 Accelerator on BizTalk 2009, you will probably reach upto the name of the DB (default BTAHL7) and on clicking next it would just sit there and do nothing. You need to install the BizTalk 2009 Accelerators...

Hi Folks, If you want some guidance on Unit Testing Schemas & Maps in BizTalk 2009, manage BizTalk services through WMI, BizTalk Dynamics AX Integration and How to throw Typed Faults from Orchestrations (that are published as WCF Service) - checkout...

Folks, Mick has connected with his fellow BizTalk experts from across the oceans to come out with this amazing webcast series on BizTalk 2009 - check it out!

I got a query from another customer with regards to this - this has nothing to do with BizTalk 2009 - check if you installed the VS after BizTalk server? You need to install VS before BizTalk. Alternatively, you could choose to install the Developer tools...

Remove the 2 DTS packages: EDIReportingActivityDefs & AS2ReportingActivityDefs from the bm.exe command line which do not get automatically removed when you un-install the previous version: C:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009\Tracking>bm...

Folks, I have been getting a fair few queries regarding books on SOA & BizTalk. Richard Seroter has released a new book on this front called “SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009”. Check this out as it helps you to implement SOA strategies for BizTalk...

Folks, Just heard from Farpoint that their Excel adapter now supports BizTalk 2009 & VS 2008: http://www.fpoint.com/biztalk/default.aspx