Richard Seroter - SoCal BizTalk Musings

Just a bit over a year since I started BizTalk blogging, so I thought I'd take 5 minutes and review the posts of the last year (126!?!) and try to find some highlights. Most Searched For Post. It's a pretty close tie between my series on...

We've just refreshed the Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 page on the main site. You've got data sheets, link to the full documentation and more. Adjust your day accordingly. Remember that while CS2k7 has been released to manufacturing, the general...

Just finished up a week-long POC for one of my favorite accounts up in north LA. Now that I have 6 spare minutes, wanted to post an update to my Business Rules Authorization Manager tool and note a really random BizTalk thing I came across this week....

There are a couple upcoming MSDN webcasts coming up that should be interesting to BizTalk architects ... Building Modern Software: Services, Workflow, and Identity - Presented by Dave Chappell from TechEd 2006 BizTalk Server: Strategy, Deliverables...

Commerce Server 2007 RC docs are online in MSDN now, and looking pretty good. Pretty comprehensive and showing some nice depth and improvement over the last release. I promise I'm not bored, but this is my 3rd post of the day. Lots of interesting...

I was recently inspired to spend some time digging into artifact-level security in the Business Rules Engine, and wanted to release a first take of my Rules Authentication Manager (RAM) tool. This post will dig into how it all works. I've included...

BizTalk 2006 R2 was announced this morning. This forthcoming update includes deep RFID support ("BizTalk RFID"), and, our own robust EDI/AS2 processing stack. We'll also include some tighter support for WCF and WF. Cool stuff. Check out the Press Release...

Hopefully I don't get read the riot act, but I just finished taking the beta BizTalk 2006 exam and wanted to share some thoughts. First of all, it's 72 questions, VERY heavy on business rules and BAM. Also lots of scenarios revolving around trading...

Just finished up a week of teaching a deep BizTalk 2006 course for local customers, and, taking a pleasant week-long vacation. In doing so, I've queued up a fat batch of topics to cover over the coming months. Here, I wanted to quickly point out...