There's virtually no BizTalk-related error that's more frustrating than exposing an orchestration as a web service, trying to call it, and getting the horrific "Internal Server Error" or "Internal SOAP Processing Failure". To make it even more fun, you...

I hadn't realized we released this publicly yet, but noticed this morning that the BizTalk Server 2006 Documenter is now available for you to download. See Paul's blog for the link. I love this tool. To be able to generate a CHM file containing...

We just released two great resources for BizTalk BAM aficionados. The first, BAM Frequently Asked Questions covers great topics like BAM tracing, common errors, maintaining the BAM databases and more. Good stuff. I really like the second doc...

During the same recent BizTalk POC I mentioned previously , I had the occasion to try and store rich HTML in a BizTalk schema for use in a Microsoft InfoPath RichTextBox field. I had to work a little magic, and thought I'd share that here. The...

Just noticed a brand new paper on Microsoft.com called BizTalk Server 2006 Comparative Adapter Study . It's a brief overview of performance of BizTalk 2004 adapters vs. BizTalk 2006 adapters. Highlighted here are the FILE adapter, MSMQ adapter...

I recently had a bit of time to figure out answers to some questions about how BizTalk handles promoted values in batches. Specifically, do promoted values from the "envelope" transfer to the "body", and what if you want to interact with those values...