Yesterday Irena Kennedy posted a great compilation of multiple sources which resulted in a big fat post outlining selection criteria for an integration solution. She summarizes choosing between SSIS, MSMQ, WCF, BizTalk, SQL Service Broker, and Host Integration...

Yesterday I did a quick evaluation of the Beta 1 release of BizTalk Server 2006 R2, and thought I'd walk through the installation process and highlight some new things I noticed. The Beta 1 release looks to be for early adopters only, so there is no...

Good article in this month's MSDN Magazine called Integrate E-Mail Processing Into Your Business Solutions . It covers a variety of topics, including the POP3 adapter, orchestration and some BizTalk plumbing. I also found the part on writing a custom...

I caught a glimpse of something in the BizTalk Server 2006 Help the other day that surprised me a bit. The note said: If a property schema is associated with a message schema, then these two must be in the same BizTalk project. Separating property schema...

So is BizTalk *really* smart enough to allow me to do request/response operations on both sides of my process without an orchestration in the middle? I set out to prove this scenario out for myself and wanted to share the results. I want to see if...

So what if I want to open up a BizTalk web services channel that accepts *any* XML message and then lets BizTalk Server figure out what do with that data? In considering ESB functionality, you often have the concept of generic ways to get messages...

Just finishing up a week-long 12-hour-a-day BizTalk workshop for my SoCal customers, and wanted to post a few bits I built for the class. This post focuses on using promoted properties and distinguished fields on web messages. One apparent challenge...