Scott Woodgate's OutBursts

It feels like spring! I just ran around Greenlake and was honoured by the presence of a bald-eagle. Well spring, means spring cleaning on my blog. I want to see if I can categorize things better and link to more people who are doing cool things with BizTalk...

A. It asks you to define a Status element in the ActionSection: 1. Right-click the ActionSection node, click Insert Schema Node , and then click Child Field Element . 2. In the placeholder node that appears, type Status . it should be renamed...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/04/23/17TCbiztalk_1.html Tom Yager's excellent review of BizTalk Server 2004.

Say you have a web-service with a simple return type (such as an integer) and you want to consume that in an orchestration. For example your web-service might look like this: <WebMethod> function callme(mystring as string) as integer. When...

The Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is a vendor-neutral mechanism for describing the behavior of business processes. Originally created by Microsoft, IBM , and others, the latest version of this technology is currently being standardized by...

That was nice and timely wasn't it. Step by step instructions on how to use InfoPath SP1 with BizTalk Server 2004 (and a whole bunch of other InfoPath labs). Check it out here :

MSDN Webcast: Migrating from BizTalk Server 2002 to 2004 May 03, 2004 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Erik Leaseburg , Consultant, Microsoft Corporation With proper planning and execution, migrating a business application from Microsoft BizTalk®...

Before using these go listen to my BizTalk Server and InfoPath WebCast which shows them all in action and will help you if you have issues getting them set-up. Samples are included for: 1. InfoPath/Messaging - routing - routing and creating...

I'm working the weekend building up some samples that are a little easier to re-distribute. Update: Thanks to Stephane and Jeff I now have two pretty cool InfoPath/Email scenarios to go with the messaging, orchestration, rules, web-services and sharepoint...

Had hoped to get this one out on the 9th. Its up now here . Don't forget to get the updated SDK to use it (link below in the April updates entry). Oh and in case you are wondering it has a whole new section (III) covering BAM and BAS.

The BizTalk Server 2004 Management Pack is a set of instructions that define how to monitor and manage BizTalk Server 2004. This management pack enables you to: Identify and measure the health of the system. Monitor critical components and services...

If you are wondering why VS.NET doesn't let you debug, or why the web services wizard isn't working for you it is because the default you are on Windows Server 2003 and you installed Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS) and the default install of WSS “takes...

BizTalk Server Orchestration Designer for Business Analysts The Orchestration Designer for business analysts is a Visio based tool that may be installed independently from BizTalk Server. Business analysts can draw abstract business process in this...