Scott Woodgate's OutBursts

previously posted with the labs but highlighting here because lots of folks keep asking me for it...

Oliver Rist wrote a column in his blog titled " What about BizTalk ?" Historically I haven't responded to these types of articles, but that's what blogging is supposed to be for - expressing your opinions and this seemed like a good article to respond...

How about a little: File-New-BizTalk Server Adapter Framework Wizard inside VS.NET This wizard makes it super easy to getting started with the adapter base classes by stepping you through the creation of both receive and send-side adapters in C# including...

I just remembered that the BizTalk Server 2004 exam isnow vailable at VUE centres ,that's proper english for "centers", starting today worldwide. The exam number is included in the "partner competency" number, partner's you know what I mean. It isn't...

Thanks for all the feedback that these were useful. What topics would you like to see covered that we didn't cover this time around. Please add your comments below.

Well over 5 years ago I joined the nascent BizTalk Server team. One of the reasons I came to Microsoft was because of the wide range of job roles available and yet I was just having too much fun with BizTalk Server to consider moving. Nevertheless, with...

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...

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...

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...

Alex is a super clever member of my team who is also coming along to giving some BizTalk Server sessions. He is giving the XML tools and BAM sessions but knows BAS intimately as well as the rest of the product and would love to talk with you. Available...

Just getting ahead of the game. When you install SP2 RC or later you will need to tweak a registry key for BizTalk Server to continue to work. The changes are because the SSO service uses RPC and the RPC service has been significantly locked down in XP...

Driven from your feedback last year there is a single connected systems infrastructure track including all the web services and integration stuff. I suppose you won't mind seeing BizTalk Server 2006 and we will see if we can oblige that request depending...

Get it here . I strongly recommend that everybody trys this in your test environments and then puts it into production. Along with the usual bug fixes provided in service packs you can expect up to a 10% performance increase in some scenarios. This is...

Sunny Seattle is not a myth. I should always plant grass seed on July 21st because to date it has rained exactly once since! Not so great on my grass but my vitamin D count is at an all-time high. I'm in a surf's up mood, of course there isn't much...

Lots of things are going on as always: 1. We completed the "Microsoft position on ESB" document. This will go to microsoft web sites shortly and is our official position. Get it here . In short if you are looking for "ESB" we can help you; but on the...

Well, if you are a New Zealander in the USA and you miss home then of course rugby is far more important than just about anything else. I've been loving the coverage on foxsportsworld for the last 4 years which makes up for my lack of physical presence...

We are making progress at scaling out the training. Any gold certified partner has access to 5 day course materials through www.msptr.com . If you provide training and want to let people know then go ahead and add to the comments of this thread. I'll...

Do you wake-up in the morning and create a few ports; run off to morning-tea while deployment occurs; throw together a few orchestrations in the afternoon and compose a business rule on your way out the door in the evening. Would you consider yourself...

An example of what I wrote about yesterday (untyped ports) is here . This example models a generic web service that can accept any type of XML document and put it into orchestration through a single receive port. Enjoy. On another note I'll be at TechEd...

I took the whole week off from work last week and the wet weather had a week off too! I was soooo proud of myself as I didn't read email once (ok once, but that was after an urgent phone call and under duress only). I stayed at home while my various relatives...

Is it KFC or Kentucky Fried Chicken? Well in that case legally it doesn't matter because the same company owns both the name and the abbreviation. Of course for marketing reasons they have swapped from the full-name to the abbreviation and back but that...

Whatsmore you don't need to wait until midnight to pick it up either :). As of now BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 2 is available at betaplace. We haven't updated ms.com yet (its coming) but the instructions are the same as the CTP . This time around there is...

There are lots of neat new features in BAM for 2006 including a brand new "out of the box" portal, BAM instrumentation for pipelines and alerts/notifications. Check out the details here . Our development team is working really hard, as in 7 days a...

Now you know why I've been having fun for the last 4 years. Thanks to all our customers the BizTalk Server business is booming. A little celebration of our anniversay is here . Meanwhile 1/2 my team is in Asia this week and last week launching our final...

I thought you might find these useful (courtesy of Aleksey Savateyev et. al.) The table below includes prefixes/suffixes that should be used when naming BizTalk 2004 orchestration types and send and receive ports. In addition, each prefix must be followed...