Scott Woodgate's OutBursts

Just as well there are New Year's resolutions because it has been almost a full month on my blog! I guess I better make up for it in terms of the content of this post. If you read the first item below you'll know why I've been busy... BizTalk Server Roadmap...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Version 6.0.142 is now on the connect site. Go get it . The Release candidate includes one new feature, PXE boot. In addition it address a number of issues including installation on Windows 2003 as a host; Audio in Vista; DVD support for Vista installation;...

MSDN Webcast: Getting up to speed with BizTalk Server 2004 for the Visual Studio .NET Developer MSDN Webcast: BizTalk Server 2004 Orchestration for the Visual Studio .NET Developer MSDN Webcast: BizTalk Server 2004 Architecture...

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...

In my 5 years in the business, today is the today I'm most proud of. Not because we are finished with BizTalk Server 2006 - we are not - but we are making lots of progress having released our second CTP build that works on the RTM versions of SQL and...

The last 6 months have been a lot of fun. On the downside I've attended exactly zero conferences - ok my wife doesn't think that's a downside. On the upside I've been working in areas I haven't had the opportunity to over the past 5 years. Specifically...

. BizTalk Server 2004 now integrates with SharePoint as follows: With the newly released BizTalk Server Adapter for SharePoint libraries customers can now use BizTalk Server to receive and send messages from the SharePoint library infrastructure...

If you enjoyed my blog please go here for more :). I'm having fun working in Windows Planning. More on that when I have something interesting to say.

Several people have asked me whether there will be a build of BizTalk Server that works on the RTM bits of SQL Server and Visual Studio .NET for the Launch. That's the plan. It won't be beta 2 because we are still working on our quality metrics versus...

In no particular order of course but let's start with Surveys. If you are NOT residing in the United States or Canada (aka you are from the rest of the world) then we want to hear from you and you might win a cool MP3 player as a result. Read below for...

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...

Jesus Rodriguez has created a super cool adapter for BizTalk Server 2006 that talks to SQL Service Broker in SQL Server 2005 so that you can use SSB as a transport for SQL to SQL communications within a broader BizTalk Server ecosystem. His adapter is...

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...

Now the cat is out of the bag on a couple of areas (Workflow and Adapters) where we need some more incredibly motivated, clever, articulate folks to help us make a real impact on the business in the following two roles: 1) Senior Workflow Technical...

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...

Seeing as though I've answered it in email a few times let's do it for everyone. This error message can mean one of two things: 1. You don't have a schema deployed with a typename that matches the instance document coming through the system (that's...

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...

This whitepaper is a collaborative effort between members of the MSMQ, "Indigo", SQL SSIS, SQL SSB, SQL Replication, Host Integration Server and BizTalk Server teams. The whitepaper describes the core use-cases for these technologies and when to use which...

It was pretty noisy, because the blue elevator was right outside. Sound like a page out of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? See for yourself in the latest video on theserverside.net where Paul Andrew (Technical Product Manager for Windows Workflow Foundation...