Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) is a powerful feature in BizTalk server which enables to track the required data in business processes to monitor the progress. Purpose of this post is to share my learnings on using BAM. BizTalk comes with Tracking...

To provide industry-standard compliance with the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) 2009 Standards Release Guide specification, Microsoft has released BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT (A4SWIFT) 2009 Message Pack. This new...

Microsoft BizTalk Server is used to integrate enterprise applications and systems within an organization and across businesses, automate business processes and create business process management solutions. These processes may be short lived e.g. for seconds...

There is ton of information available for BizTalk Server 2009 performance optimization. I am attempting to summarize the content and links of what is available out there: BizTalk Server 2009 performance optimization guide : The BizTalk Server 2009...

The much awaited Microsoft BizTalk Server Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 is live and available for download here . The pack supports all 3 versions of BizTalk: BizTalk Server 2006, BizTalk Server 2006 R2, and BizTalk Server 2009. Version...

I am sharing some generic points based on my learnings, one should keep in mind while coding and designing BizTalk solutions. Here we go: · Follow standard naming conventions for BizTalk artifacts: This is one area which may seem a minor point in the...

Enterprise Single Signon component in BizTalk Server can be used to provide single signon capabilities, as the name suggests, where in the mapping of non-windows credentials can be done to windows credentials and so on. Ent SSO can also be used for storing...

SQL Server database replication is a set of technolgoes that allows to distribute or copy the schema and data from a database on one server to one or more servers in unidirectional or bidirectional manner. Replication is one of the many ways in which...

LINQ (Language integrated Query) is a new feature introduced in .NET Framework 3.5. LINQ makes the job of .Net developers easy for accessing the data in SQL, XML, ADO.Net data sets or any other objects. By using LINQ, a developer gets the ability to write...

Today, during the keynote address at Microsoft TechEd Developers 2007, S. “Soma” Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft Corp., announced that Microsoft will release Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 by the...

On 6th November, Microsoft announced Search Server 2008 Express, a new addition to enterprise search line up, which includes Microsoft Enterprise Server 2008 and SharePoint 2007 Server. This product includes powerful search features to search the content...

Useful blog entry from Paul Endrew on ugrading your .Net Framework 1.0 application to .Net Framework 3.5 application: http://blogs.msdn.com/pandrew/archive/2007/10/25/how-to-upgrade-from-net-framework-1-0-to-net-framework-3-5.aspx

Some of the important performance counters related to memory in SQL Server are: SQL Server Cache Hit Ratios : A consistent value below 90% indicates that more physical memory is needed on the server. Memory Object: Available Bytes : On a server...

Microsoft Popfly (internally code named Springfield) is a web site that allows users to create web pages, program snippets, and mashups using Microsoft Silverlight runtime and a set of online tools provided. Following 3 tools are included in Popfly, based...

SQL Server 2005 dynamically acquires and frees memory as required. Administrator does not have to specify how much memory should be allocated to SQL Server, although following options exist: Standard 32 bit addresses can map a maximum of 4 GB of...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 improvements can be classified into following 7 different technology areas: Develop Smart Client Applications :Visual Studio provides a new set of tools and classes which will enable developers and simplify the integration...

Visual Studio 2008 enables organizations to rapidly create more secure, manageable, and reliable applications that take adavantage of Windows Vista and Office 2007 System. 3 primary pillars of VS 2008 are: Improve Developer Productivity Manage...

Recently there have been lots of buzz around Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Along with this it has brought many other acronyms such as ESB, ESA etc. Let us understand what is SOA? SOA allows organizations to expand its existing business applications...

In today's world, most of the modern business processes, in some way, depend on software systems. To automate these business processes it is necessary to connect various software systems. Following things should be considered when integrating these systems...

Microsoft Silverlight is a web presentation technology which provides capabilities to deliver high quality videos, rich interactive applications for the web using .NET, across browsers including Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer and platforms such...

According to "Best Companies to Work For" survey conducted by Business Today in India, the software giant from Redmond makes a stunning entry at #1. Quite a feat for a corporation that runs six different units in India. Snapshot Total employees: 5...

SQL Server 2008 (code name 'Katmai') delivers on the Microsoft data platform vision by enabling organizations to run their mission critical applications. Following are the main qualities of the new platform: Trusted : In today's data driven world...