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It looks like the next release of BizTalk Server will be Version 2009 instead of 2006 R3, as previously indicated. It’s on schedule for release in the first half of 2009, and I would expect to see a CTP version sometime before the end of 2008. Updated
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Scenario: I have a need to process two transformations back-to-back. For example, I have Schema1, Schema2, and Schema3, and I have two maps: Schema1 -> Schema2 Schema2 -> Schema3 Schema1 is our canonical schema, meaning this is the schema
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First, I'll admit the title of this post isn't entirely accurate, because you can't do the grouping and sorting I'm about to show using the BizTalk mapper. We'll be overriding the XSLT for a BizTalk map, so therefore it might be more appropriate
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It seems I keep putting this list together again and again, so I think it deserves a "home" of its own. I'll try to keep it up to date. If you're a developer who would like to learn about developing applications on BizTalk Server, but
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The BizTalk Customer Advisory Team and BizTalk UE team are pleased to announce the first edition of the “ Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Hyper-V Guide ”. The Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Hyper-V Guide is the third installment in a series
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San Francisco Bay Area Connected Systems User Group On June 26, 2008, please join us for the next scheduled Microsoft Bay Area Connected Systems Division User Group meeting. This month’s topic will be “Patterns for Delivering Enterprise Class Services”.
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Recently I was working with a customer and giving a quick overview of how to retrieve data from SQL Server within BizTalk. We had a stored procedure that would return the first "unfetched" row, lock the record, set the "fetchstatus" and return the data
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A number of you (my customers) have asked about the support of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and the 2008 wave of products (Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio). Most of us expected a service pack release of some sort to update BizTalk to support these
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The question has come up more than a couple of times: How do I monitor my Send Ports or Receive Locations if I don't have MOM (or monitoring solution of your choice) configured for my BizTalk servers? I've always been positive the answer was in
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God help you if you rely on my blog as your only source of BizTalk information. =) I'm a bit behind, but here's something everyone should know about: The BizTalk Server Operations Guide . Check it out. The idea for the guide originated with Microsoft
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I've heard about the possibility of another BizTalk TS position (my job) opening in SoCal sometime in the next few months. Got BizTalk skills? Email me: chris.romp [at] microsoft.com.
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A customer and former coworker of mine recently sent me a link to this blog post , whose author asks the question "When to use BizTalk vs. roll your own solution." Good question! BizTalk Server allows developers to quickly develop loosely-coupled, services-oriented
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To all three of you who read this blog (hi, mom!), if you're in the Los Angeles area tomorrow night Brian Loesgen of Neudesic and I will be presenting on BizTalk Development Best Practices at the Los Angeles Connected Systems User Group . This is
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A new BizTalk poster is available, in case you're collecting the series . [ via ] This one covers BizTalk Scale-Out Configurations, from simply adding servers to your BizTalk group to fully clustering your MessageBox database on a SQL cluster. Scaling
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BizTalk Hotrod just published a third volume. This one has fixed a lot of the readability problems with past issues (good luck reading sample code in volumes 1 and 2). =) Grab it from BizTalkHotrod.com or you can grab the 18MB PDF from this direct
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