Those of you that know me – know how much I enjoy the round ball game :-) Whilst not strictly related to my MS role – please bring the FIFA world cup to Australia!
http://www.australia2018-2022.com.au/
Hi all,
If you still have BizTalk 2004 in your environment, mainstream support ends in July 2009. In Australia, we have a partner who can do an assessment for you on what it may take to upgrade (if necessary). Email me if you want more info.
Migration tool released – if you want to consider using the BizTalk WCF adapters.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e68b8fd1-5c8a-499a-8237-4dc23a8342c5&displaylang=en
Overview
The WCF-based adapters shipped with the BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 are the recommended solutions to integrate various LOB systems with BizTalk Server. The Adapter Pack consists of LOB adapters for SAP, Siebel, Oracle DB, Oracle EBS, and SQL Server. They are built on the WCF LOB Adapter SDK framework. However these are not the first adapters to be released by Microsoft for integration.
The BizTalk Adapters for Enterprise Applications is a suite of adapters based on the older BizTalk Adapter Framework and was released with BizTalk 2006 and BizTalk 2009. Among others, this suite has adapters for SAP, Siebel, and Oracle DB systems. BizTalk Server has a native SQL adapter.
With the release of BizTalk 2009, all these adapters are deprecated in favour of the WCF-based adapters in the Adapter Pack as the latter set has more features and support more LOB versions.
Have you tried Bing yet?
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Register by going to http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/r2.aspx and we will let you know when the CTP ships.
It’s a busy month ;-)
Overview
"Oslo" is the code name for Microsoft’s next generation modeling platform. This CTP includes:
- "Quadrant" – a visual modeling tool
- "M" – a modeling language
- Repository – a SQL Server 2008 database to store models
- UML domain models and a loader to import UML diagrams in XMI format into the repository
- CLR domain models and a loader to import .NET assemblies into the repository
New in this CTP: - The "Quadrant" modeling tool. Use Quadrant to browse and edit models in a repository database.
- Domain models for the UML 2.1 specification encompassing Use Case, Activity, Class, Sequence, Component diagrams, profiles and templates.
- An XMI importer supporting the 2.1 specifications, and covering the diagrams identified above.
- A domain model and loader for System.Runtime.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=827122a5-3ca0-4389-a79e-87af37cbf60d&displaylang=en
Just noticed that we had released to web the BizTalk 2009 guide for Hyper V. Get it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0582bc67-0bef-4a0a-99cf-4408a111c4e3
Let me know what you think….
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The BizTalk Server Best Practices Analyzer performs configuration-level verification by reading and reporting only. The Best Practices Analyzer gathers data from different information sources, such as Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes, SQL Server databases, and registry entries. The Best Practices Analyzer uses the data to evaluate the deployment configuration. The Best Practices Analyzer does not modify any system settings, and is not a self-tuning tool.
http://www.microsoft.com.au/teched
It’s on again – 8-11th September on the Gold Coast. *Nice*!
If you were not able to get to the SDC Open day in Sydney earlier this month – you can watch the webcasts here: http://www.microsoft.com/australia/services/microsoftservices/sdc_openday.mspx
Thanks to my colleague Ron Dunn for bringing this MSDN article to my attention:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd263442.aspx
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The Microsoft.com Engineering Operations (MSCOM Ops) team is continuously searching for ways to improve the performance of its Web sites, which include Microsoft.com, the Web site for the MSDN® developer program, and TechNet. These Web sites are complex, distributed applications with Microsoft® SQL Server® database platforms that attract an enormous amount of traffic from users around the world. Site performance and user experience are two of the principal metrics that the team uses to evaluate its own success.
In late summer of 2008, MSCOM Ops initiated extensive replication performance testing, comparing SQL Server 2005 running on Windows Server® 2003 with SQL Server 2008 running on Windows Server 2008. By using both operating environments to replicate data between a server located in Tukwila, Washington, and another located in Blueridge, Virginia—a distance of approximately 3,000 miles—the team discovered that SQL Server 2008 running on Windows Server 2008 yielded up to 100 times faster performance without requiring any expensive wide area network (WAN) acceleration hardware.
Encouraged by these impressive results, the team decided to test replication of “live” content from its MSDN database in Redmond, Washington, to a remote data center in Dublin, Ireland. The performance enhancements in SQL Server 2008 running on Windows Server 2008 enabled the team to successfully replicate this content and demonstrate that WAN-based geo-replication is feasible in a real-world scenario. Further, the MSCOM Ops team used this capability to cut page-to-load times on its MSDN Web site by approximately 33 percent, resulting in a dramatic user experience improvement in Europe.
Now, in addition to providing an improved Web experience to people around the world, MSCOM Ops benefits from enhanced business continuity. And, with solid evidence of the feasibility of WAN-based geo-replication, MSCOM Ops plans to expand its implementation of this solution.
This white paper details the business challenges that prompted the MSCOM Ops team to explore WAN-based geo-replication, describes the testing the team performed, documents the test results, and conveys insights and conclusions based on these results.
