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June 2005 - Posts

BizTalk 2004 "Commando" Training course - BizTalk Assembly Replication and Viewer

BizTalk Server 2004 has a very cool architecture that allows it to balance the processing of a workload across many BizTalk Servers when they are configured to function as a group. When we use this "Group", or "Farm" configuration, all the BizTalk Servers Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 14, 2005 7:20 PM by martywaz | 3 Comments

BizTalk 2004 "Commando" Training course - Installing Windows Sharepoint Servcies Batch File

Installing BizTalk Server 2004 sometimes entails installing Windows Sharepoint Services, specifically if you want to use Business Activity Services (Trading Party Mgmt, BAM portal, etc..). However, I see more and more folks configuring it improperly, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 14, 2005 5:57 PM by martywaz | 5 Comments

New White Papers...

We've been at it again. If you haven't seen these, check out these new white papers: BizTalk Server 2004: A Messaging Engine Overview . This document describes the architecture and internal workings of BizTalk Server 2004 as a messaging engine. BizTalk Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 09, 2005 9:30 PM by martywaz | 3 Comments

Tech-Ed Announcements - BizTalk 2006 Launch

A lot of folks heard at the Tech-Ed Keynote address on June 7 that we will have a joint launch of Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 on November 7, 2005. Please do NOT confuse this with the RTM (Release to Manufacturing) date Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 09, 2005 8:26 PM by martywaz | 3 Comments

BizTalk 2004 "Commando" Training course - BETTER Dynamic Mapping

I just posted a pretty cool sample of how you could call a map dynmically in C#. Very nice. However, it has a drawback (besides being officially unsupported ). Specifically, t he way I used TransformBase in the sample will result in regenerating a dynamic Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 08, 2005 8:18 AM by martywaz | 0 Comments

BizTalk 2004 "Commando" Training course - Dynamic Mapping

Every wonder how you could possibly reuse the XSLT that we store in BizTalk maps? Every wonder how you could pick and chose which map to execute in your code from the compiled BizTalk Assembly. Well there is a way! The type containing the map xslt is Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 08, 2005 12:44 AM by martywaz | 1 Comments

BizTalk 2004 "Commando" Training course - More posts to come...

Done for the night....I'll post a lot more later this week... Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 07, 2005 1:19 AM by martywaz | 0 Comments

BizTalk 2004 "Commando" Training course - App Domains

Remember, during the course we went over App Domain configuration for BizTalk. The key to creating App Domains with BizTalk, and hence being able to use configuration files with your project is to edit the BTSNTSvc.exe.config file located in the BizTalk Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 07, 2005 12:52 AM by martywaz | 1 Comments

Compiled BizTalk 2004 Help File (.chm)

I find this very handy for my laptop that does NOT have BizTalk Server 2004 installed on it. Its a compiled version of the online docs....a convenient chm file. Its updated to SP1. Enjoy. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 07, 2005 12:36 AM by martywaz | 1 Comments

BizTalk Server 2004 SP1 should be MANDATORY for production environments

I can't believe I see more and more recent BizTalk implemenations in production WITHOUT SP1. With all the issues that we fixed in SP1, any new BizTalk Server 2004 project should simply never go into production without SP1. I can't stress that enough. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 07, 2005 12:22 AM by martywaz | 0 Comments

BizTalk 2004 "Commando" Training course - Decks and Samples

Here's the powerpoint decks we used for some of the extended sessions. Some of these have added sections on all the perf tuning recommendations we layed out. There's quite a bit that you have to consider when working in a farm scenario. Also, you'll find Read More...
Posted Monday, June 06, 2005 11:40 PM by martywaz | 4 Comments

BizTalk 2004 "Commando" Training course in Santa Monica, CA

Hi Everyone.......well...this is a first! I never thought I'd actually post something to my own Blog. I think I set this up 6 months ago or so, but after seeing all the wonderful content already being posted to blogs, I thought to myself, what could I Read More...
Posted Monday, June 06, 2005 11:17 AM by martywaz | 0 Comments
 
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