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August 2006 - Posts

Does BAM Require Local Installation of SSIS? No!

Today I helped a customer install BizTalk Server 2006, they did not have much experience with BizTalk so I was assigned to assist them. We followed the BizTalk Server 2006 Installation and Upgrade Guides documents, mostly the multi-server version but Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 8:46 AM by mattlind | 3 Comments
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Webcasts on BizTalk Scenarios

Kevin Lam talks about BizTalk Server 2006 End-to-End Scenarios: Business Process Management and Richard Seroter talk about End-to-End Scenarios: Creating Service-Oriented Solutions with BizTalk Server 2006 . It's interesting how one finds resources when Read More...
Posted Monday, August 28, 2006 10:40 AM by mattlind | 0 Comments

Follow Up: Business Process Versioning - Manually GAC new Version

In my post on versioning business processes I deliberately avoided to comment on a technique for versioning that are sometimes discussed. I'm talking about updating the orchestration by GACing a new version manually, i.e. not using BizTalk's deployment Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 8:35 AM by mattlind | 0 Comments

Business Process Versioning - Updating Running Business Processes

Continuing my coverage of best practices and patterns in the Business Process Management (BPM) scenario I examine how the problem of versioning the business process has been addressed. Even though I have been able to base much of the content from a presentation Read More...
Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 9:30 AM by mattlind | 8 Comments

Whitepaper Comparing BizTalk 2004/2006 Adapter Performance

Richard Seroter's blog made me aware of a new MSDN whitepaper that compare performance in adapters BizTalk 2004 vs. 2006. You can download the whitepaper here While comparisons between the two versions are interesting I find the most interesting thing Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 8:30 AM by mattlind | 0 Comments
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Windows Live Writer Beta Announced (incl. Mini-Review)

Finally the public Beta of Windows Live Writer has been announced, this tools has been available in pre-Beta builds for a few weeks internally to I'm going to give a few impressions from my personal usage. You can download Windows Live Writer at http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/9/a/f9a19f2d-cec4-4a25-9b0b-eb9655ea7561/Writer.msi Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 13, 2006 9:43 PM by mattlind | 0 Comments
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Notes on .NET 3.0 (WinFX) Tour Video

MSDN Showtime has a show related to .NET 3.0, the show is called .NET 3.0 (WinFX) Tour and was recorded in Rotterdam (Netherlands). The show covers Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), InfoCard and Windows Workflow Read More...
Posted Friday, August 11, 2006 8:30 AM by mattlind | 0 Comments
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Accessing and Listing Message Context Properties in Pipeline Components

Stephen Kaufman has in a blog listed all message properties that you can access when you are in a pipeline component. I have recently needed to use some of these properties so I wrote the code below which lists all context properties. The call to ctx.Read Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 9:00 AM by mattlind | 0 Comments
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Microsoft has acquired SysInternals

I just found out that MS has acquired SysInternals and WinInternals, it was announced on July 18th. SysInternals has for years been an independent site providing great tools, with focus on system level monitoring and diagnostics. My favorites tool is Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 8:30 AM by mattlind | 0 Comments
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Details on Direct Bound Ports

I'm currently working on a post about how the BPM scenario show-cases versioning of business processes. As part of this I looked up Kevin Lam's blog as I know that he has worked with the BizTalk Scenarios, particularly the BPM scenario. What I found was Read More...
Posted Monday, August 07, 2006 10:00 AM by mattlind | 0 Comments

Store config-info in BizTalk SSO

Introduction I have started looking the Business Process Management (BPM) scenario and this time I will talk about its usage of BizTalk's Single Sign-On (SSO) to store configuration information. The SSO is normally seen as something that is not directly Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 01, 2006 10:07 AM by mattlind | 1 Comments
 
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