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BizTalk Posters Updated for BizTalk 2009

The MS Technical Editors responsible for the BizTalk posters have recently updated some of the posters for BizTalk 2009.  Check them out at the following URLs: · BizTalk Server 2009 Scale-out Configurations Poster · BizTalk Server 2009 Database Infrastructure Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2009 5:43 PM by Nabeel Prior | 2 Comments
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BizTalk 2006 R2 Certification

In a recent internal discussion I was enlightened to the fact that there is a BizTalk Server 2006 R2 certification exam available.  This exam is available at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exams/70-241.aspx , so get going and be one of the Read More...
Posted Friday, January 30, 2009 8:38 AM by Nabeel Prior | 4 Comments
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BizTalk 2009 Public Beta and ESB Guidance V2 CTP Available!

After a very valuable and interesting TAP (Technology Adoption Program) process, a public beta of BizTalk Server 2009 is now available at https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=218 . In unison, the CTP of the ESB Guidance Toolkit v2 is Read More...
Posted Monday, December 08, 2008 6:24 PM by Nabeel Prior | 3 Comments
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“Dublin” and “Oslo” in the words of a Technologist

David Chappell is both a technologist and an amazing wordsmith.  In his most recent whitepaper, titled A First Look at WF 4.0, “Dublin”, and “Oslo” , he does an amazing job of detailing the new release of WF, and the new “Dublin” and “Oslo” technologies.  Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:28 AM by Nabeel Prior | 1 Comments
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BizTalk Challenge Scenario 1 - Solution

Quite a while back I posted what was to be the first in a series of BizTalk Scenarios that could be used as a practical learning aid.  I was hoping to have the solution for this scenario uploaded within a month of that post, but alas it was not to Read More...
Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 12:22 PM by Nabeel Prior | 1 Comments
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Update on Wednesday's User Group Meeting

The guys from K2 have provided some more detail on what they will be showing us during the User Group meeting on Wednesday: Home Improvement Retailer – Integrated Sales Order Solution. Charles (Sales Officer) creates a new sales order. Customer Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 05, 2008 9:59 PM by Nabeel Prior | 1 Comments

Sending an HTML Email without an Orchestration

There is plenty of information on the Net relating to being able to send an HTML email from BizTalk using a dynamic SMTP port and an orchestration (see here and here ).  At a client I needed to achieve the same objective, but without the use of an Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 11, 2008 3:44 PM by Nabeel Prior | 6 Comments
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BizTalk Server 2009 == BizTalk Server 2006 R3

Some very interesting news around BizTalk today.  Not only was there the announcement around BizTalk's future on the BizTalk Server Roadmap page, but there was a Q&A session with Oliver Sharp , the General Manager for the Connected Systems Division.  Read More...
Posted Friday, September 05, 2008 4:24 PM by Nabeel Prior | 1 Comments
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ESB Management Portal Installation Error

Anyone who has worked with the ESB Guidance Toolkit will tell you that the complex and troublesome installation of the toolkit is one of the most common reasons for the toolkit not getting wider coverage and usage.  The next release of the toolkit Read More...
Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 7:02 PM by Nabeel Prior | 3 Comments
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Biztalk Challenge ScenArio 1

As the first in what I hope will be an on-going series of scenario challenges, I have uploaded a pack of information to the South African BizTalk User Group website ( http://biztalkug.co.za/media/p/61.aspx ).  This pack includes a scenario overview Read More...
Posted Monday, June 23, 2008 2:12 PM by Nabeel Prior | 2 Comments
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Challenge: Execute a Map and Return the Result, WITHOUT an Orchestration

The Issue Earlier this week Bennie Wentzel , a developer from a customer I was engaged with last year, posed me a question which went something like this: If I have a synchronous web service receive port, how can I return the result of a map on this receive Read More...
Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 7:37 PM by Nabeel Prior | 1 Comments

South African BizTalk User Group Website Finally Up!

After much promise, and many requests, the web site for the South African BizTalk User Group has now been launched. Please pay us a visit at http://www.biztalkug.co.za/ . Thanks to Ryan Crawcour for taking the initiative on this, and thanks to all those Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 15, 2008 11:41 AM by Nabeel Prior | 1 Comments
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BizTalk Toolbox: BizTalk MessageViewer HAT Plugin

As a BizTalk developer I have come to rely rather heavily on a variety of tools to assist with various aspects of developing, deploying, documenting and testing BizTalk solutions.  The latest addition to this toolbox is the BizTalk MessageViewer Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 1:00 PM by Nabeel Prior | 1 Comments
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Latest BizTalk Hotrod (Issue 4) is now Available!

For those that are aware of the BizTalk Hotrod magazine will know how informative and jam-packed this resource is. Those of you who are new to the Hotrod will marvel at the amount of content available in this freely available download. Here's some more Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 2:43 PM by Nabeel Prior | 0 Comments
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XMLValidatingReceive Pipeline Clarification

In my previous post on the default behaviour of the XMLReceive pipeline with respect to validating a message against a schema I detailed the creation of what I termed the "XMLValidatingReceive Pipeline".  In response to this posting, Payal Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 10:38 AM by Nabeel Prior | 0 Comments
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