A Technology Influencer's musings

A blog exploring the various learning's I have in my day to day role at Microsoft. Currently I'm a technology strategist in the Enterprise Products team and most of my blogs focus on what I think it takes to do that job well.

Change in Role, BizTalk Roadshow and BizTalk 2010 Certification

  So after 5 great years being a technology specialist for connected systems, I've decided to...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 03/29/2011

CRM 2011 Integration How to Video #1: BizTalk On-Premise to CRM 2011

I recently participated with our MCS Canada team on a large BizTalk 2009 and CRM 4.0 integration...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 03/09/2011

Local Case Study for BizTalk 2010 and B2B

When selecting a new technology platform, everyone loves to know the platform has already been...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 12/09/2010

BizTalk 2010 has been released

Many of you have been waiting for this, and BizTalk 2010 has just been released to manufacturing. It...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 09/23/2010

Using StreamInsight to Monitor SQL Profile data for Events in SQL Server

Nice project put together by one of our MVPs. He’s used the StreamInsight CEP tool to monitor data...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 08/06/2010

Welcoming a new citizen to the blogosphere and thinking about “Back-room” programmers

During my years in the IT world I’ve been fortunate enough to meet ton of really intelligent...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 06/29/2010

Application Infrastructure Virtual Launch Event

Our Connected Systems platform encompasses a number of technologies including BizTalk Server,...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 05/10/2010

Error during configuration of the ESB toolkit 2.0

I recently helped a client debug an exception they were getting when they tried to run the ESB...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 04/29/2010

Handling Issues with the ESB Toolkit 2.0 Samples on 64 Bit Systems

If you’re trying to install the ESB Toolkit 2.0 samples on a 64 bit environment, then you have...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 04/19/2010

Videos www.Cloudcast.net

Hey, my ESB Toolkit videos have found a new home. They’ve made their way over to www.cloudcasts.net...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 02/17/2010

The webcast that Ofer and I ran last week “Improving Business Agility with the Enterprise Service...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 02/16/2010

Host Integration Server 2006 – Service Pack 1: Now Available

Wow, it must be the week for Service Pack announcements. First we see the BizTalk 2006-R1 SP and now...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 02/03/2010

BizTalk 2006-R2 SP1 Now Available

Folks… I admit that I’ve blatantly copied this from the BizTalk Server Team Blog. Just trying to...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 01/29/2010

I’m Co-Presenting an MSDN Webcast on Business Agility with the ESB

On Feb 11th, I’ll be co-presenting an MSDN Webcast with Ofer Ashkenazi (Senior Technical Product...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 01/21/2010

ESB Toolkit How to Video #8: Routing to Azure Based Services

Welcome to #8 in my series of ESB Toolkit How To Videos. If you haven’t already seen the previous...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 01/11/2010

Webcast – Building a Demand Driven Supply Chain

Update Dec 3, This event is now available “On-Demand” at On Demand URL:...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 11/30/2009

My ESB Toolkit How-to Videos are now on MSDN

Hi all. I’ve always used Skydrive and this blog to host my ESB Toolkit how-to videos but I have had...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 11/26/2009

Webcast - Integration Concerns for Healthcare Organizations

Update Nov 31, 2009 : This webcast is now available on demand at...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 11/23/2009

Technology Updates from PDC 2009 and BizTalk 2009-R2

So PDC is over and boy did we get a lot of announcements with regards to our Connected System’s...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 11/23/2009

PDC & Source Code for ESB Toolkit How To Videos

Since I started releasing the ESB Toolkit how-to videos, I’ve had several people ask me for the...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 10/28/2009

SCOM Management Pack for BizTalk 2009 is Available.

To all you folks who have been waiting for the new Management Pack for BizTalk 2009 to be released,...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 09/01/2009

“Pro BizTalk 2009” Book is Finally Available

Yeah! Pro BizTalk 2009 is now published and available. It was an interesting project to be involved...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 08/25/2009

ESB Toolkit How To Video #7: A SharePoint Adapter Provider

Welcome to #7 in my series of ESB Toolkit How To Videos. If you have not seen the previous videos, I...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 08/05/2009

ESBT Toolkit How To Video #6: Performance Metrics using Built in BAM

Welcome to #6 in my series of ESB Toolkit How To Videos. If you have not seen the previous videos, I...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 07/23/2009

ESB Toolkit How To Video #5: Including Custom Orchestrations in Itineraries

Update: Sorry folks, the first link I posted for the video was incorrect. I have updated it now:...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 07/17/2009

ESB Toolkit How To Video #4: Dynamic Itinerary Resolution

Update: After I posted this originally, I was notified that my video did not contain any audio!...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 06/17/2009

ESB Toolkit How To Video #3: Itinerary Resolution in the Bus

Hi folks Here's video #3 in my "ESB Toolkit How To" series. In the last video (found here) we built...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 06/15/2009

ESB Toolkit - Life After Codeplex

So the ESB Toolkit is no longer going to be release through codeplex. So where do you register bugs...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 06/12/2009

ESB Toolkit How To Video #2: Service Composition

Hi everyone, it was quite a long time since I posted the first "How-to" video (found here), but I...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 06/12/2009

ESB Toolkit 2.0 - Finally Here!

All the other BizTalk bloggers have probably already beaten me to this, but I still thought I'd...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 06/09/2009

Disabling Itinerary Encryption in the ESB Toolkit 2.0

Those of you that worked with the CTP of the ESB Toolkit 2.0 will notice a new feature in the final...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 06/08/2009

Goodbye ESBG? Hello ESBT???

Yes indeed, the ESB Guidance is going to experience a name change once version 2.0 is released later...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 06/05/2009

BizTalk 2009 Book and ESB Guidance

Some of you might be familiar with George Dunphy's "Pro BizTalk 2006" book that was released a...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 04/14/2009

My SOA Conference Session on ESB is online

I had a chance last month to speak at the Microsoft SOA Conference about the latest version of the...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 02/27/2009

ESB Guidance 2.0 Screen Videos: Part 1 - Basic Routing

So I've been speak a lot about version 2.0 of the ESB Guidance and I thought I'd better get some of...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 02/18/2009

Busy travelling, busy speaking…

  So, I’ve been booked into the Microsoft 2009 SOA conference in Redmond at the end of this...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 01/06/2009

Content from the Canadian Connected Systems Conference

We've been to Vancouver and Toronto so far and lots of people have been asking about the...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 11/05/2008

The Canadian Connected Systems Conference 2008

Canada’s Connected Systems Road show: Can’t make it to PDC but would like to hear more about BizTalk...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 09/16/2008

How to implement retries on BizTalk ESB Off-Ramps

I'm sitting in the Vancouver airport reflecting on a very successful and interesting 2 day deep dive...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 06/09/2008

A Web based version of the BizTalk Rules Composer

As part of a proof-of-concept I was working on last year, we needed to show that the BizTalk...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 05/10/2008

Follow up to ESB Guidance Training Class

We had a great day yesterday at the Microsoft Canada office with over 50 people attending our ESB...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 04/17/2008

ESB Guidance Hands On Labs

Update: I've removed the attached lab for now while we rebundle it up with the other materials used...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 04/16/2008

Announcing free training on the ESB Guidance (Canada only)

The concept of Service Oriented Architecture and the Enterprise Service Bus is huge topic for many...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 03/24/2008

Microsoft ESB Guidance: Error - Host restarting every minute

We'll I just spent about three hours tonight fighting with this issue, so I thought I'd post about...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 02/01/2008

Using the ESB Guidance - Installation Process and Checklists

Many people are eager to get their hands on the new Microsoft ESB Guidance for BizTalk and to start...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 01/22/2008

Microsoft's RFID Solution Days

The Connected Systems Divisions has announced an exciting new event that developers interested in...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 01/14/2008

Canadian Business Process/SOA Conference Documents

People have been asking, so here they are. I've attached all of the presentations that were...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 11/29/2007

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 installation or configuration fails when you download the CAB files that contain the dependency software

Saw an interesting note come through and thought forward it out. BizTalk Server 2006 R2 installation...

Author: Peter Kelcey Date: 09/07/2007

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