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.

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

Date: 03/29/2011

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

Date: 03/09/2011

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

Date: 12/09/2010

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

Date: 09/23/2010

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

Date: 08/06/2010

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

Date: 06/29/2010

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

Date: 05/10/2010

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

Date: 04/29/2010

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

Date: 04/19/2010

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

Date: 02/17/2010

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

Date: 02/16/2010

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

Date: 02/03/2010

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

Date: 01/29/2010

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

Date: 01/21/2010

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

Date: 01/11/2010

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

Date: 11/30/2009

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

Date: 11/26/2009

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

Date: 11/23/2009

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

Date: 11/23/2009

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

Date: 10/28/2009

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

Date: 09/01/2009

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

Date: 08/25/2009

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

Date: 08/05/2009

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

Date: 07/23/2009

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

Date: 07/17/2009

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

Date: 06/17/2009

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

Date: 06/15/2009

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

Date: 06/12/2009

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

Date: 06/12/2009

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

Date: 06/09/2009

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

Date: 06/08/2009

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

Date: 06/05/2009

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

Date: 04/14/2009

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

Date: 02/27/2009

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

Date: 02/18/2009

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

Date: 01/06/2009

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

Date: 11/05/2008

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

Date: 09/16/2008

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

Date: 06/09/2008

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

Date: 05/10/2008

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

Date: 04/17/2008

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

Date: 04/16/2008

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

Date: 03/24/2008

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

Date: 02/01/2008

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

Date: 01/22/2008

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

Date: 01/14/2008

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

Date: 11/29/2007

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

Date: 09/07/2007

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