August 2005 - Posts

Paper On Choosing the Appropriate Microsoft Integration Technology
31 August 05 05:48 PM | rseroter | 2 Comments   
We've pushed out a paper to MSDN that highlights when to use which technology for integration. Called Understanding Microsoft Integration Technologies - A Guide to Choosing a Solution , this white paper lays out recommendations for when to use Indigo, Read More...
End To End Email WIth BizTalk On A Single Dev Box
30 August 05 12:15 PM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   
Often for either isolated BizTalk development or BizTalk demonstration purposes, the need arises to do a full email scenario on a single physical or virtual machine. Did you know that you can utilize the standard Windows Server 2003 plug-in SMTP and POP3 Read More...
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Commerce Server 2006 Updates
29 August 05 07:39 AM | rseroter | 7 Comments   
Just in case you haven't checked out the Microsoft Commerce Server site in a while, we recently posted a data sheet for the Commerce Server 2006 product which highlights major new areas and throws some screenshots at you. We also have a separate page Read More...
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New Whitepaper on Building BizTalk Adapters
22 August 05 03:38 PM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   
In case you didn't see it, we just recently published a good paper on building your own BizTalk adapters. The paper on MSDN, Writing Effective BizTalk Server Adapters , is a fairly thorough look at all the things you'll need to consider when building Read More...
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Links To Help Understand Host Integration Concepts
22 August 05 07:43 AM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   
There are estimates that as much as 70% of overall business data resides in IBM host systems, thus making Host Integration Server such an interesting part of an (SOA) architecture. Being able to interact with the data and applications that reside in those Read More...
BizTalk Orchestration Designer for Business Analysts Improvements
17 August 05 08:31 AM | rseroter | 3 Comments   
It's almost a crime that the Orchestration Designer for Business Analysts (ODBA) tool for BizTalk Server 2006 has been downloaded only half as much as the BizTalk Server 2006 Beta bits. It has a number of improvements that BizTalk developers should check Read More...
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SMTP Fun With BizTalk Server 2006
15 August 05 07:23 AM | rseroter | 2 Comments   
Doing anything particularly fancy with the SMTP adapter in BizTalk Server 2004 often involved invoking helper classes (like SMTPUtils) or the like. I spent time this weekend (yes, this weekend) working with the SMTP adapter for some material I'm presenting. Read More...
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Throttling Improvements in BizTalk Server 2006
11 August 05 02:50 PM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   
Managing the performance thresholds of a BizTalk Server 2004 machine posed a few challenges that have been addressed very nicely in the upcoming BizTalk 2006 release. I've been thinking about performance lately after checking out my man Larry Beck's Throughput Read More...
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Upcoming HIS and SQL Server 2005 Webcast
09 August 05 12:48 PM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   
If you're thinking about integrating your IBM mainframe data with SQL Server 2005, check out this webcast on Thursday. The webcast, TechNet Webcast: Integrating Existing Information in IBM DB2 using SQL Server 2005 and Host Integration Server , is by Read More...
Building and Executing a BizTalk Single Sign On Scenario
09 August 05 11:01 AM | rseroter | 5 Comments   
The Enterprise Single Sign On functionality that ships with BizTalk Server is fairly interesting, but can be tricky to set up. Below I walk through the steps I went through to get a fully-functional SSO demonstration running. The very first thing to do Read More...
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New BizTalk Performance Testing Tool
07 August 05 08:28 PM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   
I like to keep up with what my former co-workers at Avanade are up to, and Larry Beck has just released a great BizTalk performance test utility. Called the Throughput and Capacity Tester , this bad boy allows you to submit a steady load of messages and Read More...
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Using BAM In BizTalk Server 2006 With SQL Server 2005
05 August 05 08:40 AM | rseroter | 1 Comments   
If you are trying to do Business Activity Monitoring using BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 1, and, SQL Server 2005, you may run into the same issue that I did. You'll probably notice that when you walk through the Configuration Manager, you cannot create the Read More...
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BizTalk Unleashed Appendix Released
03 August 05 04:39 PM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   
Hat tip to Oddur Magnusson for noticing that the mysterious Appendix C of the BizTalk Unleashed book has finally been relased to the web. If you're looking for some good information on using our native adapters, go grab it. Read More...
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Additional Step for BTS 2006 Config Using Pre-June SQL CTP
03 August 05 11:29 AM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   
In case you are installing BizTalk Server 2006 on a machine with a SQL Server 2005 CTP older than June, here's a tip. When I was trying to deploy BAM configurations, I kept getting the error "The SaveToSQLServer method has encountered OLE DB error code Read More...
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Microsoft BizTalk Technology Adapter Purchase
02 August 05 04:44 PM | rseroter | 2 Comments   
So we can finally talk about the iWay technology purchase that will enable us to provide 8 BizTalk application adapters to our customers. Applications that you can now connect to include JD Edwards, Oracle, Peoplesoft, Siebel, Tibco and more. I think Read More...
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