May 2006 - Posts

Virtual Machines, BizTalk Configuration and DTC Madness
19 May 06 08:07 AM | rseroter | 9 Comments   

Looks like an instance of my stupidly has actually positively impacted the BizTalk 2006 documentation. I'm teaching a class here in SoCal next week, and just finished building a server farm sitting in Virtual Server 2005 R2 . I've got myself a nice Active Read More...

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New BizTalk Server 2006 Whitepaper on Custom Adapters
16 May 06 01:41 PM | rseroter | 2 Comments   

Check out this brand spankin' new whitepaper from our BizTalk team called Developing a Transactional BizTalk Adapter Using the Microsoft Base Adapter Classes . This 50-page behemoth goes through everything you need to know for designing, building and Read More...

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BizTalk 2006 Beta Exam Prep Guide Available
12 May 06 03:23 PM | rseroter | 15 Comments   

The BizTalk 2006 exam is now in Beta. Check out the new preparation guide . Check out Bryant's blog for the promo code you can use to take the test for free. I just signed up to take the test on June 1st, and if I fail, so help me. Seriously, if I don't Read More...

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BizTalk Aggregation Pattern for Large Batches
08 May 06 09:24 AM | rseroter | 12 Comments   

There are a few instances of Aggregator patterns for BizTalk Server, but I recently had a customer who was dealing with a very large batch, and therefore the existing patterns were insufficient. So, I threw together a sample that showed how to handle Read More...

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BizTalk 2006 Whitepaper on Clustered Solutions
04 May 06 11:50 AM | rseroter | 1 Comments   

There have been a few great posts about the new BizTalk TechCenter and Development Center , but I did want to highlight a brand new doc I that really like about BizTalk solution clustering. Check out Improving Fault Tolerance in BizTalk Server 2006 by Read More...

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BizTalk Correlation of Untyped Messages
01 May 06 07:38 AM | rseroter | 4 Comments   

I received a great BizTalk question from a customer the other day, and wanted to build out the solution I proposed. Their primary problem was how to correlate an untyped message back to a running orchestration. There are a few ways you can try and do Read More...

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