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BizTalk SQL Adapter Debatching and MessageBox Dos and Don'ts
04 January 07 03:35 PM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   

I've posted a few things over to the new blog lately and thought I'd keep this blog in sync until it shuts down next week. First, I did a walkthrough of how do use the out-of-the-box BizTalk XML pipeline to debatch messages coming inbound from the SQL Read More...

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Leaving Microsoft ...
02 January 07 03:52 PM | rseroter | 2 Comments   

Next Thursday, 1/11/07 will be my last day at Microsoft. I've decided to take an "Architect" position with one of my customers in the Los Angeles area. It was a tough choice to leave my great colleagues and customers, but I'm fairly jazzed about the new Read More...

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Using BizTalk Server For Email Alert Bus
28 December 06 11:15 AM | rseroter | 1 Comments   

Just recently I had a customer ask me if they could use their existing BizTalk infrastructure to manage events that were spawned from their primary application. So, I built a small demonstration that I've outlined here. Basically, this company's primary Read More...

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Versioning Strategy for BizTalk Assemblies
19 December 06 04:14 PM | rseroter | 8 Comments   

I spent a bit of time today reviewing some best practices for assembly version in BizTalk applications, and wanted to also elicit community feedback. One of the first things that a new BizTalk developer is told when building up a BizTalk solution is to Read More...

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Transactions and Compensation Using BizTalk Server
06 December 06 01:47 PM | rseroter | 2 Comments   

After reading Charles Young's fantastic post today on BizTalk transaction compensation , I was finally inspired to write a post that's been on my blog "to do" list for 7 months. Specifically, I wanted to demonstrate simple compensation handling, and dealing Read More...

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Choosing the Right Integration Technology
29 November 06 11:28 AM | rseroter | 1 Comments   

Yesterday Irena Kennedy posted a great compilation of multiple sources which resulted in a big fat post outlining selection criteria for an integration solution. She summarizes choosing between SSIS, MSMQ, WCF, BizTalk, SQL Service Broker, and Host Integration Read More...

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Installing BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Beta 1
28 November 06 09:23 AM | rseroter | 5 Comments   

Yesterday I did a quick evaluation of the Beta 1 release of BizTalk Server 2006 R2, and thought I'd walk through the installation process and highlight some new things I noticed. The Beta 1 release looks to be for early adopters only, so there is no "public" Read More...

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MSDN Magazine Article on Custom BizTalk Adapters
17 November 06 04:07 PM | rseroter | 2 Comments   

Good article in this month's MSDN Magazine called Integrate E-Mail Processing Into Your Business Solutions . It covers a variety of topics, including the POP3 adapter, orchestration and some BizTalk plumbing. I also found the part on writing a custom Read More...

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BizTalk Property Schemas Separated From Associated Schemas
17 November 06 02:59 PM | rseroter | 3 Comments   

I caught a glimpse of something in the BizTalk Server 2006 Help the other day that surprised me a bit. The note said: If a property schema is associated with a message schema, then these two must be in the same BizTalk project. Separating property schema Read More...

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Using Only BizTalk Messaging With Request/Response On Both Ends
10 November 06 11:29 AM | rseroter | 2 Comments   

So is BizTalk *really* smart enough to allow me to do request/response operations on both sides of my process without an orchestration in the middle? I set out to prove this scenario out for myself and wanted to share the results. I want to see if I can Read More...

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Exposing BizTalk Web Services That Accept Generic Content
10 November 06 07:45 AM | rseroter | 2 Comments   

So what if I want to open up a BizTalk web services channel that accepts *any* XML message and then lets BizTalk Server figure out what do with that data? In considering ESB functionality, you often have the concept of generic ways to get messages "on Read More...

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Setting Promoted, Distinguished Fields on BizTalk Web Messages
09 November 06 10:25 PM | rseroter | 2 Comments   

Just finishing up a week-long 12-hour-a-day BizTalk workshop for my SoCal customers, and wanted to post a few bits I built for the class. This post focuses on using promoted properties and distinguished fields on web messages. One apparent challenge when Read More...

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BizTalk 2004 SP2, New BizTalk 2006 Books
26 October 06 05:02 PM | rseroter | 1 Comments   

So we've got BizTalk 2004 SP2 finally out today (hat tip: Tim Rayburn ) and you can see what's included in this must-install pack here ... List of bugs that are fixed in BizTalk Server 2004 Service Pack 2 . Also, I recently picked up both BizTalk 2006 Read More...

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Advanced BizTalk 2006 Web Services, Part II
23 October 06 10:19 AM | rseroter | 6 Comments   

In Part I of this two post series, I began a look at some advanced concepts around BizTalk-generated web services. In this post, we look at two additional concepts. In the last post , I demonstrated the following topics ... Using the "bare" and "wrapped" Read More...

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Advanced BizTalk 2006 Web Services, Part I
23 October 06 09:28 AM | rseroter | 1 Comments   

I've recently had the opportunity to build some advanced web services with BizTalk Server 2006, and wanted to show 4 interesting use cases over this 2 part blog post. Over these 2 posts, I will demonstrate and investigate the following topics ... Using Read More...

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