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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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Windows Workflow in ASP.NET Apps
19 March 06 02:02 PM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   
Very very nice article in this month's MSDN Magazine that goes into great depth explaining how to use Windows Workflow from an ASP.NET application (or service) . I may have to re-jigger my Sharepoint-WF-BizTalk post from a few weeks back using this updated Read More...
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Using Business Rules Engine "Update" for Forward Chaining
13 March 06 03:19 PM | rseroter | 3 Comments   
Fitting that my 100th post is on the same topic as one of my first , the Business Rules Engine. The other day I had a customer ask me about a problem they had while executing a business rule on a repeating element where the result was not what they expected. Read More...
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Microsoft RFID Platform Offering Explained
26 February 06 06:01 PM | rseroter | 1 Comments   
We just published a paper on the upcoming Microsoft RFID offering, and it's actually fairly informative. It covers the basic background, ideal applications, issues with current solutions, and finally a dive into our platform (which is currently in beta) Read More...
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Windows Workflow + SharePoint 2003 + BizTalk Scenario Built Out
17 February 06 01:29 PM | rseroter | 9 Comments   
So I had a use case from a customer to build a sample using BizTalk Server, Windows Workflow Foundation, and Windows SharePoint Services 2003. It was an interesting journey, and wanted to show how I got all these pieces to play nicely. Before diving into Read More...
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Debating Our Rules Engine
17 September 05 12:45 PM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   
If you're someone deeply interested in rule engine algorithms, and specifically Microsoft's implementation of the Rete algorithm in the Rules Engine that ships with BizTalk Server 2004, then you absolutely must read this facinating study by Charles Young Read More...
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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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References for Setting up AD, DNS For a Farm
01 July 05 02:24 PM | rseroter | 1 Comments   
In order to really grasp how a product like BizTalk Server works, you really need to build out a small farm of servers. It's such a great way to drive home the fault-tolerance and load balancing points. So, to keep fresh, I'm building out another farm Read More...
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Applying InfoPath SP1 Security Tweak
20 June 05 09:15 PM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   
So obviously you would never do the following in a "real" environment unless you were sure of the ramifications, but I was recently building InfoPath (SP1) forms to use with a SharePoint and BizTalk demo when I got the following error trying to either Read More...
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Getting rolling ...
08 June 05 02:50 PM | rseroter | 1 Comments   
Greetings. I expect to use this space to discuss best practices, tips, code, product roadmaps and more around BizTalk Server , HIS , and Commerce Server. I've been working with BizTalk Server since the beta of BizTalk Server 2000 nearly five years ago Read More...

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