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I'm Out
11 January 07 02:16 PM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   
Today's my last day here at Microsoft, and as of now, this blog is locked down. But, my BizTalk party will continue over at http://seroter.wordpress.com . Thanks to all who have contributed, and see you on the other side. Technorati tags: BizTalk 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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Back In Town, And Commerce Server Best Practices Analyzer
12 September 06 05:54 AM | rseroter | 1 Comments   
Just returned from a pleasant 10-day vacation to London and Edinburgh and am ready to get back to work. A few musings ... If you live in the LA area, I recommend NOT using LA Limo Service for transportation. I got a call an hour before my pickup saying Read More...
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Compelling Article on Ray Ozzie and Microsoft Strategy
19 April 06 08:24 PM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   
Not integration-related from a BizTalk sense, but this article in Fortune about Ray Ozzie and the changes at Microsoft has a lot to do with integration of vision and products at this company. Just a fascinating read, and reassures me that I made the right Read More...
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Virtual Server 2005 R2 Now Free (And Supporting Linux)
03 April 06 09:55 AM | rseroter | 2 Comments   
Nice! We announced today (see HERE and HERE and HERE ) that Virtual Server 2005 R2 is a free download , and, will host Linux. I'm preparing some materials for an upcoming 5-day lab for SoCal customers, and we'll be building a BizTalk Server farm in Virtual 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 | 2 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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Nice Free AJAX Library from Yahoo!
15 February 06 07:44 AM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   
This has nothing to do with BizTalk, but I'm just really impressed with the new, free collection of AJAX utilities and controls that Yahoo! just made available. Solid utility classes (animation, drag-drop), and nice UI controls (calendar, treeview). I'm Read More...
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Couples Weeks Off, And Upcoming Topics
07 October 05 11:19 AM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   
So I'll be going dark here for a couple weeks as I head off on vacation (getting married, and no live-blogging of the honeymoon). However, I've got a few things queued up when I get back, including my experiences building J2EE web services to integrate 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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PDC05 - Day 1 SQL Service Broker Musings
13 September 05 03:44 PM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   
Attending the Building Distributed Asynchronous Applications with SQL Service Broker session at PDC05 and thought I'd share these notes .... Service Broker is for SQL Server applications The queues are actually database objects You can write these applications 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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MSN Virtual Earth Is Pretty Hot
25 July 05 08:00 AM | rseroter | (Comments Off)   
Enough about Google Maps (which is still darn cool), let's throw props at the MSN Virtual Earth guys! Very nice stuff. I like the ability to zoom in and out using my mouse wheel, and I actually was able to zoom in closer than with Google Maps. Also pretty Read More...
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