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Saturday, June 06, 2009 6:16 PM

Quick Tips: DTA DB Purge without Archiving

BizTalk provides an out of the box job that can be configured to archive and purge BizTalk databases. But sometimes you might be in a situation where archival not necessary and you might as well save that time and simply purge the tracking data. If you
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Saturday, June 06, 2009 3:38 AM

Required NTFS permissions for BizTalk File Adapter connecting to network share

When connecting to a network file share using BizTalk File adapter, you might've noticed that just specifying "Modify" rights is not sufficient. In simple configuration terms, you would need to have a minimum of "Full Control" or the BizTalk Host Service
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Saturday, June 06, 2009 3:19 AM

Trouble setting the BizTalk Backup Job?

Recently, I faced some of the issues below when configuring BizTalk Disaster Recovery at one of my customers. The BizTalk solution was implemented on HyperV and since earlier clustering was not supported for SQL 2005 (BTW, it is supported now), we had
Posted by Sanket Bakshi | 3 Comments
Wednesday, February 04, 2009 6:36 PM

IE8: Web Slices – Keep yourself updated!

Another amazing feature that IE 8 has pulled out of the hat is – the Web Slices. Today, a very common way of keeping the visitors updated about what's happening on your website is using the RSS. However, maintaining these feeds usually require the websites
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009 7:58 PM

IE 8: The onset of an amazing browsing experience

OK. So there has already been a lot of buzz about the amazing features that IE 8 now has to offer for the ultimate browsing experience. There are some articles out there which go ga-ga over the awesome feature set and then there are others who say that
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Friday, January 30, 2009 9:01 PM

Need a list of server patches?

Most of the Windows machines use the automatic updates to install the latest updates from Microsoft. Recently, we ran into an issue where the Biztalk configuration started failing on one of the servers. Having to investigate if this was caused by a patch,
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 8:16 PM

The Bloggers Guide to "Connected Systems"

There is a new bloggers guide recently published by Alan Smith . This guide provides a good overview of the next wave of the connected systems technologies. It starts with the WCF & WF 4.0 and makes its way to the Biztalk 2009, Oslo, Dublin and finally
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Friday, August 15, 2008 11:37 PM

BizTalk 2006 R2 Pre-requisites CAB Files

I had earlier compiled this list for BizTalk 2006 pre-requisites CAB files here . Now that we have BizTalk 2006 R2, it needs a complete separate list of pre-requisites. The CAB files for 2006 dont work with 2006 R2. So here is a list of those for R2 (in
Posted by Sanket Bakshi | 3 Comments
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:13 AM

India to introduce Mobile Number Portability

In a landmark decision for the Indian telecom industry, the Department of Telecom has decided to introduce wireless Number Portability in India. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mobile_numbers_get_mobile/articleshow/2536732.cms It will be definitely
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Friday, September 28, 2007 10:43 AM

Understanding window handling of IE Modal Dialogs

One of the things that I was working on in last couple of months was to do with Internet Explorer. One of the things was to explore what are the different ways in which I can host a web page within my windows app. But still interesting was the part that
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 6:24 PM

I am Alive

Well, just if some of you are wondering about what happened to the mere insignificant mortal who used to vent his rants in this space, let me tell you, I am still very much alive and kicking. Yeah I haven't been really active writing the stuff that I
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Saturday, March 31, 2007 2:47 PM

Consuming webservices from within BizTalk

BizTalk 2006 allows some really good interacting with webservices. If it is a simple webservice, we can very well consume it by adding a reference to it and then consuming it using the orchestrations. Here are some interesting scenarios that I encountered
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Monday, February 19, 2007 7:41 AM

Creating public orchestrations

I am currently working on one of the Biztalk projects that contains a lot of lengthy orchestrations. In order to split them in manageable chunks, we are making intensive use of the call orchestration and start orchestration shapes. As long as the orchestrations
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007 4:41 PM

Adding Environment Specific Binding Files from Command Prompt

Biztalk 2006 provides the btstask utility to carry out most of the deployment operations from command prompt. However, the help available at the command prompt does not talk anything about adding environment specific binding files. You can get elaborate
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007 12:37 PM

Alice in Wonderland

I just love what technology has done to our lives. I had never in my life thought that I would be able to read "Alice in Wonderland" the original version of Lewis Carol in his own writing. Microsoft has just launched a version of the Turn the Pages section
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