February 2004 - Posts

• Makes you proud to be a Kiwi

  Peter Jackson et. al take the show at the Oscars with all 11 for 11. That puts LOTR right up there with Ben Hur and some ship movie. A great start to what is going to be a huge week! While Peter Jackson was self-deprecating of his previous efforts on Read More... Posted Sunday, February 29, 2004 9:19 PM by scottwoo | 8 Comments

• BTS2004 Delivery Notifications

  Scenario: You create a business process that receives a message and send it to multiple target systems. For whatever reason the send from the business process fails ie. the message exists the business process and a later pipeline or adapter fails. This Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2004 1:30 PM by scottwoo | 10 Comments

• Anyone feeling like a good old fashioned competition?

  Ali-Frazer; Coyotte-Roadrunner; NZ-SA Rugby; Hillary-Everest. All great competitions. I just love competitions as they bring out the best in people. Sometimes this is because the essence of a competition is that it gives you a goal to accomplish; sometimes Read More... Posted Monday, February 23, 2004 4:35 PM by scottwoo | 3 Comments

• MSDN BizTalk Server 2004 Developer Blitz Week

  I promised an update later today, but I didn't expect to get the information that fast. Here is the first developer treat: As part of the launch there will be an MSDN BizTalk Server Developer Blitz with no less than eight web casts packed with information Read More... Posted Thursday, February 19, 2004 8:48 AM by scottwoo | 6 Comments

• BizTalk Server 2004 Launch

  As you may have read in the press we are launching the product on March 2nd. I just got back from France where I was briefing analysts and doing some presentations. As part of our launch we have several treats for the developers out there. More on that Read More... Posted Thursday, February 19, 2004 8:39 AM by scottwoo | 2 Comments

• BizTalk Server will split up your documents for you.

  Lots of people have asked me how you split up a documents. You don't have to write code for this it is a built in feature of the parsers in BizTalk Server. For example check out this sample .txt document. It has a header (Northwind Shipping) and multiple Read More... Posted Friday, February 06, 2004 6:59 AM by scottwoo | 10 Comments

• BTS2004 explorer extension

  Hi from the South of France where we are running another hard-core training course on BizTalk Server 2004. Today's tip: BTS2004 has a very cool windows explorer extension. To use it: (it isn't turned on by default) navigate to \program files\microsoft Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2004 6:07 AM by scottwoo | 8 Comments