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Twin Cities BizTalk User Group Changes

skaufman — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:15:00 GMT

The Twin Cities BizTalk User Group is changing to become the Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group!

We are changing to encompass a broader set of technologies and ensure that we are keeping up with the current set of technologies and patterns.

The Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group sets out to build a community of developers and architects interested in Microsoft middle tier technologies to aid in the development of the members and evangelize these technologies within the Twin Cities.

The middle tier technologies cover products as well as patterns. The partial list of products that fall into our community include BizTalk, Dublin, Oslo, MSE, WCF, WF, MSMQ and Azure.

The patterns typically cover Business to Business (B2B), Application to Application (A2A), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), EDI, Business Process Management (BPM), Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) and cloud computing.

Twin Cities BizTalk User Group Meeting - January 15th, 2009

skaufman — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:58:00 GMT

If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday January 15th please join us for the next Twin Cities BizTalk User Group Meeting.

The meeting takes place at the Microsoft office in Bloomington from 6:00pm to 7:30pm.

Shawn Doty from RBA Consulting will be delivering a presentation on Exploring BizTalk 2009.

I will be speaking at the Omaha BizTalk User Group

skaufman — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:41:00 GMT

I will be speaking at the Omaha BizTalk User Group April 3rd 2008 on Team Development and Testing. This is taking place at the Microsoft offices.

If you are going to be around stop by and say hi.

Twin Cities BizTalk User Group Meeting - July 19th, 2007

skaufman — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:59:00 GMT

If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday July 19th please join us for the next Twin Cities BizTalk User Group Meeting.

The meeting takes place at the Microsoft office in Bloomington from 6:00 to 7:30

Andy Morrison, from Digineer, will be delivering a presentation titled 'Leveraging BAM in the real world'.

Twin Cities BizTalk User Group Website

skaufman — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:53:00 GMT

The Twin Cities BizTalk User Group website is up and running (it actually has been for a while - I am just way behind on my blogging).

The website can be found at www.mnbiztalk.com.

The site contains information about future presentations and future meeting dates. The site also contains lists of our past presentation topics as well as links to the presentations or additional material.

The site also contains one of the largest lists of BizTalk bloggers on the web.

Twin Cites BizTalk User Group Meeting - March15th, 2007

skaufman — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:43:00 GMT

If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday March 15th please join us for the next Twin Cities BizTalk User Group Meeting.

The meeting takes place at the Microsoft office in Bloomington from 6:00 to 7:30

Andy Schwarz, from Magenic, will be delivering a presentation titled 'BizTalk, MOSS and InfoPath...notes from the bleeding edge'

Twin Cites BizTalk User Group Meeting - November 16th, 2006

skaufman — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:11:00 GMT

If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday November 16th please join us for the next Twin Cities BizTalk User Group Meeting.

The meeting takes place at the Microsoft office in Bloomington from 6:00 to 7:30

I will be presenting on Business Rule Engines: Windows Workflow Rules vs. BizTalk Rules

Twin Cites BizTalk User Group Meeting - September 21st, 2006

skaufman — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:04:00 GMT

If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday September 21st please join us for the next Twin Cities BizTalk User Group Meeting.

The meeting takes place at the Microsoft office in Bloomington from 6:00 to 7:30

Scott Colestock will be presenting on Applying MST (Maximum Sustainable Throughput) to a Management/Operations Strategy

Here is a description of his talk.

"If you have dived into the BizTalk performance whitepapers or documentation on engine performance characteristics, you have encountered the phrase “Maximum Sustainable Throughput” (MST). MST describes the highest load of message traffic that a BizTalk system can handle indefinitely in production.

How can we define a management and operations strategy around these concepts, such that we can be less reactive in a production environment and more attuned to system health trend lines? How can we know empirically that a BizTalk system is approaching the point where additional servers should be added?

Ideally, we are able to leverage what we learn about a system during performance testing to create clear-cut operational guidance.

This talk will focus on what instrumentation is provided by BizTalk that will allow you to use an operations management tool (such as MOM 2005 or Operations Manager 2007) to determine whether an application is continuing to operate within its design limits – to move beyond just watching for saturated physical resources."

Twin Cities BizTalk User Group Meeting - March 16th, 2006

skaufman — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:16:00 GMT

If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday March 16th please join us for the next Twin Cities BizTalk User Group Meeting.

The meeting takes place at the Microsoft office in Bloomington from 6:00 to 7:30.

Andy Morrison will be the presenter and will be discussing Orchestration Concepts: Message Construction, Direct Binding and Configuration.

There will be a social hour afterwards as well.