BizTalk Server 2006 (and R2): Set Failed Message Routing
While developing BizTalk projects I frequently end up developing mini-tools to automate small and/or repetitive administration tasks. One of these, which I recently generalized, I use to turn on...
INT05 and INT06 @ TechDays 2008 – SlideDecks
A few days back I delivered a presentation on Microsoft's ESB Guidance Package at TechDays 2008 in Lisbon. The session included demos of the ESB and BizTalk 2006 R2....
ESB Guidance – Some notes on the installation
I've been playing with the ESB Guidance for some time now, in preparation for the session I'm presenting at TechDays 2008 on that topic. While doing this, I had...
"Journey to the Center of the Cloud" – Internal Presentation
Last Friday I delivered an internal presentation on the overall concepts of cloud computing, talking about what some of the players in this space are doing: SalesForce and it's "Platform-as-a-Service"...
Architect Forum: BizTalk Services – The Internet Service Bus
This last Wednesday I presented a session at the Microsoft Architect Forum 2007, held at the Lisbon Casino (a great venue), with ~100 architects attending. The overall topic of...
Custom Property demotion – Using IDocumentSpec and IPropertyAnnotation
Sometimes the property demotion rules are very difficult to apply in the Xml Assembler Pipeline. There are some limitations: • The Biztalk context dependency forces that data must be in...
BizTalk 2006 R2 RTM
Although with very little publicity (!?), BizTalk 2006 R2 RTM'd 2 weeks ago. This new (evolutionary) version includes a very interesting set of new features, including an RFID server,...
BizTalk RFID: notes
After finally getting around to setting up VMWare Workstation with a BizTalk 2006 R2 Beta2 + BizTalk RFID, I did several experiences with the Phigets RFID reader and the...
Take a Look at These…
I'm not about to start a series of "daily links" post, but here are recent links I find relevant: BizTalk 2006 R2 will come out in September,...
TechDays 2007: BizTalk R2 Session
I delivered my first session at TechDays today, an overview of the new features of BizTalk Server R2. Topics I covered included: BizTalk RFID (I can't wait for...