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I'm a big fan of the BizTalk deployment framework, because it makes deployment so easy, repeatable and reliable because it automates a lot of manual actions. In my current project I'm working with EDI, so I also have to work with parties and agreements. Of course I wanted to embed this in the...
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Yesterday we had a special Dutch BizTalk User Group meeting. The guys from the BizTalk product team were in The Netherlands because of the BizTalk summit tour and they came by to talk about BizTalk. Three presentations were given about the upcoming release of BizTalk Server 2013: one overview and two...
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With the announcement of BizTalk Server 2013 Beta Microsoft also announced the next minor version of the ESB Toolkit: v2.2 My experience with the previous versions of the ESB Toolkit was that the installation procedure was complex hence preventing people from using it. Microsoft already announced that...
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This week Microsoft released the first public downloadable beta of BizTalk Server 2013, which is scheduled to be released H1 2013. Curious about the changes in the installation procedure, I decided to grab a Windows Server 2012 VHD , Visual Studio 2012 and SQL Server 2012 to create a base setup for BizTalk...
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Tonight Microsoft announced the public download of BizTalk Server 2013 beta. I’m not going to relist the features because, they are perfectly described here on the blog of the Microsoft BizTalk server team . Formerly this release was known as BizTalk Server 2010 R2, but it was rebranded with a...
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I'm working on some system engineering documentation for my current customer and of course I’m using the BizTalk Server 2010 Operations Guide as a reference for this. One of the tools is the BTSAssemblyChecker tool which is mentioned here " Checklist: Performing Monthly Maintenance Checks "...
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Every experienced BizTalk developer knows that the SSO store is a good place to safely store configuration information. It is secure, distributed and can be updated without having to dive into configuration files (but too bad the host instances have to be restarted after a change before it is picked...
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Application integration is all about exchanging messages and messages can only be exchanged if both the sender and receiver know what to expect from each other. In some branches the standardization of messages and their format is already going on for a while. Examples are: Financial (SWIFT) Automotive...
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In January this year I participated in a SOA architect workshop and after 5 exams I officially became certified SOA architect. The certification was issued by SOA schools which is an initiative of the well known SOA author Thomas Erl. It was a very interesting course which discussed concepts I already...
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Back in December 2011 Microsoft released the first CTP of the Azure Service Bus EAI/EDI. It showed what direction Microsoft is heading with bringing BizTalk like functionality to the cloud. Or to quote Microsoft: “Windows Azure Service Bus EAI and EDI Labs provides integration capabilities for the Windows...
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We all know Microsoft is putting an enormous amount of effort in their cloud initiative called Azure. It started with compute and storage but in the mean time it has grown and more and more products are released in a cloud version before the on-premise version is released. An example is Microsoft Dynamics...
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Here we go, some important stuff about dates.....(it's not only BizTalk related) I had a very simple scenario. Webservice Receives a request (with several datetime fields in it) Send the received message to SQL via the WCF adapter For some obscure reason some datetime values originating from the...
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It took a while but now I can proudly announce the release of v3.0 of the BizTalk Software Factory ! This version supports: BizTalk Server 2010 Visual Studio 2010 BizTalk Deployment Framework 5 BizUnit 4 BizTalk Solution Instrumentation Framework Opposed to the BSF versions for BizTalk 2006 and BizTalk...
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Today I stumbled upon a really nice BizTalk admin tool. (thanks google reader) Have a look at it >>here<< It's a kind of Silverlight BizTalk Administration console with quite a few extra's. Really good work !
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BizTalk is a great tool but sometimes the output is a little unreadable because of the number of namespaces in a document. This post is related to a previous post where I had to import a zillion schemas . Once I had those schema's imported I could map them but the ouput looked as the picture below...