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BizTalk lessons from the field

Hints, tips and best practices on the use of BizTalk in the real world

Purging archived BAM data

BAM is one of the most underutilised features of BizTalk, but when it is used it can provide very...

Date: 10/22/2013

Custom XML Validator for Throwing Multiple Errors

When applications / systems integrate with BizTalk via published WCF-based web services I often...

Date: 02/16/2011

BizTalk Posters Updated for BizTalk 2009

The MS Technical Editors responsible for the BizTalk posters have recently updated some of the...

Date: 02/04/2009

BizTalk 2006 R2 Certification

In a recent internal discussion I was enlightened to the fact that there is a BizTalk Server 2006 R2...

Date: 01/30/2009

BizTalk 2009 Public Beta and ESB Guidance V2 CTP Available!

After a very valuable and interesting TAP (Technology Adoption Program) process, a public beta of...

Date: 12/08/2008

“Dublin” and “Oslo” in the words of a Technologist

David Chappell is both a technologist and an amazing wordsmith.  In his most recent whitepaper,...

Date: 10/28/2008

BizTalk Challenge Scenario 1 - Solution

Quite a while back I posted what was to be the first in a series of BizTalk Scenarios that could be...

Date: 10/20/2008

Update on Wednesday's User Group Meeting

The guys from K2 have provided some more detail on what they will be showing us during the User...

Date: 10/05/2008

Sending an HTML Email without an Orchestration

There is plenty of information on the Net relating to being able to send an HTML email from BizTalk...

Date: 09/11/2008

BizTalk Server 2009 == BizTalk Server 2006 R3

Some very interesting news around BizTalk today.  Not only was there the announcement around...

Date: 09/05/2008

ESB Management Portal Installation Error

Anyone who has worked with the ESB Guidance Toolkit will tell you that the complex and troublesome...

Date: 08/11/2008

Biztalk Challenge ScenArio 1

As the first in what I hope will be an on-going series of scenario challenges, I have uploaded a...

Date: 06/23/2008

Challenge: Execute a Map and Return the Result, WITHOUT an Orchestration

The Issue Earlier this week Bennie Wentzel, a developer from a customer I was engaged with last...

Date: 06/16/2008

South African BizTalk User Group Website Finally Up!

After much promise, and many requests, the web site for the South African BizTalk User Group has now...

Date: 06/15/2008

BizTalk Toolbox: BizTalk MessageViewer HAT Plugin

As a BizTalk developer I have come to rely rather heavily on a variety of tools to assist with...

Date: 05/27/2008

Latest BizTalk Hotrod (Issue 4) is now Available!

For those that are aware of the BizTalk Hotrod magazine will know how informative and jam-packed...

Date: 05/22/2008

XMLValidatingReceive Pipeline Clarification

In my previous post on the default behaviour of the XMLReceive pipeline with respect to validating a...

Date: 05/22/2008

BizTalk Does Not Validate My Message?!?!

The ability to rigidly define the content of a data field is an essential element in any structured...

Date: 05/14/2008

BizTalk 2006 R3 is coming!

With the amazing wave of new platforms (Windows Server 2008, .NET Framework 3.5, Visual Studio 2008...

Date: 04/22/2008

JHB, South Africa: BizTalk Server 2006 Deep Dive Invitation

BIZTALK SERVER  2006 DEEP DIVE For a limited time only, Microsoft South Africa is offering this...

Date: 04/22/2008

Prodigal BizTalk Scheduled Task Adapter returns

After a lengthy absence from the BizTalk Community, the BizTalk Scheduled Task Adapter is once again...

Date: 04/22/2008

BizTalk Deep Dive Coming to JHB!

You asked, and we listened! Following on from a number of requests for the South African BizTalk...

Date: 04/03/2008

Easy Brain Teaser 2: Tricky Equation

Difficulty Level: Easy What must you do to make the following equation true? 81 x 9 = 801

Date: 03/11/2008

Obscure Error: AddressFilter mismatch at the EndpointDispatcher

While testing the WCF-WSHttp receive adapter this week I ran in this very interesting, and rather...

Date: 03/07/2008

Easy Brain Teaser 1: Quick Chores

Difficulty Level: Easy Two children have the following chores to do, before they will be allowed to...

Date: 02/29/2008

Switching a Published WCF Service between WSHttp and BasicHttp

When using the BizTalk WCF Service Publishing Wizard to create WCF services a number of files and...

Date: 02/26/2008

BTS.MessageType = https://Nabeel#HelloWorld

Hi, and welcome to my blog. For those of you who don't know me: my name is Nabeel Prior. I have been...

Date: 02/22/2008