BizTalk Server 2013 has been released and made available for general audience last month. One of the compelling new feature is the REST Support . REST support in BizTalk Server 2013 is offered through the WCF-WebHttp Adapter . Many developers have been waiting for this features for the last couple of...

SQL Server is essential for BizTalk Server. To support BizTalk pub/sub architecture a database is key to publish messages and to cater for subscriptions. I recently sat down with database administrators at a customer explaining the role of SQL Server in a BizTalk group. When all the BizTalk features...

We're continuing our Monday series, " Monday - Community Interview ". Today it is Mandi Ohlinger ! I met Mandi face to face last year during the BizTalk Summit in Redmond. We had long conversations on the TechNet Wiki and BizTalk. Now it is a great honor for me to interview her for the Monday Series...

Windows Azure is a platform containing many services. For instance the Windows Azure Service Bus , which has been one of the first services offered through Windows Azure. It went under the name BizTalk Services first before it was rebranded to .NET Services, subsequently AppFabric Service bus to its...

Microsoft offers REST support in BizTalk Server 2013 through the WCF-WebHttp Adapter . This has been anticipated for a long time by BizTalk developers. A majority of the services in the cloud is REST based. When exposing a public API over the internet to handle CRUD operations on data REST has now generally...

The year 2012 has almost come to an end. In my view it has been it a great year for us in the BizTalk community. This year the number of TechNet Wiki articles on BizTalk grew exponentially to over a hundred . Not only the number of articles increased also the number of contributors . My inspiration to...

This week a BizTalk Summit was held at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond. The event was organized by the Microsoft BizTalk Server Product Group. During the summit the upcoming BizTalk Server 2013 was on the spotlights. Some of the BizTalk community members and Microsoft employees that have contributed...

Today's featured article is BizTalk + WF/WCF, Better Together from Trace Young . Summary All versions of BizTalk Server use a publish/subscribe messaging engine architecture. In a publish/subscribe architecture, all messages that flow through BizTalk Server are first published to the MessageBox...

We're continuing our Monday series, " Monday - Community Interview ". Today it is Michael Stephenson ! Above Michael Stephenson, Microsoft Integration MVP from the United Kingdom. I have met Michael a few times and he is very passionate about Microsoft technologies. Like and many other BizTalk...

It has been a year ago when I contributed my first Wiki articles for the TechNet Wiki ( interview ). The articles were on BizTalk Server 2010 , BizTalk tooling , beginners guide , adapter pack and so on. Shortly after that I wrote a few more BizTalk related articles as I got inspired and enthusiastic...

We're continuing our Monday series, " Monday - Community Interview ". Today it is Dan Rosanova ! Dan Rosanova ( Profile ) above on the left hand side with his girlfriend Ola next to him, then Kent and Melissa Weare and me. This picture was taken in September when we all met up at Santa Monica Pier...

Recently Microsoft made some changes to the MVP program. The BizTalk program for instance has been retired and all BizTalk MVP's are moved to a new group called Microsoft Integration . This means that some of the BizTalk MVP's that contributes to TechNet Wiki are now Microsoft Integration MVP's. All...

As TechNet Wiki Ninjas we sometime share the stage to promote BizTalk Server. This year we have been talking to audiences in the UK, The Netherlands, Italy, Sweden and Norway. Me , Sandro Pereira , Lex Hegt and Tord G.Nordahl have been talking on BizTalk Server at events in these countries together with...

Welcome to our TNWiki Article Spotlight on Tuesday! A BizTalk developer will in his day to day job deal with many different formats. Many data interactions in the current industry still involve flat file formats, such as EDI, HL7, or custom formats that have been in operational use for quite a long...

Welcome to another Friday post with our International Update. The number of TechNet Wiki BizTalk articles have been growing the last couple of months. Before I started contributing there were around a few dozen articles. However that number has changed thanks to increasing number of community members...

Welcome to our TNWiki Article Spotlight on Tuesday! Testing your solution is an important aspect during development. This accounts for many different types of development whether it is a program, service, portal or integration solution. An integration solution for instance can be developed with BizTalk...

Six months ago I wrote a post on Wiki-Ninjas on Technology: BizTalk Server . Now I like to give you an update of what has happen in the BizTalk space last six months. A lot has changed as the number of articles have increased from little of 40 to 100 today. The future roadmap of BizTalk has become more...

Welcome to our TNWiki Article Spotlight on Tuesday! I usually write up a lot about BizTalk Server. Through my personal blog , magazines, and the TechNet wiki (see BizTalk Server resources on TechNet Wiki ). However I am not the only one. Others in the BizTalk community and with Microsoft have contributed...

What is the story on Microsoft's Integration Stack and how important is the role of the TechNet Wiki? Over the years the Microsoft integration stack has grown from on-premise technologies and products like BizTalk Server, WCF Services, SQL Server Integration Services, Host Integration Server, Windows...

Welcome to Tuesday's Wiki Article Spotlight ! I usually write up a lot about BizTalk Server. Through my personal blog , magazines, and the TechNet wiki (see BizTalk Server resources on TechNet Wiki ). However I am not the only one. Others in the BizTalk community and with Microsoft have contributed...

We're continuing our Monday series, " Interview with a Wiki Ninja !" Today's ninja is Tord G. Nordahl! Tord G.Nordahl ( Profile ) Who are you and what do you do? I'm Tord Glad Nordahl, a young guy from Bergen, Norway. I am married and have a little girl (soon father of two). I'm currently...

If you look at BizTalk Server from a certain viewpoint you can roughly divide it into three categories: deployment, development, and administration. This post will be on the first category, Deployment, and what has been contributed on TechNet Wiki so far by community members on this category. Now most...

If you look at BizTalk Server from a certain viewpoint you can roughly divide it into three categories: deployment, development, and administration. This post will be on the second category, Development, and what has been contributed on TechNet Wiki so far by community members on this category. Last...

Welcome to our weekly Top 10 Contributors on TechNet Wiki ! We've got 1 person over 100 this week! Keep it up! The top spot goes to Steef-Jan Wiggers ( interview , blog post ): From Steef-Jan's biography: Steef-Jan is IT architect/Consultant with over 13 years of experience as a...

We're continuing our Monday series, "Interview with a Wiki Ninja!" Today's ninja is Sandro Pereira! Sandro Pereira ( Profile ) Microsoft BizTalk MVP, Microsoft Partner (Devscope) What Sandro has to say about Wiki is an interesting thought... " ....beginning I was a little reluctant in...