"The 80/20 rule" Monitoring a BizTalk application or group is about 80% or more of its entire life-cycle. Installing, configuring, implementation will consume around 20% or less. Therefore keeping a BizTalk environment healthy and stable is one of the most important tasks of a (BizTalk) administrator...

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...

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...

Integration of systems, applications and services can be done in various ways. If you look at the Microsoft stack you will find several technologies and products that enable you to build an integration solution. In such a solution you tie things together to support for instance a business process: process...

We're continuing our Monday series, " Interview with a Wiki Ninja !" Today's ninja is Steef-Jan Wiggers! Steef-Jan Wiggers ( Profile ) Microsoft BizTalk MVP, Microsoft Partner (Ordina) What Steef-Jan has to say about Forums and Wiki is very valuable... "...on BizTalk Forums [I] noticed...

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...

Welcome to our Monday interview with a Wiki Ninja ! Today we're interviewing... Lex Hegt . Besides being my friend Lex is the founder of the BizTalk Events website that tries to give you an overview in the worldwide organized BizTalk related events. Who are you, where are you, and what...

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...

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...

Hello and welcome everybody to our TNWiki Article Spotlight on Tuesday. My last two times I spent some time talking about Windows Azure HDInsight. Today I want to focus on another cool Windows Azure service - BizTalk Services. Just three days ago Steef-Jan created an article which walks you through...

We're continuing our Monday series, "Interview with a TechNet Wiki Author!" Today's author is Leonid Ganeline ! Leonid Ganeline is a Microsoft Integration MVP since 2007 and lives in Vancouver, Canada. My favorite quote of the interview I have done with Leonid is: "But the most important that...

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...

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...

Hello Community, Luciano Lima here today to update you on the latest news in the TechNet Wiki international community from Holland. The highlight of this week goes to Steef-Jan Wiggers who wrote several of articles about BizTalk Server 2010 and 2013. Website: http://soa-thoughts.blogspot...

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...

In October 2011 I started writing BizTalk related Wiki articles for the TechNet Wiki. There around 40 article's and it has now grown close to 200. That is a fivefold increase in number! In one word: Awesome! What the number of article will tell us that there is a lot of resources available about BizTalk...

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...

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...

Almost two years ago, November 2011, I started writing my first TechNet Wiki articles. The subjects were on BizTalk Server 2010 , BizTalk tooling , beginners guide , and the adapter pack . Immediately after my first releases of articles I was joined by Tord G. Nordahl and Sandro Pereira . Both like myself...

We're continuing our Monday series, " Monday - Community Interview ". Today it is Howard S. Edidin ! Howard is a veteran in the industry and still going strong. I really appreciate Howards opinion of the TechNet Wiki: "You do not have to be a MVP or expert in order to post an article. An...

What will you find on TechNet Wiki on Technology? You will find a lot of contributions made by community (e.g. Wiki-Ninja's, MVP's) and Microsoft employees. If you look into Technologies topic of TechNet Wiki you will find numerous articles ranging from .NET Framework to Windows Workflow Foundation....

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...

It is summertime and we are half way through the year 2013. For Microsoft integration it is has been a great year so far. What do I mean by Microsoft Integration? It is the area within the broad range of Microsoft products and technologies that has its focus on integration. You could call it Microsoft...

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...

Welcome to Tuesday's Wiki Article Spotlight ! I have been contributing a couple of wiki articles last couple of months. This has inspired other BizTalk community members too to write articles for TechNet Wiki. This month January 2012 the number of BizTalk related wiki articles has grown from 40+ to...