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...

I will be not the first nor last one that will blog, tweet or share through other social media that BizTalk Server 2013 is RTM . The 8th release in little over twelve years. That is amazing as I do not believe any Server Product has such a release cadence. Impressive as the Microsoft BizTalk Server Product...

UPDATE : The BizTalk article came out on top. It's featured on the home page of TechNet Wiki: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/default.aspx ======================= Today, you get a bonus article on the Tuesday topic of featuring articles. But we're going to pick which article to feature...

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...

2/5 UPDATE : We have a winner! It's... SharePoint 2010 Best Practices: Choosing Between AD Groups or SharePoint Groups - by Margriet. This article was featured on the home page of TechNet Wiki on 2/5. ================ Welcome to Thursday's Community Win ! For our community collaboration this week...

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 cloud is expanding fast in features and capabilities. Offering a plethora of possibilities for existing and new enterprises. It offers infrastructure-, platform- and software as a service for enterprises to utilize. New services and applications are built and deployed every day with a high demand...

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...

Beta of the forthcoming new BizTalk Server has been released. The beta also brought forth a new name for the new BizTalk release. It will be named 2013. This is in my view the appropriate name for the release. The release will be in somewhere in Q1. It has new features and capabilities to offer. BizTalk...

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...

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 our Tuesday article spotlight ! Have you ever had an Issue with a product from Microsoft? And you struggle to locate information, when you do you forget to write it down and when the problem occur again you have to look up the solution again. Well if you follow the idea of this article...

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...