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...

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...

We're continuing our Monday series, " Monday - Community Interview ". Today it is Mandi Ohlinger ! Mandi's profile 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...

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 last category, Administration, and what has been contributed on TechNet Wiki so far by community members. The last couple of...

A vocabulary or even better a glossary of all the common BizTalk terms alphabetically listed can be very useful if you like to look up its definition. Typically you will find a glossary at the end of a book, however it can also be used to list terms in a certain field of study or with a certain technology...

"Brothers in arms" is a pretty well know phrase or soundbite if you like. What is the actually meaning of this phrase? It means that men are fighting side by side. Like in World War Two in Europe or the Pacific the soldiers were eating, sleeping, training, fighting and dying together. It is like a close...

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...

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...

The first time I worked with Windows was in 1995. I was a lab technician back then working on a medicine for anti-coagulants used during a angioplasty surgery. This medicine was produced during a down stream bio engineering process. It had to be tested during each phase of the process. Data collected...

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...

Beginning of this month during the TechEd North America a new Windows Azure Service was released in preview mode: BizTalk Services . This service enables developers to create an integration solution on-premise and host it in this Windows Azure service. BizTalk Services were previously available as a...

Each year Microsoft organizes the global MVP Summit . MVP's around the globe are invited to come over to the Redmond campus or the Hyatt Hotel in Bellevue to meet privately with Microsoft product teams for multiple deep-dive technical sessions. This year the summit will be held twice. The first was in...