Did you know we now have 14,571 pages on TechNet Wiki? That's 14,000+ pages that you (the 4,150 community members) added, you refined, and you discussed! Thank you to every one of our contributors! Here are the current numbers... Main Wiki (English + Other Languages): 4,150 users have contributed...

Hi, I’m very excited and proud about our Microsoft Technical French Contributor Award because we finally begun. We have our first winner Mathieu Deleplanque LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=167070005 Technical Blog: http://mdeleplanque.wordpress.com...

Hello the community, It a shiny Sunday at Belgium today and I’m very tired after the SharePoint Saturday yesterday but this is not a reason to forgot my post! Today I want to talk about “signatures” on TechNet Wiki and TechNet Blogs ! After searching a while on internet I’ve...

As a technical community we strongly believe in sharing knowledge. When I am on stage doing a session on BizTalk Server 2013, Windows Azure Service Bus or Integration with Microsoft Technology I usually start with introducing myself and what I do. Then I talk through my activities on the BizTalk forums...

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...

I have been extremely busy lately and it is great to take some time to post on our favorite blog :) In this post, I’d like to talk discuss community synergy by using both TechNet Wiki and the TechNet Gallery for content delivery. The Wiki is the best place to post and collaborate on technology...

Hello and welcome everybody to our Sunday – Weekend Surprise, I will give information about Windows Server 2012 certification. The certification software’s name, which is named as Mircosoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) and Mircosoft Certified Systems Enginneer (MCSE) in Windows...

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...

Hello the community, I’m very excited today to announce you a new collaboration between Ninjas. But before talking about our new collaboration I want to highlight and give credentials to The Brazilian Ninjas. I got my MUG a few days ago and I’m very proud to use this MUG. Not because...

Currently I am in my third year in the MVP program. Still very focused on sharing my knowledge and experience with the community, interacting with the BizTalk Product Group and fellow Microsoft Integration MVP's. In my view is that the community, MVP's, MCC's and the Product Group need each other and...

Hi everyone. Today I’am on the hunt ! (With my slingshot in my pocket and some beans – just kidding ) I just saw a new Microsoft’s title ( new is subjective as it’s new for me ). MTAC I saw that title from profile (like here or here ) My curiosity started to kick in...

Before I get started with my first post as a Wiki Ninja blog author, I’d like to thank Ed Price for bringing me on board. I am truly looking forward to this journey. When I was a young tech, I had the privilege of learning the disciplines of information sciences while working in the field with...

Socrates drank a cup filled with poison because he stuck to his principles. This post is much like that, in the sense that I’m sticking to the plan I originally had, although I feel that my chances of surviving the writing of this blog post are actually a lot better compared to the odds Socrates...

So this is my first weekend surprise sorry for the lack of links, they will come tomorrow morning! It's one week left till the MVP Summit (celebrating 20 years with the MVP award) in Seattle and I wanted to share something with you. We have the articles on the TechNet wiki on how to become MVPs or MCC...

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...

I tend to keep myself extra busy with pet projects. One of my pet projects is getting more and more serious, but it’s a secret. As a Wiki Ninja, I have to go double secretive about it. Shall I tell you what it is? Of course I will! I’m working on some algorithms that employ advanced statistical...

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...

Hello and welcome to (y)our Sunday Lists! Hope you had ALL a great New Year and enjoyed your gifts. Btw I’m still waiting my chocolates from Bill Gates who is reading each TechNet Wiki contribution. :) A lot of time I get the question by my little sister about “where do you get the...

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...

Hello community, As predicted by the Maya’s, yesterday was the end of the world, but today I’m living so I guess that they were wrong. Before beginning I’d like to wish you ALL a merry Christmas!! Today I’m going to explain how to learn, install and Configure Sharepoint...

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...

Hello everyone! Ed created some time ago, the first Ultimate Collection of Wiki Ninja stick figures. This collection has fourty four (44) stick figure images. These figures are available for download at: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Ninja-Stick-Figures-12b836b5 But whenever i need to use a...

Welcome to Weekend Surprise ! And here's an announcement... There are now 30,000+ comments on TechNet Wiki! The current number is 31,865 comments! Why is this significant? Well, because comments usually aren't on Wikis. They bring us together in new ways! For more about the amazingness of comments...

I find that a new version of a software product or a breakthrough in technology can change perspective on things tremendously. That’s the time when everybody starts pointing out what was wrong with the old technology. For example: Until ASP.NET I wasn’t aware how LiveWire and ASP technology...