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...

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...

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...

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...

Good monday! This has to be my favorite day of the week, a new fresh start and lots of work to be done within the next 5 days, this week however is not like a normal week, I have the week off from work to finish off some stuff in the house before my good friend Steef-Jan Wiggers arrives. However...

Hello everyone, and welcome to Monday Interview. This week is my pleasure to present the Wiki Ninja Luiz Henrique Lima Campos top contributor to Technet Wiki and Techent Forum. Who are you, where are you, and what do you do? What are your specialty technologies? My name is Luiz Henrique Lima...

Welcome to our Thursday Community Win ! So I wrote this blog yesterday, however I'm out travelling doing some training for a company in the UK, and the Internet on the hotel suddenly stopped working, so I ended up waiting for the Internet coming back on again. This week I would love to talk about...

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...

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...

What happens if you compare TN Wiki to the Big Bang theory? At this point, I’m not really sure, but follow along to see how far I get… Let’s start with our planet Earth. For centuries, people have considered the world to be the center of the universe. They were wrong by far, but...

It has been an interesting week for soccer fans as the European championship soccer started in Poland/Ukraine. For Windows Azure adapets it has been a week to remember as several announcements on Windows Azure were made. Microsoft hosted a live streaming event with Scott Guthrie 7th of June from San...

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 again to the Community Win series of the Technet WikiNinjas Blog! As many may be aware of, getting bigger is not good in all circumstances. However, when it comes to available content online, being loaded and fat is good. There are currently topics from programming in .Net , SharePoint , BizTalk...

Since the TechNet Wiki is designed to be populated with data from many different people, there are a lot of layout and designs on the different articles. It seems like most people have their own way of doing things, and some even copy others and at least try to make things look similar. So that brings...

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...

Hello Wiki Ninjas! Luigi Bruno is here today for another appointment to share some brief thoughts about the Wiki’s world with you. Let’s go! Learning by Wiki-ing At the beginning of February, I’ve started a new “job adventure”: learning SharePoint 2010. I’ve...

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...