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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver 1.1 Community Technology Preview June 2006

MJDorner — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:11:00 GMT

Download the Community Technology Preview (CTP) version of the SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver 1.1, a Type 4 JDBC driver that provides database connectivity through the standard JDBC application program interfaces (APIs) available in J2EE (Java2 Enterprise Edition).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f914793a-6fb4-475f-9537-b8fcb776befd&displaylang=en

BizTalk Server 2006 Documentation Update

mtruempy — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:20:00 GMT

check out the latest and greatest documentation material for BizTalk Server 2006 including an updated .chm file, updated config/install guides, new code samples and links to the BizTalk Dev/Tech Center and to other interesting related content.

Core Documentation | Download

For this release, we are publishing a .chm file for download. Among the many things you will find:

Complete documentation for all BizTalk Server Line of Business Adapters, including new tutorials, one for each adapter. See the section "Using Adapters."
Troubleshooting guidance for each of the native BizTalk adapters. See the section "Troubleshooting Adapters."
Troubleshooting Instructions for how to capture a memory dump. See the section "How to Capture a Memory Dump of a BizTalk Process."
Disaster recovery instructions for backing up and restoring your BizTalk Server and databases. See the section "Backing Up and Restoring BizTalk Server"
Updated Tutorials. See the section, "BizTalk Server 2006 Tutorials"
Information for improving fault tolerance. See the section "Planning and Architecture"
Updated Developer's Reference that now includes the BAM namespaces that were not included in the RTM documentation. See the section "Developer's Reference"

Updated Installation, Configuration, and Upgrade Guides | Download

The installation instructions explain how to install BizTalk Server 2006 on Windows XP, Windows 2000 Server, or Windows Server 2003 in a single server or multiserver environment.

New BizTalk Server 2006 Code Samples | Download

We have posted 31 new code samples to the BizTalk Server Developer Center since RTM.

Publishing and Consuming Web Services with SOAP Headers
BAM and HAT Correlation
Consuming Web Services with Array Parameters
Extending the BizTalk Server Administration Console
Viewing Failed Tracking Data
Inserting XML Nodes from Business Rules
Using the Mass Copy Functoid
Using Role Links
Split File Pipeline
Using Enterprise Library 2.0 with BizTalk Server
Consuming Web Services
Console Adapter
Delivery Notification
Using Long-Running Transactions in Orchestrations
Using the Looping Functoid
Mapping to a Repeating Structure
Parallel Convoy
Policy Chaining
Recoverable Interchange Processing Using Pipelines
Using the Table Looping Functoid
Using the Value Mapping and Value Mapping (Flattening) Functoids
Direct Binding to an Orchestration
Direct Binding to the MessageBox Database in Orchestrations
Using a Custom .NET Type for a Message in Orchestrations
Writing Orchestration Information as XML Using the ExplorerOM API
Correlating Messages with Orchestration Instances
SSO as Configuration Store
Atomic Transactions with COM+ Serviced Components in Orchestrations
Exception Handling in Orchestrations
Implementing Scatter and Gather Pattern
Using the SQL Adapter with Atomic Transactions in Orchestrations

BizTalk Server 2006 Developer Center and TechCenter

On, May 1st, we launched the BizTalk Server 2006 Developer Center. This project constituted a complete rebuild of the previous BizTalk Server 2004 Developer Center. For May and June we featured orchestrations. This included new code samples, an FAQ paper on orchestrations, and in-depth content surfaced from the core documentation. With the re-design of the site it’s easier than ever to learn to develop, deploy, administer, and use BizTalk Server 2006. For July we will be focusing on Adapters!

In addition to the Developer Center, we also launched the BizTalk Server 2006 TechCenter. The TechCenter provides easy access to BizTalk Server 2006 technical documentation, downloads, and community, as well as to IT Pro favorites such as the Events & Errors Message Center. Each navigation page within the technical library includes quick access to search BizTalk Server newsgroups and knowledge-base articles as seen, for example, on the Getting Started page. Among many things, the site contains:

Virtual labs
The end-to-end tutorial as downloadable Word docs
New content on Clustering BizTalk Server
Links to the Installation Instructions
Links to the Production Documentation published on MSDN

Other Content

In addition to the fixes introduced, we have also been busy over the past few months producing, updating, and publishing other valuable content. This includes:

“Migrating from Oracle to SQL Server with 80% Less Effort” on IT’s Showtime!

MJDorner — Mon, 29 May 2006 01:26:00 GMT

This session covers the issues that are faced with migrating an Oracle based application to a SQL Server based application with a deep dive into the differences in database structure. We'll look into the many options available to you help you migrate your existing Oracle databases to SQL Server 2005 and introduce our new SQL Server Migration Assistant tool (SSMA).

French: http://www.microsoft.com/switzerland/technet/fr/itsshowtime/sessionh.aspx?videoid=79

German: http://www.microsoft.com/switzerland/technet/de/itsshowtime/sessionh.aspx?videoid=79

WP: IDoc based adapterless communication between SAP Netweaver Application Server and Microsoft BizTalk Server

mtruempy — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:44:00 GMT

Check out this interesting Whitepaper describing an adapterless IDoc communciation between SAP NetWeaver Application Server and BizTalk Server 2004 SP1 -or- 2006, as long as you are running SAP NetWeaver AS 6.20 -or- 6.30 -or- 6.40 as an alternative in using the existing BizTalk Adapter 2.0 for mySAP Business Suite SPA (aka BTS SAP adapter) for SAP versions SAP 4.6D and below. This Adapter which is available for BizTalk Server 2004 with additional pricing, is free with BizTalk Server 2006 (as all the other adapters from Microsoft are free respectively included in the BizTalk Server 2006 price as well). That adapter builds upon the SAP .NET connector 1.0 and leverages RFCs to communicate with SAP. This integration is SAP certified via the SAP integration scenario CA-ALE 4.0.

Download Whitepaper: "IDoc based adapterless communication between SAP NetWeaver Application Server and Microsoft BizTalk Server, by Jürgen Daiberl and Tilo Böttcher, Global SAP-Alliance, Microsoft" at http://www.microsoft-sap.com/pdf/CollaborationBrief.pdf

Download Whitepaper using SAP XI and Microsoft BizTalk Server with reliable messaging thru SOAP: https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/7521a237-0701-0010-499b-b3285b789c0d

more information on BizTalk Server in an SAP environement can be found at: the Microsoft SAP Alliance website under BizTalk http://www.microsoft-sap.com/technology.aspx and also check out our SAP teams blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/saptech/

regards
-Marcel

Try Commerce Server 2006 Beta 1

MJDorner — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:20:00 GMT

Join the Commerce Server beta team by registering for and downloading Commerce Server 2006 Beta 1. Learn first hand how you can achieve more on your Commerce Server infrastructure with the new functionality in Commerce Server 2006.

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