Check out this great presentation by the "Father of Information Engineering" Clive Finkelstein, covering SOA and BPM Concepts, including a discussion of MS BizTalk Server as one of the foremost BPM products. The session features a great discussion on Read More

Hi guys, if you've ever embarked down the 'hey I want to monitor my bts system through Operations Center 2007', you'll realise that there is a fair conversion process to take the original BTS2006 MOM Pack from *.AKM format to the newer *.XML format. Essentially Read More

http://blogs.msdn.com/biztalk_core_engine/archive/2007/03/31/hidden-gem-in-biztalk-2006-r2.aspx The instances table in the msgbox has a newly added column (in R2 only) to that shows the shape on where the Orch is blocked on. So if there's a stack of Dehydrated Read More

Hi folks, I'm a firm believer in as a developer knowing how your operating system is going to run your program. Learning as much about the environment is a big winner in my book. I was fortunate to be notified by an excited Anthony Borton telling Read More

My first exposure to BizTalk happened when I was tasked to design a cross-agency messaging solution for a government department several years ago. The task seemed simple enough at first: we needed to accept data packages as XML messages delivered from Read More

Don't forget the Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference 2007 (http://www.mssoaandbpconference.com/) is schedule for October 29th to November 2nd.  I have attended the previous 2 conferences and it is the conference to attend if you are interested Read More

So the latest and greatest BizTalk flavour is available  - 'R2' is what it's known to those out on the street. Grab a trial version from http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk The question is: So what's under the hood?(cause that's the important thing Read More