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Rules, Rules, RULES!!

Well, it's pretty common knowledge by now that BizTalk Server (from version 2004 onwards) comes with a Business Rules Engine (BRE), but do you really know just how powerful it is? The BRE provides a mechanism to implement complex business logic in a highly Read More
posted Monday, 10 December 2007 7:19 AM by DanToomey | 2 Comments
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Volta: Smart and Intelligent Tool coming to you from the Connected Systems Division

Finally the word on the street is out with Volta finally being announced (cool name). What is it? What can it do for me? (lately :-)Here's an example scenario:- you write a classic .NET Winform/Client App.- put your 'Volta' hat on and nominate sections, Read More
posted Friday, 7 December 2007 11:05 AM by MickBadran | 1 Comments
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BTSUG Dec 5th - Sydney User Group Meeting: Bring on Christmas and RFID (& XBOX360 shh...)

Hi all and welcome to our last meeting of the year.I know it's Christmas soon and we're all checking out the best gifts to get.......well I got thinking..... why don't we have a 'try before you buy' session with a xbox360/media extender etc??We also need Read More
posted Wednesday, 28 November 2007 11:15 PM by MickBadran | 1 Comments
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Inaugural Brisbane Barcamp - A Success!!

The first ever Barcamp in Brisbane was held this past Saturday at the East Brisbane Bowls Club, thanks to the fantastic sponsorship and organisation efforts of Peter Ward and Steve Dalton. It was a huge success! We had ~35 attendees, at least a dozen Read More
posted Wednesday, 28 November 2007 7:48 AM by DanToomey | 0 Comments
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CodePlex Sample - distributed Pub/Sub model

I recently came across - Distributed Pub/Sub Project up on CodePlex (judging by its date/time stamp this project has been there for a little while) What is interesting is to see where MS are looking to take these sort of systems and why - the whitepaper Read More
posted Thursday, 22 November 2007 3:59 PM by MickBadran | 0 Comments
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.NET 3.5 Framework has landed

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=333325FD-AE52-4E35-B531-508D977D32A6&displaylang=en Live and very available. One of the biggest benefits I see is the WorkflowHostService class - a class that provides the glue between the Read More
posted Thursday, 22 November 2007 3:44 PM by MickBadran | 1 Comments
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Brisbane Inaugural BarCamp - 24 November 2007

Peter Ward has organised the first Brisbane BarCamp for this weekend!What is a BarCamp BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and Read More
posted Wednesday, 21 November 2007 9:57 PM by DanToomey | 0 Comments
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Biztalk beyond the Ages...

Nice post Dan and it's all true....wow what a roadmap from there until here, or then until now.Hope you're all well and kicking goals like the Arsenal the Aussie rugby team . I thought you should know.....recently announced at the big BizTalk conference Read More
posted Thursday, 8 November 2007 2:20 PM by MickBadran | 0 Comments
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BizTalk Through the Ages

Well, we're now up to BizTalk Server 2006 R2 - which is actually the fifth version of BizTalk to be released. For those of you who started with one of the first two versions, Mick knows a good therapist... I was lucky enough to escape those trials and Read More
posted Wednesday, 7 November 2007 6:32 AM by DanToomey | 1 Comments
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SOA, BPM & BizTalk

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
posted Monday, 29 October 2007 8:56 PM by DanToomey | 0 Comments
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BizTalk: Operations Manager 2007 BizTalk converted MOM Pack!!

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
posted Wednesday, 17 October 2007 4:00 PM by MickBadran | 1 Comments
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BizTalk - A Case Study

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
posted Wednesday, 10 October 2007 7:02 PM by DanToomey | 2 Comments
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Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference

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
posted Friday, 5 October 2007 5:39 PM by BillChesnut | 2 Comments
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Pssst...... BizTalk 2006 R2 is now available

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
posted Wednesday, 3 October 2007 10:11 PM by MickBadran | 0 Comments
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BTS - BAM - BI.....coool!!!

(Nice photos Dan......I think we're all looking like we're caught in headlights, unable to hop away :)In transit with a little time to spare I thought I'd share some thoughts around an area that is set to boom in the near future - 'Business Activity Monitoring'I Read More
posted Friday, 21 September 2007 9:57 AM by MickBadran | 0 Comments
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