BizTalk Server 2013 RTM Now Available!

March 21, 2013 Leave a comment

BizTalk Server 2013 has now finally been released to manufacturing! View the full details on the BizTalk Server Team Blog.BizTalkServer2013

Note that there is a new pricing model based on cores rather than processers. The official Licensing Datasheet & FAQ document is available from Microsoft, while Saravana Kumar has a very comprehensive and detailed post to explain the new licensing scheme. You can also download a BizTalk Server 2013 License Maintenance spreadsheet that Saravana has made available.

Also of interest is that there is no developer edition of BizTalk 2013 to download. Instead, MSDN users can download the Enterprise edition, which is the same as the developer edition. There is also the 180-day free trial edition.

Happy BizTalk-ing!

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BizTalk Server 2013 RTM Now Available!

March 21, 2013 Leave a comment

BizTalk Server 2013 has now finally been released to manufacturing! View the full details on the BizTalk Server Team Blog.BizTalkServer2013

Note that there is a new pricing model based on cores rather than processers. The official Licensing Datasheet & FAQ document is available from Microsoft, while Saravana Kumar has a very comprehensive and detailed post to explain the new licensing scheme. You can also download a BizTalk Server 2013 License Maintenance spreadsheet that Saravana has made available.

Also of interest is that there is no developer edition of BizTalk 2013 to download. Instead, MSDN users can download the Enterprise edition, which is the same as the developer edition. There is also the 180-day free trial edition.

Happy BizTalk-ing!

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Discovering Domain Group Membership for an Account

March 13, 2013 Leave a comment

Today was not the first time that I’ve had to verify that BizTalk service accounts were in the right domain groups, but didn’t have access to AD to check.  Fortunately a bit of time with Dr. Google unearthed this command line tool:

net user {username} /domain

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BizTalk360 – Latest Version

March 12, 2013 Leave a comment

The latest version of BizTalk360 (v6.0) was released on 7 March 2013. It features some great improvements over the previous version and proves the team’s commitment to regular releases in response to customer feedback.

For a discussion of the new features, please see this post on my employer’s blog, which also contains a link to my previous post on the core capabilities of the product.

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New Search Screen – BizTalk360

We are recommending this product to our clients as a relatively simple and inexpensive way to manage the operational support of a BizTalk Server environment.

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Configuring the BizTalk SQL Agent Jobs

March 2, 2013 3 Comments

One of the things people often forget to do when installing BizTalk into an environment for the first time is to configure and enable two critical SQL Server Agent jobs:

  • Backup BizTalk Server
  • DTA Purge and Archive

These jobs are not enabled by default because they both require you to supply UNC paths to the backup and archive file locations, respectively.  While backups and archiving may not seem like the most immediate priority (especially in non-production environments), it is nonetheless essential that these jobs run successfully as they keep the BizTalk databases “lean & mean” by purging old data. I’ve seen client tracking databases grow to over 200GB in size when the latter job is not running properly (the Microsoft recommended size is <5GB!!)

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Service Bus Messaging Deep-Dive on Channel 9

February 26, 2013 Leave a comment

152 minutes of comprehensive Windows Azure Service Bus Messaging deep-dive by the master himself, Clemens Vasters! Even comes with topic time markers so you can jump to the bits you’re interested in:

ServiceBusMessagingThm

You can also download his freely-usable slide deck from here.

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Don’t Miss the Bus: New Push Notifications feature in Windows Azure

February 24, 2013 Leave a comment

Here’ s re-blog of a post I just did for my employer’s blog. It discusses a brand new Push Notifications feature in Windows Azure Service Bus preview:

http://www.mexia.com.au/dont-miss-the-bus-new-push-notifications-feature-in-windows-azure/

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Notification Hub in Windows Azure Service Bus

(Image courtesy of MSDN)

Enjoy!

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Brisbane Azure User Group Meeting Last Night

February 21, 2013 Leave a comment

Saw a couple of interesting presentations at the Brisbane Azure User Group last night, including a presentation from Jonathon Rossi from Transmax about Azure Traffic Manager, and an enlightening view into Todd Whitehead‘s experience implementing an Azure solution at Harvey Norman. Todd showed how recent improvements in the platform have relieved some of the pain points, especially around cache management.

Brisbane Azure User Group logo

Check out more details and some pics at the MeetUp site.

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WEBCAST: Using SSO for Application Configuration in BizTalk

February 18, 2013 Leave a comment

Recently posted a new webcast on how to use the built-in features of Enterprise Single Sign-On to store and manage your custom application configuration in BizTalk:

http://youtu.be/n5RflNzXcfA

There are many options for application configuration within BizTalk Server. This webcast shows how to use the out-of-the-box features of SSO to host secure, distributed configuration within customised application containers.

More webcasts to follow on the Brisbane BizTalk User Group YouTube channel.

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WEBCAST: Consuming REST Services Using BizTalk 2010

February 13, 2013 1 Comment

Although this may be superseded by the new REST adapter coming in BizTalk Server 2013, this first  webcast of mine shows how to use WCF custom behaviours and the webHttpBinding to consume REST services from BizTalk 2010 and earlier:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QshMdmTHgRY

Code samples are available on the TechNet post  that inspired this webcast.

The slide deck used in this webcast is available here.

Additional webcasts will continue to be posted on the Brisbane BizTalk User Group YouTube channel.

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