A Technology Influencer's musings
A blog exploring the various learning's I have in my day to day role at Microsoft. Currently I'm a technology strategist in the Enterprise Products team and most of my blogs focus on what I think it takes to do that job well.
Change in Role, BizTalk Roadshow and BizTalk 2010 Certification
So after 5 great years being a technology specialist for connected systems, I've decided to...
Date: 03/29/2011
CRM 2011 Integration How to Video #1: BizTalk On-Premise to CRM 2011
I recently participated with our MCS Canada team on a large BizTalk 2009 and CRM 4.0 integration...
Date: 03/09/2011
Local Case Study for BizTalk 2010 and B2B
When selecting a new technology platform, everyone loves to know the platform has already been...
Date: 12/09/2010
BizTalk 2010 has been released
Many of you have been waiting for this, and BizTalk 2010 has just been released to manufacturing. It...
Date: 09/23/2010
Using StreamInsight to Monitor SQL Profile data for Events in SQL Server
Nice project put together by one of our MVPs. He’s used the StreamInsight CEP tool to monitor data...
Date: 08/06/2010
Welcoming a new citizen to the blogosphere and thinking about “Back-room” programmers
During my years in the IT world I’ve been fortunate enough to meet ton of really intelligent...
Date: 06/29/2010
Application Infrastructure Virtual Launch Event
Our Connected Systems platform encompasses a number of technologies including BizTalk Server,...
Date: 05/10/2010
Error during configuration of the ESB toolkit 2.0
I recently helped a client debug an exception they were getting when they tried to run the ESB...
Date: 04/29/2010
Handling Issues with the ESB Toolkit 2.0 Samples on 64 Bit Systems
If you’re trying to install the ESB Toolkit 2.0 samples on a 64 bit environment, then you have...
Date: 04/19/2010
Videos www.Cloudcast.net
Hey, my ESB Toolkit videos have found a new home. They’ve made their way over to www.cloudcasts.net...
Date: 02/17/2010
ESB Toolkit Webcast – On Demand Links
The webcast that Ofer and I ran last week “Improving Business Agility with the Enterprise Service...
Date: 02/16/2010
Host Integration Server 2006 – Service Pack 1: Now Available
Wow, it must be the week for Service Pack announcements. First we see the BizTalk 2006-R1 SP and now...
Date: 02/03/2010
BizTalk 2006-R2 SP1 Now Available
Folks… I admit that I’ve blatantly copied this from the BizTalk Server Team Blog. Just trying to...
Date: 01/29/2010
I’m Co-Presenting an MSDN Webcast on Business Agility with the ESB
On Feb 11th, I’ll be co-presenting an MSDN Webcast with Ofer Ashkenazi (Senior Technical Product...
Date: 01/21/2010
ESB Toolkit How to Video #8: Routing to Azure Based Services
Welcome to #8 in my series of ESB Toolkit How To Videos. If you haven’t already seen the previous...
Date: 01/11/2010
Webcast – Building a Demand Driven Supply Chain
Update Dec 3, This event is now available “On-Demand” at On Demand URL:...
Date: 11/30/2009
My ESB Toolkit How-to Videos are now on MSDN
Hi all. I’ve always used Skydrive and this blog to host my ESB Toolkit how-to videos but I have had...
Date: 11/26/2009
Webcast - Integration Concerns for Healthcare Organizations
Update Nov 31, 2009 : This webcast is now available on demand at...
Date: 11/23/2009
Technology Updates from PDC 2009 and BizTalk 2009-R2
So PDC is over and boy did we get a lot of announcements with regards to our Connected System’s...
Date: 11/23/2009
PDC & Source Code for ESB Toolkit How To Videos
Since I started releasing the ESB Toolkit how-to videos, I’ve had several people ask me for the...
Date: 10/28/2009
SCOM Management Pack for BizTalk 2009 is Available.
To all you folks who have been waiting for the new Management Pack for BizTalk 2009 to be released,...
Date: 09/01/2009
“Pro BizTalk 2009” Book is Finally Available
Yeah! Pro BizTalk 2009 is now published and available. It was an interesting project to be involved...
Date: 08/25/2009
ESB Toolkit How To Video #7: A SharePoint Adapter Provider
Welcome to #7 in my series of ESB Toolkit How To Videos. If you have not seen the previous videos, I...
Date: 08/05/2009
ESBT Toolkit How To Video #6: Performance Metrics using Built in BAM
Welcome to #6 in my series of ESB Toolkit How To Videos. If you have not seen the previous videos, I...
Date: 07/23/2009
ESB Toolkit How To Video #5: Including Custom Orchestrations in Itineraries
Update: Sorry folks, the first link I posted for the video was incorrect. I have updated it now:...
Date: 07/17/2009
ESB Toolkit How To Video #4: Dynamic Itinerary Resolution
Update: After I posted this originally, I was notified that my video did not contain any audio!...
Date: 06/17/2009
ESB Toolkit How To Video #3: Itinerary Resolution in the Bus
Hi folks Here's video #3 in my "ESB Toolkit How To" series. In the last video (found here) we built...
Date: 06/15/2009
ESB Toolkit - Life After Codeplex
So the ESB Toolkit is no longer going to be release through codeplex. So where do you register bugs...
Date: 06/12/2009
ESB Toolkit How To Video #2: Service Composition
Hi everyone, it was quite a long time since I posted the first "How-to" video (found here), but I...
Date: 06/12/2009
ESB Toolkit 2.0 - Finally Here!
All the other BizTalk bloggers have probably already beaten me to this, but I still thought I'd...
Date: 06/09/2009
Disabling Itinerary Encryption in the ESB Toolkit 2.0
Those of you that worked with the CTP of the ESB Toolkit 2.0 will notice a new feature in the final...
Date: 06/08/2009
Goodbye ESBG? Hello ESBT???
Yes indeed, the ESB Guidance is going to experience a name change once version 2.0 is released later...
Date: 06/05/2009
BizTalk 2009 Book and ESB Guidance
Some of you might be familiar with George Dunphy's "Pro BizTalk 2006" book that was released a...
Date: 04/14/2009
My SOA Conference Session on ESB is online
I had a chance last month to speak at the Microsoft SOA Conference about the latest version of the...
Date: 02/27/2009
ESB Guidance 2.0 Screen Videos: Part 1 - Basic Routing
So I've been speak a lot about version 2.0 of the ESB Guidance and I thought I'd better get some of...
Date: 02/18/2009
Busy travelling, busy speaking…
So, I’ve been booked into the Microsoft 2009 SOA conference in Redmond at the end of this...
Date: 01/06/2009
Content from the Canadian Connected Systems Conference
We've been to Vancouver and Toronto so far and lots of people have been asking about the...
Date: 11/05/2008
The Canadian Connected Systems Conference 2008
Canada’s Connected Systems Road show: Can’t make it to PDC but would like to hear more about BizTalk...
Date: 09/16/2008
How to implement retries on BizTalk ESB Off-Ramps
I'm sitting in the Vancouver airport reflecting on a very successful and interesting 2 day deep dive...
Date: 06/09/2008
A Web based version of the BizTalk Rules Composer
As part of a proof-of-concept I was working on last year, we needed to show that the BizTalk...
Date: 05/10/2008
Follow up to ESB Guidance Training Class
We had a great day yesterday at the Microsoft Canada office with over 50 people attending our ESB...
Date: 04/17/2008
ESB Guidance Hands On Labs
Update: I've removed the attached lab for now while we rebundle it up with the other materials used...
Date: 04/16/2008
Announcing free training on the ESB Guidance (Canada only)
The concept of Service Oriented Architecture and the Enterprise Service Bus is huge topic for many...
Date: 03/24/2008
Microsoft ESB Guidance: Error - Host restarting every minute
We'll I just spent about three hours tonight fighting with this issue, so I thought I'd post about...
Date: 02/01/2008
Using the ESB Guidance - Installation Process and Checklists
Many people are eager to get their hands on the new Microsoft ESB Guidance for BizTalk and to start...
Date: 01/22/2008
Microsoft's RFID Solution Days
The Connected Systems Divisions has announced an exciting new event that developers interested in...
Date: 01/14/2008
Canadian Business Process/SOA Conference Documents
People have been asking, so here they are. I've attached all of the presentations that were...
Date: 11/29/2007
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 installation or configuration fails when you download the CAB files that contain the dependency software
Saw an interesting note come through and thought forward it out. BizTalk Server 2006 R2 installation...
Date: 09/07/2007