Microsoft has added a BizTalk Server 2013 Beta virtual machine image to the gallery of available images on Windows Azure. In a few clicks you can create a new BizTalk Server that has all of its software pre-installed. The only thing you need to do is the final step of configuring the BizTalk Server using the BizTalk Configuration Utility. Note that ......

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Magenic is sponsoring a FREE day of advanced education for senior technical people and technical decision makers on Friday April 19th, 2013 at the Microsoft Building (835 Market Street, Suite 700, San Francisco, CA 94103).Rocky Lhotka will deliver the keynote speech -- “The Future of Microsoft Software Development”. The sessions will cover modern application ......

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Background Designing Stored Procedures that are safe for multiple subscribers (to call simultaneously) can be challenging. For example let’s say that you want multiple worker processes to poll a shared work queue that’s encapsulated as a SQL Table. This is a common scenario and through experience you’ll find that you want to use Table Hints to prevent ......

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When installing SQL Server 2008 R2 (Developer, Standard, or Enterprise) within a Virtual PC you may suffer the following problem: “The following error has occurred: The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2337.” The error occurs in the following package: ......

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When you try to add a BTAHL7 Common Project, e.g. BTAHL7V2XCommon, to your Visual Studio 2010 solution you may encounter the following error: “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” This error occurs when you try to create the BTAHL7 Common Project within a Solution Folder that matches the location of a Physical Folder within your solution’s ......

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Jon Flanders did some great work with SSO for storing BizTalk configuration data (used by .NET code) within the Enterprise SSO Database and the BizTalk team created a sample application for using SSO as a Configuration Store back in BizTalk Server 2006. Richard Seroter brought these things together in an SSO Configuration Utility that enables users ......

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Microsoft have released a 2nd CTP of the Windows Azure ServiceBus EAI & EDI Labs SDK – this is the new Integration Services platform that will likely eclipse BizTalk Server at some point in the next three (3) to five (5) years:Download: http://www.microsoft.com/en... Overview of the refreshed CTP:http://blogs.msdn.com/b... ......

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Microsoft Dynamics 4.0 has a 32-bit BizTalk Adapter which is not compatible with 64-bit versions of Windows or BizTalk. Under Windows Server 2003, the AX 4.0 Adapter would not even install on the 64-bit version of the OS. On Windows Server 2008 R2 (which is only 64-bit), the Adapter installs, but it won’t work. However one of my colleagues, Justin, ......

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