10/8/2009 BAM - Production environment management

Posted at: 10/8/2009 at 10:36 AM by saravana
Reposting after server crash!! Scenario: In this article we are not going to discuss about how to utilize BAM for your BizTalk applications. I've made the assumption; you created few BAM activities and utilized them inside your BizTalk applications and the system is now running on your productions servers. In my experience, majority of the clients don't take advantage of BAM, when they do they just stick to the basics of creating few BAM activities and utilizing them in their appl... [More]
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9/28/2009 Marriage between BizTalk Server 2006 and IBM WebSphere Message Broker

Posted at: 9/28/2009 at 10:54 PM by saravana
Introduction: In my current client, this is the situation: There are two separate teams involved in two different projects. One utilizing BizTalk Server 2006 building BPM solution and the other utilizing IBM WebSphere Message Broker building an even management system. The day has arrived, where we need to make these two systems talk to each other via MQ. Looking at very high level picture wearing an architecture hat this is what you would have drawn on a white board: Easypeacy... [More]
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4/20/2009 BizTalk Server 2009 Hyper-V Guide

Posted at: 4/20/2009 at 4:55 PM by saravana
BizTalk Server 2009 Hyper-V guide is released on 17th April which can be downloaded on Microsoft Download Center. I'm very happy to be one of the reviewers for this guide. I'm also grateful to Microsoft for mentioning my name on the Acknowledgment section. I just wanted to highlight some of the points 1. The emphasis on this guide is mainly around BizTalk Server performance, it contains details about lot of performance counters and ways you can performance test your BizTalk a... [More]
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1/31/2007 Calling Web Service from BizTalk 2006 in a Messaging only Scenario (aka Content based Routing)

Posted at: 1/31/2007 at 6:45 PM by saravana
In this article I'll explain how you can call a Web Service which requires multiple arguments using a Custom pipeline and a custom pipeline component in a messaging-only scenario without using any Orchestration.   Normally, when there is a requirement to call a web service from BizTalk, people tend to take the easy route of calling it via an Orchestration. When we do a web reference inside the orchestration, Orchestration does quite a lot of work for us. It creates al... [More]
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