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BizTalk Summit 2013

This year another BizTalk Summit will take place. A recollection of last year’s event is described in a blog post by Michael Stephenson. The 2-day conference last year the was held in December on the Microsoft Campus . It was followed up by BizTalk conference in January in Amsterdam, London and Stockholm.  Both the US and European BizTalk events were successful. Each with over a 100 or 200 participants. Microsoft Products was present at each of the events, speaking and engaging the community . The BizTalk Summit this year will follow directly after the MVP Summit and the Registration of this event is now open! The event is focused on Microsoft Integration technologies, which includes BizTalk Server, the Windows Azure BizTalk Services, and the Windows Azure Service Bus. During the summit you can expect presentations, discussions, and labs to help you understand Microsoft's Integration strategy and roadmap. Since there will quite a few Microsoft Integration MVP (I expected

TechNet Wiki Blog

I regularly write blog posts for the TechNet Wiki Blog or WikiNinjas - Official Blog of TechNet Wiki . This blog acts a catalyst for the TechNet Wiki . Every day of the week a blog post is created on different topics (categories): Monday - Interview with a Wiki Ninja Tuesday - TNWiki Article Spotlight Wednesday - Wiki Life Thursday - Council Spotlight Friday - International Update Saturday - Top Contributors of the Week Sunday – Surprise The blog started in October 2011 and is now active for two years. I happen to be one of the first people onboard as a blogger. I usually write posts on Monday, Tuesday or Sunday. One of my recent posts was an Interview with fellow Microsoft Integration MVP Leonid Ganeline . The blog is worth reading as it will give you information on the activity on the TechNet Wiki, people involved, the community and an occasional surprise. The interview with Leonid was one of the few interviews I have done for this blog over the last couple of years. T

BizTalk Community Series: Introducing M.R.ASHWINPRABHU‏

Tomorrow there will be another BizTalk event . Venue will be Microsoft Italy in Milan. I will be speaking there with other Microsoft Integration MVP’s, Microsoft and people from Microsys (main sponsor). This will be another opportunity to engage the BizTalk community. Interactions with the BizTalk community are vital to keep us MVP’s focused. We can be viewed as an intermediary between them and the Product Group. Besides that we love to share our knowledge, experience and views on integration. In of my previous engagements I met M.R. Ashwinprabu . This was in London, during the BizTalk Summit London 2013 . Today’s story will be about M.R. Ashwinprabu . He lives with his wife in the UK . They recently moved from beautiful Bath to Reading . In their spare time they talk to their parents back in India , watch movies, long walks and taste different kind of foods. “I like to know things happening around me, I spend time reading news. I am more interested in political news especially

BizTalk Server 2013: Connect to Window Azure Blob Storage Article

On of the demo’s during Developing Hybrid Solutions with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013 and Windows Azure presentation talk was about connecting to Windows Azure Storage and pushing a document to a blob container. Based on that demo I created a TechNet Wiki article. What was missing in the demo was functionality to strip path from ReceivedFilename context property. I created a pipeline for it to do so and build the complete messaging solution . Here is the abstract of the TechNet Wiki article: BizTalk Server 2013 supports connectivity with Windows Azure through its new adapters WCF-BasicHttpRelay, WCF-NetTcpRelay, WCF-WebHttp and SB-Messaging. The relay adapters enables connectivity with relay service in Windows Azure Service Bus. SB-Messaging adapters provides means to connect to queue and subscriptions (topic). Finally the WCF-WebHttp for instance supports connectivity to REST endpoints. Windows Azure Storage and other services in Windows Azure and the cloud support a REST Int

White paper on WCF-BasicHttpRelay adapter

In the new adapters series I discussed the adapters released with BizTalk Server 2013. I demonstrated the relay adapters (HTTP, NetTcp), Service Bus Messaging, WebHttp (REST) and linked to the TechNet Wiki article on SFTP. I have written a White paper that discusses the BasicHttpRelay more in-depth. BizTalk Server 2013 offers a few new adapters. Three of them enable connectivity with the Windows Azure Service Bus. These adapters are the WCF-BasicHttpRelay, WCF-NetTcpRelay, and SB-Messaging. The first two leverage the ability to use the Service Bus Relay. The relay service is one of the entities within the Windows Azure Service Bus. Benefits of using the relay service are that: you can share data between an on premise application, Line-of-Business system or databases with a service hosted elsewhere (in the cloud or other enterprise); you have a secure connection between both sender and receiver of datawith simplified networking (less dealing with firewalls, dynamic IP addresses or

BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Suleiman Shakhtour‏

It is time to continue the BizTalk Community Series after a recent successful event in Norway, the Bouvet BizTalk Innovation Day . This event was a great opportunity for me to meet up with many Scandinavian BizTalk professionals. During the two day event we as BizTalkCrew , Kent Weare and Paolo Salvatori (Microsoft) presented about the latest (Windows Azure BizTalk Services, BizTalk 2013), proven technology (Windows Azure Service Bus, BizTalk Mapping, Best Practices and Proactive Monitoring) and BizTalk360 . Today’s story in the series will be on a newcomer in the BizTalk Community, who has recently contributed some great articles on the TechNet Wiki, Suleiman Shakhtour . Suleiman is 31 years old and married to the wonderful Aseel. They have recently moved to one of the most beautiful cities in Turkey : Istanbul and will soon be expecting their first baby. It would not be a surprise that they are now do al lot of sightseeing and discover a lot of new places in this wonderful