Distilled Thoughts (IoT, Integration & Cloud)
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BizTalk Best Practice Analyzer 1.2 now available!
My good friend, colleague and BizTalk legend, Chris Vidotto, just pointed out that the BizTalk Best...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 05/22/2009
BizTalk 2009 Hands On Days
It's here folks! You've got the fantastic opportunity to jump headfirst into the new features of...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 05/22/2009
BizTalk Hotrod magazine
I think this magazine is a little treasure house of some great articles & insights into BizTalk...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 05/13/2009
BizTalk 2009 supported upgrade paths
Folks, I've actually received a whole swag of questions around the paths that we currently support...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 05/13/2009
BizTalk 2009 Installation & Upgrade Guide
Lots of enquiries about the Installation & Upgrade Guide for BizTalk 2009. Here is the link.
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 05/11/2009
TwoConnect's BizTalk Accelerators for Salesforce.com, ACORD & OTA
Folks, I was recently researching solutions on our stack for ACORD and found out that TwoConnect,...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 05/10/2009
UDDI Services in BizTalk 2009
Folks, this article by Richard Seroter is a great introduction to the new UDDI capabilities in...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 05/05/2009
BizTalk 2009 now available!
Folks, checkout the new features of BizTalk 2009 here - A good way of getting started on the 2009...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 05/03/2009
Simple example of using BizTalk Business Rules Engine (BRE) with Database
Folks, I was recently building a proof of a rules based BizTalk Application for a customer where the...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 04/22/2009
Connect to Sydney BizTalk User Group virtually!
Our friend, Mick Badran, has done an amazing job yet again by having the BizTalk User Group (or...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 04/01/2009
Intergraph's Australian User Conference 2009
Folks, If you happened to attend the Intergraph User Conference at Torquay last month, here is my...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 04/01/2009
QuickLearn's BizTalk Deep Dive in Sydney
Hi Folks, Just got an email from Bill Chesnut confirming that the 5-day instructor led hands-on...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 03/31/2009
Under the hood of BizTalk BAM
This MSDN article on BAM provides an in-depth coverage and deep technical insights into the working,...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 01/21/2009
BizTalk ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP2 now available on codeplex
Although the final ESB Guidance 2.0 will coincide with the release of BizTalk 2009, the CTP2 in now...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 01/18/2009
BizTalk Server 2009 Beta Documentation
Folks, I've been continually getting questions around the availability of preliminary documentaton...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 01/15/2009
Media builds the excitement around RFID at TechEd
Folks, check this coverage on how Breeze (Mick, Scott, et al) are planning to showcase the leading...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 08/20/2008
RFID comes to TechEd Australia!
Folks, We're absolutely delighted to announce that this year's TechEd in Sydney will feature a...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 08/14/2008
RFID news: Is the market poised for consolidation?
Just a fortnight after CheckPoint acquired OAT Systems, we hear the news of Impinj acquiring Intel's...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 07/14/2008
Quicklearn BizTalk Deep Dive courses now being delivered in Australia!
Folks, Bill Chesnut, MVP for BizTalk & one of the leading lights in the Integration landscape...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 07/14/2008
RFID news: Checkpoint acquires OAT Systems
Just heard the news that Checkpoint Systems has announced acquisition of OAT Systems - it aims at...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 06/24/2008
BizTalk RFID - Error configuring the Device Manager with RFID devices
If you are getting the following error "ProviderManager did not receive a reply within the...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 06/04/2008
BizTalk RFID event not arriving in the SQL Sink
Hi folks, When I was playing around with the BizTalk RFID devices last night, I discovered that...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 06/04/2008
The vision for BizTalk vNext aka OSLO - models are the applications
I often get asked by the customers how the vNext of BizTalk is going to look like...there is some...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 05/08/2008
BizTalk Server Best Practices Analyzer v1.1 has shipped!
The BizTalk Server Best Practices Analyzer performs configuration-level verification by reading and...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 05/06/2008
BizTalk 2006 R3 announced!
BizTalk Server 2006 R3 has been announced following the latest versions of the wave launch of the...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 05/05/2008
Real-Time Business Decisions with BizTalk RFID Mobile
Folks, We have just released the BizTalk RFID Mobile, a light weight platform for a variety of...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 05/05/2008
Microsoft BizTalk Server Operations Guide is here!
The Microsoft BizTalk Server Operations guide is based on real-world experience from BizTalk...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 03/18/2008
FarPoint Spread for BizTalk Server & Excel Integration
Folks, I'm back after a fantastic vacation! Was recently investigating options to get the Excel file...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 02/19/2008
Bill Chesnut joins the Stargate Group
Hi Folks, This week, Bill Chesnut, MVP for BizTalk and one of the top guns in the Integration...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 12/12/2007
BizTalk RFID Workshop for Partners now open for registration
This fantastic 2-day course is being run by Microsoft Partner Readiness Team in Australia and the...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 12/06/2007
Windows Workflow Foundation course in Australia by Jon Flanders
Folks, I got an email last Friday from Faith Rees of Readify about this fantastic 4-day WF course to...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 12/02/2007
Exposing a simple BizTalk orchestration as WCF service
One of the requests I recently got (from an existing customer in the recruitment space) was to demo...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 11/18/2007
Using your plant-floor data with BizTalk RFID
During the BizTalk R2 launch, FEN, one of Australia's premier manufacturing news websites,...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 11/11/2007
BizTalk SQL Receive adapter - Envelope Debatching in pipeline
Last week, whilst doing a proof-of-concept for a customer in Melbourne, I was asked to demo a...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 11/11/2007
BizTalk R2 Training in Australia
Getting lots of queries around the next BizTalk R2 training in Nov. here in Australia:...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 10/31/2007
Optimizing BizTalk SQL Adapter performance
On your receive port, there is a property called 'Poll While Data Found', set this to True. This...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 10/18/2007
Timestamp data type in SQL Server
Just looking at the timestamp data type, I realized that in SQL Server this exposes an automatically...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 10/15/2007
First anniversary at Microsoft!
Today, I celebrated my first anniversary working for Microsoft! I can tell you that it has been the...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 09/25/2007
Mick's Webcast on BizTalk & WF Integration
My mate, Mick Badran, MVP for BizTalk and one of the leading lights in this space, recently did an...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 09/02/2007
BizTalk 2006 R2 and RFID
Folks, During TechEd in Gold Coast, I had the pleasure of interviewing Krishnan Gopalan, Snr....
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 09/02/2007
Error configuring EDI/AS2 on BizTalk 2006 R2
Like me :-( if you uninstalled BizTalk 2006 Server and then re-installed BizTalk 2006 R2 and have...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 08/26/2007
BizTalk 2006 R2 Launch in Sydney on Sep 14th!
Folks, We are having this very exciting & eagerly-awaited BizTalk 2006 R2 launch here in Sydney...
Author: rahulgarg1 Date: 08/20/2007