One of common issues that I came across recently from some of BizTalk users are: Unable to see A4SWIFT properties in filter section. This is when you setup port properties from BizTalk explorer and BizTalk administration console. Unable to get to the configuration wizard after installation of A4SWIFT is over. After installation of A4SWIFT is over you get error messages like - "unable to deploy assemblies" or "some of the assemblies are already deployed and you need to redeploy A4SWIFT assemblies....

I am noticing that today every product and company has SOA and SAAS in there roadmap in couple years to come! I am hearing this from sometime and am now starting to investigate how Microsoft’s products help its users to align themselves with this. First of all what is this SOA and SAAS? SOA - Service Oriented Architecture In this approach functionalities of applications are exposed as services. This is commonly implemented through standards-based, technology-neutral Web Services In a real time scenario,...

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