My team was facing acute errors just about the delivery time. We approached MS India, freelancers, topic expects but so solution. In our case, I found out that this was a local environment issue rather than a generic issue which is why no one had any solution. Environment: SharePoint 2010 Issue: we were getting error while creating a new site from a site template we had created. Our deliverable to the client was a site template. Our resolution (steps): 1. Create a new “site template” without content....

Microsoft recently annouced BizTalk Server 2009 R2, BizTalk's future and Roadmap: Learn how BizTalk Server 2009 lets you focus on writing the code to do the hardcore business logic and let BizTalk take care of moving the data. Hear how your development skills with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) work seamlessly with the powerful integration platform of BizTalk. Find out how BizTalk aligns with the Microsoft application server in the longer term. http://microsoftpdc.com/Ses...

News Newell Rubbermaid - Newell Rubbermaid Expects to Save $1.5 Million Managing Brand Web Sites Over Two Years: http://www.microsoft.com/ca... BizTalk Server 2009 R2 Announced at the Microsoft PDC Conference: http://microsoftpdc.com/Ses... Windows AppFabric announced at the Microsoft PDC Conference: http://microsoftpdc.com/Ses... Documents New Features in BizTalk Server 2006 R2 SP1 (pre-release): http://go.microsoft.com/fwl...

With announcement of.Net 4.0, VS2010 and other related products: One of common questions that I hear is “What’s next for BizTalk Server?”. My answer: it would probably be BizTalk Server 2009 R2. BizTalk Server 2006 R3 was renamed to BizTalk Server 2009 and we know the list of features new version provides. I wonder why BTS2009 and why not BTS2006 R3. I see the BTS2009 more of a technology parity with other Microsoft products. Yes, it does have some enhancements but does is qualify for a new major...

Documents: White paper - BizTalk Adapter Pack: Connecting LOB Systems and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server: http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... White paper - BizTalk Server and WCF Support in Visual Studio 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... Downloads: Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack Readme and Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack Installation Guide Download the latest readme and the installation instructions for the BizTalk Adapter Pack: http://www.microsoft.com/do...

Yes, now its Microsoft getting into SEO. Personally, I have not been a big fan of SEO initiatives and the action that is going around it. Following article is what I agree: http://societrends.com/2009... Having said that, we still have to keep our customers happy and IIS SEO Toolkit can make developers life easy. Some of customization we do today for achieving SEO requires multiple third party utilities and in the end becomes miserable to maintain. Executive Summary Microsoft...

Dependencies The Manufacturing Toolkit requires the following technologies in order to compile and run: · BizTalk 2009/BizTalk 2006 R2 · SQL Server 2008/SQL Server 2005 · Windows Server 2003 R2/Windows Server 2008 · Visual Studio 2008 SP1 · .Net 3.5 SP1 Instructions for installing the toolkit can be found in the “Getting Started” Guide, which is part of the download...

I have received this question multiple times in recent past. Many are not able to find BizTalk's Financial Accelerator for SWIFT 3.0 (A4SWFT 3.0) in their MSDN downloads. This is because all Accelerators and Adapters use to be in different section until last year. You can find A4SWIFT 3.0 at: Server>>BizTalk Server 2006 R2>>BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Accelerators (x86) - CD (English) Few more helpful links: BizTalk 2006 R2 Accelerator for SWIFT (A4SWIFT) v3.0 Service Pack 1: http://www.microsoft.com/do...

Have you read or experimented with Azure yet? Business wise this is a fantastic approach from Microsoft for the way they want to sell Azure platform. Pricing, SLA and commercial version are yet to be made available by Microsoft but it’s worthwhile looking at it in its current form. For developers… here are some resources: What is Azure: http://www.microsoft.com/az... Demos and samples: Updated MMC for .Net Services: http://code.msdn.microsoft.... Windows Azure...

I am installing SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition on VISTA Ultimate and noticed that only client components are being installed. Setup shows an option to install “Server components” but never installs! However, the setup does give a warning for “SQL Server Edition Operating System Compatibility”. Solution: install SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition. Developer edition do not give operating system compatibility warning...