BizTalk 2004

Microsoft RFID goes mobile

BizTalk Visionary — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:44:25 GMT

Microsoft have announced that their RFID programme has now extended to mobile devices. From the Microsoft beta site the following information has been gleaned:

Mobility and Standards Pack - Themes

BizTalk RFID on Mobile Devices
Support for key industry enablers

Run on Handhelds, Forklift readers Better together with BizTalk RFID Server v1

Support for new readers with LLRP Tag Data Translation for richer EPC enabled applications Web Services for Devices for Discovery, Configuration, Initialization (DCI) and Management

Built in Mobility Services

Reliable submit of tags from the mobile device to BizTalk RFID Server [Store and Forward]
Manage mobile device from BizTalk RFID Server using RFID Manager

Add/remove/Enable/disable device from RFID Manager

View Properties
View Tags remotely
Apply Property Templates
Save tags to local database on mobile devices

TDT library for building richer EPC enabled applications

Decode various tag formats
Translate across various formats
Encoding to various formats

Applications

Subscribe to notification events
Built in Management Application
Sample - read tags application

Mobility Platform

Lightweight version of Server platform
Event Notifications
Configuration Store
Provider Management, Device Management

DSPI for CE

Provider development on CE

Setup

One touch installation
Automatic detection of mobile hardware and cab installation

Upgrading to BizTalk 2006

BizTalk + WWF Visionary — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 18:52:00 GMT

Move it:

MSIT group has just released a whitepaper on moving from BizTalk 2004 2002 & 2004 to BizTalk 2004 2006. It goes into quite a bit more technical detail than our typical case study particularly in regards to their consolidation onto 64bit hardware.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/msit/deploy/biztlk06upgtwp.mspx

Developing a solid foundation for delivering transaction services

BizTalk + WWF Visionary — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:16:00 GMT

Walking on the moon:

Developing a solid foundation for delivering transaction services

Andy James, Chief Technology Officer, describes Solidsoft’s approach to delivering a common architecture for creating end-to-end business processes – the Solidsoft Solution Foundation

http://www.valuefromitingovt.com/oct05/article_solution.php

This is the end: Support End Dates

BizTalk + WWF Visionary — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:04:00 GMT

Commerce Server 2000	31/03/2006
BizTalk Server 2000 Standard Edition	30/06/2006
BizTalk Server 2000 Enterprise Edition	30/06/2006
Host Integration Server 2000	31/12/2006

BizTal becomes a mother - sorry MOM!

BizTalk + WWF Visionary — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:22:00 GMT

This adapter can read eventlogs from a Windows Machine. It will read all the specified eventlogs and submit the EventlogEntries to BizTalk 2004. Then you can use BizTalk 2004 to react to specific events

http://www.gotdotnet.com/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx?id=c2c25edd-eb4f-422a-81c0-c0aaa0f0a49a

BizTalk No Output Producing Endpoint Adapter (NOPE)

BizTalk + WWF Visionary — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:19:00 GMT

Sometimes when you use messaging in BizTalk 2004 you want to publish messages in the messagebox. And only if some conditions are met, BizTalk 2004 should react to those messages. But what if those conditions are not met....

Well for sure you could use an orchestration and do some business logic to decide what to do. Unfortunately you will need an orchestration then.
And we started out that we only wanted to use messaging.....

This is where the NOPE adapter comes in.

Just set the Filter expression to the receiveport where the messages come from and this adapter will eat every message coming from a specific receiveport.

If you want to react to specific messages having specific properties you can still use that but the messages that you're not interested in will dissappear without a trace.....

http://www.gotdotnet.com/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx?id=76a1f074-07b9-4180-bbbb-c0ae934802d5

MSDN BizTalk 2004 Articles

BizTalk + WWF Visionary — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:20:00 GMT

MSDN Magazine has this great two part article that digs deeply into BizTalk 2004.

BizTalk 2004 with Visual Studi0 2005 - Problem 1 - Web Service publication

BizTalk + WWF Visionary — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:43:00 GMT

With the launch of the release versions of Visual Studio 2005, and the gap to BTS 2006 we are in that intresting no mans land where we try to use the oldish and the new. This leads to a whole bunch of opinions such as 'You can't install Viz 2005 with BTS 2004'. Well we are trying and I intend to document the problems and the fixes as we go.

Problem 1: BizTalk 2004 Web services publishing tool will fail to generate web services!

Fix:

Change the following registry key - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\devenv.exe. from C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
Change the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\VisualStudio.Solution\CLSID to {246C57AE-40DD-4d6b-9E8D-B0F5757BB2A8}
Reboot

Thanks to EvanderT for that....

Todays the day!

BizTalk + WWF Visionary — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 05:45:00 GMT

Well as we all know SQL 2005, Viz Studio 2005 are now released and BizTalk 2004 2006 is launched (sic). Go to the good old MS beta site and you can get the RTM compatible CTP download of BTS 2006.

So is the wait worth it? Well most cetainly for both SQL 2005 and Viz Studio. BTS 2006 is a point release but still offers some goodies.

SQL has now become a grown up ETL product and add some cute 'integration features'. Viz Studio has just built on itsd already excellent code base.

WWF launched , WCF launched - what now for BizTalk

BizTalk + WWF Visionary — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:01:00 GMT

This is a recurring theme from a number of PDC 05 attendees. I think the answer is two fold :

The first one can be found at : http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/building/workflow/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/WWFIntro.asp#wwfi_topic3

The second is that vNext BizTalk 2004 must be a different beast offering more on top of what now is offered. The designers must be made more friendly (anyone who attended the BizTalk 2004 futres will have seen a glimpse of that), the toolset be increased and the adapter offerings increased. I can see BizTalk 2004 being less engine and more toolset. Hopefully it will just get better, some pointers such as the engine/servers in the RFID offering could maybe be added in as well. Lets hope its all of these.

What I think is true is that the future is looking more and more demanding!!

Must go and rest my head after all this content...