April 2008 Entries
By now many of you will have heard the announcement for BizTalk Server 2006 R3. You can read about it on Steve Martin's blog. In addition to being a "synching" release that enables compatibility with SQL 2008 and VS.NET 2008, the high points (from the post) are: New web service registry capabilities with support for UDDI (Universal Description Discovery and Integration) version 3.0 Enhanced service enablement of applications (through new and enhanced adapters for LOB applications, databases, and...
We've just been told we are allowed to say where we are, so, as my colleague Sam Gentile has done, I will :) I'm at the MVP Summit in Redmond, sitting in an Oslo software design review (I first blogged about Oslo here), surrounded by a bunch of really smart people. We've been told we're allowed to say that we're excited, so..... I am excited by what I see. BizTalkers, it turns out we've been going down the right path for years. Technorati Tags: BizTalk,Oslo,Connected Systems...
Microsoft has just released a new version(1.1) of the BizTalk Best Practices Analyzer (BPA). For those of you not familiar with it, it's an awesome tool that looks at your infrastructure, compares it to rules gathered from a variety of experts, and issues a report with recommendations. It does not actually change anything, it just scans the environment and spots opportunities for improvement, provides an explanation and a link to further documentation for anything it reports on. To give you an idea...