The full list isn't up in ScottW's blog yet, but the MSDN BPI Home page lists these folks as winners: 1st: Paul Somers of London, England; BizTalk Server Management Tool entry2nd: Jesus Rodriguez; BizTalk Server UDDI Publishing Wizard3rd: Scott Colestock of Champlin, Minnesota4th: Pallavi Narayanaswamy of Bangalore, India5th: Darrin Weber of Allentown, Pennsylvania Good to see a fellow Brit at the top of the list ......
Orchestrations in BizTalk Server 2004 may have call dependencies between them which mean that they must be started and stopped in a specific order. I've written an orchestration dependency lister (available here, on Got Dot Net), which examines a server and produces an XML file detailing the order in which its deployed orchestrations must be started. Included in the zip file are two XSL files to transform the output from the Orchestration Dependency Lister into DOS batch files to start and stop all ......
Scott Colestock has produced an uber-update to his BizTalk NAnt Deployment Script. It now does everything including IIS directories, multiple bindings files, and making a cup of tea while you wait ;-) Fantastic stuff. Hopefully my entry to the BizTalk developer contest (appearing on GDN soon) will help to fill a missing link in the script - it's a utility that uses WMI to interrogate your BizTalk server and produce an XML file specifying the order in which your orchestrations should be started. Obviously ......