Integrating to the max...BizTalk Style

  After watching the Azure Tech-Ed sessions back online, I was interested in the session of Stephen W Thomas ‘ Microsoft BizTalk Server 2013 in Windows Azure IaaS and emailed about the status of his last 10% of getting the script together. Sure enough, he finished it within a week, and I tested it out and really recommend to look into it. It provides a lot of insight in the various features PowerShell for Azure has, how to do automation and more. You can find the script at: Need a single server BizTalk Environment on Azure IaaS? Just give this a click! As I had a new computer which was not yet ready for Azure, PowerShell and all these goodies, I wrote down the steps, and things I encountered. Preparation Get an Azure Account (e.g. using your MSDN subscription) Setup Powershell for Azure Start powershell Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned Get and Import your publishing settings from within Powershell Get-AzurePublishSettingsFile (browser will open) Import-AzurePublish...

  I my previous post; Exposing a service through Sentinets Virtual Service concept i’ve explained how to redesign a service by leveraging the Virtual Service concept. We will now execute this service and monitor it. When we open up Sentinet, we have a catalog of Virtual Services; If we go into the details of the Virtual Service, we can generate the WSDL; This WSDL will be made available for a limited duration (i believe 15 min), so that we can use it to generate the consumer, so we see here, that we have our webservice GeoAdmin i had created earlier; We can now use a tool such as SOAPUI to fire requests to the service; As we can see, only the method we had choosen earlier is available, the method ‘GetGeoIPContext’ was not selected in our Virtual Service; Resulting methods in our wsdl; We can send a request to the service; And here, we can use the features Sentinet provides, which is something we can use On-Premise, and in Azure by placing Sentinet Nodes in-front of A...

Tags van Technorati: BizTalk , BizTalk 360 , BTS Today i was notified about an excellent tool to view the stuff you can see in the administration console in a web based silverlight / pimped GUI. Here some quick notes on my first experience as well as some pros- and cons. Installation As described on the documentation you have to perform some steps to get it working. BizTalk 360 is an IIS web application that is installed when you run the setup, additionally it will install a windows service that will monitor your environment. 1) Register and run the setup 2) Configure security a) Application pool user should be a member of BizTalk Server Administrators / IIS_IUSRS / SSO Administrators b) Is mixed authentication is disabled make sure you change the web.config to use integrated security c) Add some grants on the db (suggestion, only do this when you run into problems) GRANT SELECT ON dbo.adm_OtherDatabases TO BTS_ADMIN_USERS GRANT SELECT ON dbo.adm_Server2...