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So, I haven’t really been doing much with BizTalk for a while now, spending more time on traditional development activities and working on some WCF specific solutions. However, I have recently been investigating SOA implementations in more detail, in particular the ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) along with how and why you would want one of these in ...

It's been a long time since I last wrote a blog post; around six months to be exact. It's not that I have not been busy writing though. In April I began embarking on one of the hardest things I've ever done; writing a book with my co-author John Shaw. And now for a brief advertisement; the book is called ''Pro ADO.NET Data Services : Working ...

So how far has Microsoft reached with its Oslo vision and what is the future of BizTalk? This was a common question amongst various people I met during Tech-Ed 2k8 in Florida a couple of weeks ago. I tried to extract as much as I could from Microsoft around this topic. Oliver Sharp (general manager, connected systems division) and David Chappell ...

I'm currently attending the Microsoft SOA & BP Conference in Redmond. It's been a fantastic conference so far, with loads of great sessions by industry luminaries. The key news of the conference is the announcement of Microsoft's new wave of products for building Service Oriented Architecture. Will this change the way we build ...

Message ordering is a key concept in a service orientated architecture. It is a key concept, because one of the core tenets of SOA is that a service must remain autonomous. In remaining autonomous, a service must be able to deal with any unexpected circumstance of messages sent to it, including the possibility of messages being received out of ...

Environment:Operation System: Windows XP SP2BizTalk Server: Single server installation of 2006 R2 – Evaluation Copy Recently with ‘forced’ password change some of my BizTalk sample apps bounced with following error Upon digging a little, I realized that primarily the SSO service [ENTSSO.exe] wasn’t started on its own ...