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Why Can’t I Always Change the Region when Creating a Windows Azure Virtual Machine?

by Stephen Thomas | Sep 19, 2012 | Azure Integration Thoughts

I have been working with Windows Azure Virtual Machines for a few weeks now. As of this blog post, the preview feature is running six locations currently: West US, East US, East Asia, Southeast Asia, North Europe, and West Europe. One of the things I like about...

Running a Windows Azure Virtual Machine Locally with Hyper-V or VMware 8 / VMware 9

by Stephen Thomas | Sep 9, 2012 | Azure Integration Thoughts

This is a follow-up to my post and video on Creating a BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP Virtual Machine in Windows Azure.  I hope most of you have reviewed my earlier posts on Creating a Windows Azure Virtual Machine running BizTalk Server 2010 R2 CTP. So now what? You can...

Go from No Azure to BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP in Less Than 30 Minutes Video

by Stephen Thomas | Sep 5, 2012 | Azure Integration Thoughts

Are you experienced with Microsoft Azure? Have you tried the Free 90-Day trial? Have you activated the Virtual Machine Preview Feature? Are you up and running with BizTalk Server 2010 R2 CTP in an Azure Virtual Machine? If you answered NO to any of these questions...

Setting Up BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP in an Azure Virtual Machine using the Gallery

by Stephen Thomas | Sep 3, 2012 | Azure Integration Thoughts

BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP is now publicly available as a template inside the Azure Virtual Machine Gallery.  BizTalk 2010 R2 CTP supports Windows 8, Windows 8 Server, SQL 2012, and Visual Studio 2012 (this is the only supported version of Visual Studios). What does...

Five Rules to Simplify Large Scale BizTalk Orchestration Development

by Stephen Thomas | Jul 9, 2012 | Azure Integration Thoughts

Many times on larger BizTalk projects developers need to share working inside Projects and Orchestrations. This means at some point you will have conflicts. While Visual Studios offers the option to Auto-Merge files, I have not seen this done successfully with BizTalk...
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