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Basics of Promoted Properties In BizTalk
What are Promoted Properties and why does BizTalk have them? Long and short of it: Property promotion is about getting...
BizTalk 2004 Installation Problems on Windows 2003 With SP1
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How To Call A Receive Pipeline In an Orchestration
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BizTalk Integration with Sharepoint and InfoPath Lab
Curious on how you can use Sharepoint, InfoPath, and BizTalk 2004 together? This hands on lab will take you through a...
Sequential Flat File Message Processing Lab
Here is a 45 minute, step-by-step lab showing how to use the Flat File Disassembler, Delivery Notification, and a...
Calling a BizTalk Orchestration Exposed as a Web Service
Just a quick note about calling a BizTalk Orchestration exposed as a web service with the input and output schema that...
New BizTalk Server White Papers on MSDN
Many of these were released a few months ago in a beta form but now they are available on the Microsoft website. They...
NAck Message Processing Orchestration for BizTalk Server 2004
NAcks or Negative Acknowledgments are small SOAP messages that exist in BizTalk when a messaging error occurs. This...
TechEd 2005 Orlando Instructor Led Labs
Congratulations to everyone who is going to attend TechEd 2005 in Orlando, FL – since it is now sold out. I just...