Azure Integration and AI, From the Field
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How to Name Output Files Inside An Orchestration
In many cases it can be useful to know the exact name of your output file that will be sent from your Orchestration...
Parallel Convoys (Concurrent Receive) in BizTalk
In the past, I have tended to focus on sequential convoys. Now, I decided to take a look at Concurrent Convoys. First...
How To Create Nodes from Flat Data in BizTalk Maps
It can sometimes be challenging when mapping schemas in BizTalk 2004. One common problem is when the inbound document...
Using XPath Inside BizTalk Orchestrations
Working with XPath inside Orchestrations is a powerful and simple feature of BizTalk 2004. The help guide does a good...
How To Assign an InfoPath Form to a Message in BizTalk
InfoPath is something I heard a lot about several months ago, but not much since then. Recently, I had to set an...
How to Allow Unrecognized Messages on Send Ports Using Message Context
Have you seen an error that looks like the one below on your Send Pipelines? There was a failure executing the send...
Using Delivery Notification with Send Port Groups
I found out tonight that Delivery Notification set to Transmitted works differently for Send Groups. In the case of...
Property Promotion and Demotion in BizTalk
I think most BizTalk users have some idea about what Property Promotion is. I would say Property Promotion is the...
Role Links in BizTalk Server 2004
Make sure you check out Todd Uhl’s Blog. He has a sample working with Role Links in BizTalk 2004. This is...