BizTalk Server Learning Path for Pluralsight
I have been an author with Pluralsight for the past 3 years. Before I was an author I was always a huge fan and I found that for just $29 a month for unlimited access to all training courses is a deal! They now have over 3,700+ courses to pick from. What is even...
New Pluralsight Course: Traveling and Loyalty Programs Best Practices
While my main passion in life is Integration with Microsoft Technologies, a close second is traveling. With traveling comes my “addiction” to earning airline miles, hotel points, and chasing status! The way I see it is by using miles and points we can travel...
Windows Azure Automation Error – user_realm_discovery_failed Solved
I was working with Windows Azure Automation using a MSDN account to create a run book that will run nightly to turn off all my running virtual machines. This is super easy and you area even provided a sample script that all you need to do is set your Active...
London BizTalk Summit 2015 – See You There!
I am excited to be attending and presenting at the 2015 London BizTalk Summit on April 12th and 13th. Last year I talked about Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and walked through creating BizTalk environments on the fly using PowerShell. This...
Working with CDATA Elements inside a BizTalk Map
For the past 14 years I have not done a lot with CDATA Elements. If you do not know much about them, they are tags you put around a blob of data to tell the XML parsing systems to skip over them. It will allow you to have < and & inside the data...
BizTalk Developers Needed for a 6 Month Contract – 50%+ Remote
My current client is looking for a few additional BizTalk Developers to come work with us! They could start as soon as next week. This would be a 6 month contract. The work is mostly remote (work from home) but travel to the client site up to 50% may be required. All...
Here is to 10 Years of Blogging on BizTalk Server!
I was just looking around some of my older blog posts and noticed today is my 10 year Anniversary of starting my blog! My first blog post was titled “Welcome to My BizTalk Blog”. Since then, I have made 235 blog posts and uploaded over 76 code samples &...
New Pluralsight Course on Intro to BizTalk Server 2013 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Toolkit is Live!
I am excited to announce the release of my 2nd course with Pluralsight! This course is called “Intro to BizTalk Server 2013 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Toolkit”. This course is designed for an existing BizTalk Developer who has little to no exposure to...
Tweet, Comment, or Post Your Way to One of 12 Great Prizes!
Time is running out to enter my contest to win one of 12 great prizes! To enter, simply take a look at my new PowerShell scripts located here: Single Server Microsoft Azure BizTalk 2013 Developer Edition Setup Scripts Domain Microsoft Azure BizTalk 2013 Enterprise...
Build an Azure IaaS BizTalk Single Server or Domain – Win $100 or other Great Prizes
This is the biggest contest I have had in the 10+ years I have been blogging! In all12 prizes to give away! The top prize of $100 will be awarded to the person with the best feedback! This could be good, bad, doesn’t matter just provide an honest review and...
End to End BizTalk Domain Setup in Windows Azure IaaS Scripts
Got a little over an hour? Get a full featured multi-server BizTalk 2013 domain running in Windows Azure IaaS! It is fully configured with Send, Receive, Processing, and Tracking hosts all ready to go. Since it is scripted, it is repeatable so you...
Updated BizTalk 2013 Development Azure VM Creation Scripts
I have made some updated to the PowerShell scripts I have for creating a new BizTalk Server 2013 Development Virtual Machine inside Microsoft Azure. Download the files here: BizTalk Development Azure VM Creation Scripts Important points to note: This will only...