by Stephen W. Thomas | Jun 30, 2015 | Azure Integration Thoughts
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...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Mar 30, 2015 | Azure Integration Thoughts
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...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Mar 17, 2015 | Azure Integration Thoughts
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...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Dec 18, 2014 | Azure Integration Thoughts
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...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Jul 28, 2014 | Azure Integration Thoughts
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 &...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Jul 7, 2014 | Azure Integration Thoughts
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...
