by Stephen W. Thomas | Sep 19, 2012 | Azure Integration Thoughts
I have been spending a lot of time the past few weeks working with the Windows Azure Virtual Machines that are currently available as a Preview Feature. The ability to be up and running with a custom hosted Virtual Machine in a matter of minutes without any extra...
by Stephen W. 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...
by Stephen W. 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...
by Stephen W. 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...
by Stephen W. 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...
by Stephen W. 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...
