by Stephen W. Thomas | Mar 21, 2005 | Azure Integration Thoughts
It is a common request. How can I debatch a message into smaller batches rather than single messages inside BizTalk 2004? I have tried many times to get this accomplished natively inside the pipeline. One would think it would be as easy as setting the group property...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Mar 8, 2005 | Azure Integration Thoughts
The help guide gives many excellent examples of using WMI to perform a large variety of useful tasks in BizTalk 2004. One of the little known features is the ability to have suspended messages saved to a file at the time of suspense. I would assume this is govern by...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Feb 16, 2005 | Azure Integration Thoughts
Yesterday Microsoft released a BizTalk 2004 Adapter for MSMQ v2.0. This works with MSMQ 2.0 and 3.0. Here are the key features from the download site: The BizTalk 2004 Adapter for MSMQ provides support for sending and receiving messages using MSMQ 2.0 and 3.0, and...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Feb 11, 2005 | Azure Integration Thoughts
I guess these came out several days ago. I did not hear about it until now. Anyways, updated BizTalk 2004 Documentationisavailable here.
by Stephen W. Thomas | Feb 10, 2005 | Azure Integration Thoughts
I have talked a lot in the past about Convoys. But, under the covers what really makes Convoy message processing different? What makes a Convoy a Convoy? To sum it all up into one sentence: Convoys require database level message-to-Orchestration correlation...
by Stephen W. Thomas | Feb 3, 2005 | Azure Integration Thoughts
This is a cool feature of BizTalk 2004! It allows you to map many documents into one or map one document into many. In either case, your inputs will not equal your outputs. This type of mapping does require some up front planning and careful consideration. First off,...
