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29/11/2007

BTSUG Dec 5th - User Group Meeting: Bring on Christmas and RFID (& XBOX360 shh...)

Hi all and welcome to our last meeting of the year.

I know it's Christmas soon and we're all checking out the best gifts to get.......well I got thinking..... why don't we have a 'try before you buy' session with a xbox360/media extender etc??

We also need to make it Educational as well, so here's the line up for next Dec 5th.

Where:
Microsoft, North Ryde
1 Epping Road

When:
6pm - Beer + Pizza
6.30pm - Kick off
Dec 5th 2007

1. Introduction to BizTalk RFID Services - 101
Presenter: Scott Scovell - Scott has extensive experience in EDI and BizTalk RFID Services.
He has recently been part of a team that has created the Microsoft BizTalk RFID Courseware, and is always eager to share his knowledge and lend an ear.

Session Outline:
BizTalk RFID Services is new to the BizTalk Product Suite, being able to enable production lines, track and trace and various other scenarios with RFID technology is key for companies to maintain a competitive edge.

This presentation will cover:

1. Setting up and configuring BizTalk RFID Services
2. Plugging in a real RFID Reader Device
3. Reading/Writing Tags within a BizTalk RFID Process.
4. Extending and customising RFID Services.

2. XBOX 360 'Christmas Evaluation' Session
Come along and road test some XBOX 360's with us for Christmas!

I'm looking forward to a great meeting and hope to see you all there.

Many thanks,

Mick.
p.s. Let me know if you're coming (so I know how many xbox controllers to put out)

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22/11/2007

CodePlex Sample - distributed Pub/Sub model

I recently came across - Distributed Pub/Sub Project up on CodePlex (judging by its date/time stamp this project has been there for a little while)

What is interesting is to see where MS are looking to take these sort of systems and why - the whitepaper is a *must* read.

Coming from the land of BizTalk where we typically eat/sleep/breathe pub/sub - here is a 'new' prototype project designed at building a low latency distributed pub/sub eventing system (but I won't mention ESB .... I promise :) )

Check it out - I'd love to know your thoughts

Cheers,

Mick.

.NET 3.5 Framework has landed

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=333325FD-AE52-4E35-B531-508D977D32A6&displaylang=en

Live and very available.

One of the biggest benefits I see is the WorkflowHostService class - a class that provides the glue between the WF world and the WCF world....very nice!

Enjoy!

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9/11/2007

BizTalk 2007 LoadGen hits the streets..... how fast can you go??

I came across a previous comment on my blog from Thiago and noticed his sensational and very comprehensive article in setting up Load Gen on a BTS project (equipped with pictures!!!).

Grab LoadGen here

and check out his great Article here - ahhh if only all the manuals were this easy :)

Well done Thiago - keep it up!

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8/11/2007

BizTalk RFID Training - Microsoft commission Breeze to provide a course

Talk about exciting times - we were developing a great course started pre-R2 launch and were just working out some of the finer details on this, when the folks at MS came along and loved the course and asked to provide a version for them.

"Why not?", I said and away we went.

Here's the course outline with MS Training dates scheduled in Sydney, Singapore, Beijing + Redmond in the near future (I guess we'll have great frequent flyers :))

BizTalk RFID End To End Course Outline

We decided to call it 'BizTalk RFID End-to-End' which implies we take the student right from the hardware in your face layer, to watching 'enriched data' pop out in BizTalk Server and BAM, while consuming some WCF Services along the way.

Also in the RFID space I did a joint interview with Steve Sloan (MS BizTalk team - great down to earth guy) and a PodCast (first one :))

Interview - Australian Manufacturing

Podcast - Australian Manufacturing Podcast
(this brought back some of my past comedy routines when I performed on stage.....)

Enjoy!

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Oct 31st session was great

We had a halloween special user group meeting!

Discussing the capabilities and possibilities of a re-usable BizTalk Framework.

Thanks to all that came - getting set for our XBOX night on Nov28th - see you there!

Presentation can be found here

DEMO CODE HERE

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17/10/2007

BizTalk: Operations Manager 2007 BizTalk converted MOM Pack!!

Hi guys, if you've ever embarked down the 'hey I want to monitor my bts system through Operations Center 2007', you'll realise that there is a fair conversion process to take the original BTS2006 MOM Pack from *.AKM format to the newer *.XML format.

Essentially you do:

1) Install a conversion tool on MOM 2005 SP1 machine

2) run the conversion process

3) take the exported file to your Operations Manager 2007

4) Import the *.XML to Ops Mgr 2007 to generate the classes.

Or........ you could download the ready made version - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=389FCB89-F4CF-46D7-BC6E-57830D234F91&displaylang=en

Wow what a winner!!!!

Problem solved....... cross that one off the list smile_regular

16/10/2007

Lee leaves us with a secret in BizTalk 2006 R2

http://blogs.msdn.com/biztalk_core_engine/archive/2007/03/31/hidden-gem-in-biztalk-2006-r2.aspx

The instances table in the msgbox has a newly added column (in R2 only) to that shows the shape on where the Orch is blocked on.

So if there's a stack of Dehydrated Orchs in your system, you know what they are waiting on rather than use Orch Debugger.

Thanks Lee, you'll be missed!

Mick.

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13/10/2007

Up for installing BizTalk RFID Services?

Hard working and always available 'Big Kev' aka Scott Scovell has come up with a gem in his latest blog post.

Grab the sequence and the order of components, as well as finer details around the need to change BizTalk RFID Services from using your default website (usually if Sharepoint is on the box, then it's a good idea to)

Well done Scotty! Nice one.

Up for installing BizTalk RFID Services?

Hard working and always available 'Big Kev' aka Scott Scovell has come up with a gem in his latest blog post.

Well done Scotty! Nice one.

Posted at 6:36 PM by Mick | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

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