Good news for the BizTalk community, 2 new BizTalk books were announced by PACKT Publishing and are now available for pre-order: BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook and (MCTS): Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) Certification Guide.
📝 One-Minute Brief
This post announces the upcoming release of two essential books for the BizTalk community: “BizTalk 2010 Recipes” and “Microsoft BizTalk 2010: Line of Business Systems Integration.” Sandro highlights how these resources provide expert-level solutions for common integration challenges and deep dives into LOB systems like SAP and SharePoint.
BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook
As a technical reviewer, I had the opportunity to read the “draft”, it will be an excellent book! I may be suspect, but I really liked this book!
Authors
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Book Description
BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook is filled with over 50 BizTalk recipes, covering various proven design patterns, best practices, or simply showing you some tips and tricks you never come across.
What you will learn from this book
- Deploy a robust, durable, and performing BizTalk Environment
- Broaden your knowledge on implementing BizTalk orchestration patterns
- Enhance your toolset in instrumenting BizTalk solutions
- Deepen your knowledge and skillset on messaging security
- Apply SOA patterns with your BizTalk solution
- Extend the reach of BizTalk to the Cloud
- Leverage SCOM and other tools in supporting your BizTalk environment
- Pragmatic Use of Business Rules with BizTalk Server
- Deploy a robust and smooth-performing BizTalk environment
Book and eBook expected in April 2012.
(MCTS): Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) Certification Guide
Unlike the previous one, I confess I don’t know this book, but I’m looking forward to doing a book review on my blog.
Authors
Johan Hedberg, Kent Weare, and Morten la Cour
Book Description
(MCTS): Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) Certification Guide is a preparation guide for the latest BizTalk Server 2010 Certification. In this book, you will be provided with practical examples of the skills that will be measured on this exam.
What you will learn from this book
- Covers the core architecture of BizTalk, including publish/subscribe, context and content-based routing, receive and send ports, and other administrative artifacts.
- Create rich and useful schemas with restrictions and reusable types.
- Create maps and apply logic such as conditional mapping, looping, scripting, and external assemblies, and other map and functoid logic.
- Create orchestrations and work with messages, scopes, transactions, binding, correlation, and other shapes and processing logic.
- Handle exceptions in messaging and orchestration scenarios and recover from them using catch, compensation, and failed message routing.
- Perform administrative tasks such as installing, configuring, tuning, deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting BizTalk Server 2010 groups and solutions.
- Work with Web Services and WCF, exposing and consuming services, and applying custom configurations and behaviors.
- Use the additional features in BizTalk, such as Business Rules Engine (BRE), EDI, RFID, and Business Activity Monitoring (BAM).
Book and eBook expected in May 2012.
