A few months ago, I was playing around with BizTalk Server hybrid Integration, in this case, trying to send messages from Logic App to BizTalk Server by using the Send message action of the Logic app BizTalk Server connector. While I conducted the first set of tests, I realized my Logic App was failing to… Read More »

BizTalk Server leverages the Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) capabilities for securely storing critical information such as secure configuration properties (for example, the proxy user ID, and proxy password) for the BizTalk adapters. Therefore, the BizTalk Server requires SSO to work properly. But it also can keep your own application configuration data in the SSO database,… Read More »

Patrick Wellink, a long-time BizTalk Server consultant from the Netherlands, asked me to broadcast this news. I’m happy to do it because I know that many of you use and like BizTalk Deployment Framework (BTDF) to perform deployment across your environments. Patrick suppresses a need by developing a Visual Studio 2019 plugin (VSIX) for BizTalk Server… Read More »

It has been a while since I didn’t follow carefully all the comments or issues posted on my blog or GitHub regarding BizTalk Scheduled Task Adapter. It was not by lack of interest but instead due to my lack of free time or just because I was focused on other projects or contributions. Since I… Read More »

Once again, after many requests and many postponements, due to my unavailability and free time to take these tasks, BizTalk Scheduled Task Adapter is finally officially available and optimized for BizTalk Server 2020 on GitHub! The BizTalk Scheduled Task Adapter is an in-process receive adapter that executes a prescribed task on a daily, weekly or monthly schedule.… Read More »

BizTalk Server 2020 is undoubtedly the best-suited integration for the On-Premises integration platform and IaaS (Infrastructure as Service). It is also integrating cloud services with a variety of built-in adapters for the cloud, such as the Azure Logic Apps. The Azure Logic Apps adapter is used by BizTalk Server to communicate with Azure Logic Apps.… Read More »

Much has been written about the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into effect last May 28, 2018. the GDPR applies no matter where you are located, and with many organizations storing critical data in their database platforms, it will be incumbent upon them to ensure that the entire IT environment… Read More »

We live in the age of fast digital transformation. Different emerging services appear extremely fast which results in a more heterogeneous IT architecture. However, when we have this heterogeneous landscape compose of different legacy and modern systems, a major problem that may arise is how can we put all of these systems to interact with… Read More »

I previously wrote several posts about how you can Check/Get a list of BizTalk Server Cumulative Updates installed in your machines for previous versions of the product: How to check what BizTalk Server 2016 Cumulative Updates are installed in your Servers with PowerShell How to Check what BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Cumulative Updates are installed… Read More »

Starting with BizTalk Server 2020 and newer, administrators can configure BizTalk Server to generate an audit trail for management operation on application artifacts, such as to send ports, receive ports, receive locations, orchestrations, and resources. Auditing of suspend/resume/terminate operations on service instances is also possible. This feature may not be perfect yet, and it has… Read More »