Today is an important day. Microsoft has given their BizTalk Server 2016 the RTM status. This is the 10th version of BizTalk, making it a very stable Middleware System. Why upgrade to BizTalk Server 2016: * Hybrid connectivity * Integration with the latest MS products * SQL Server 2016 Always On Availability Groups

At October 6 we will host a new BTUG.be session in Belgium. We have 2 nice speakers Steven Van Eycken & Massimo Crippa. They will talk about EDI Logic Apps vs Microsoft BizTalk Server & Accelerate the digital transformation with Azure API Management. You can find more information on http://btug.

A couple weeks ago the Cumulative Update 2 for BizTalk 2013R2 was released. Steven Van Eycken had some problems with the BizTalk mappings. See his Blog Post [http://www.bizzybloggers.com/2016/01/biztalk-2013-r2-cu2-failure-has-occurred-while-loading-a-type/] for more information Today Microsoft released the new CU2 package with a fix for this problem.

In my previous blog post [https://www.svenvandenbrande.be/2015/06/28/how-to-create-an-api-app-with-visual-studio/] I created a new API App. In this blog post we will deploy it to Microsoft Azure. In the solution explorer, right-click on the project and click “Publish”. Click the Profile tab and click on “Microsoft Azure

In this how-to I will explain how you can create an API App for your Logic App with Visual Studio. First we need to install the Microsoft Azure SDK. You need at least version 2.5.1. In this how-to I will install version 2.6 As always I use

It’s not a real recap for the Integration Day from 2 weeks ago. But below you can find all the presentations. 08:00 – Registration 08:45 – Keynote [http://btugbelgium.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/BTUG-Integration-Day-Keynote.pptx] (Jan Tielens [https://twitter.com/jantielens]) 09:30 – BizTalk Server Deep Dive

After multiple successful user group evening events we decided to organize a full day event. This will be the biggest integration focused event organized in Belgium. You can find more information on this page: http://www.btug.be/integration-day-2015 Registration at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/integration-day-2015-tickets-16602865618 I hope to

In this blogpost i will explain how we can use RabbitMQ on our Windows Machine so you have a nice message queuing framework. RabbitMQ needs the Erlang [http://www.erlang.org] runtime. Install Erlang runtime So we first need to donwload the latest version of the Erlang runtime [http://www.

In this how-to i will explain how you can create a Logic App. Add API Connectors First we need to get our connectors that we will use. We can do this by clicking on the “Marketplace” Then we click on “API Apps” We just select the “Twitter Connector” (if needed,

This week i attended the BizTalk Summit in London. The people of BizTalk360 [http://www.biztalk360.com/] did a great job to put everything together. 330 attendees from 20 different countries, 161 different companies all in one room. I will try to give you an overview of all the sessions.

Since 3 weeks Microsoft made the Azure Machine Learning [http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning/] generally available. But what is Machine Learning? In this blog post i try to explain what you can do with it. Machine learning is a method of teaching computers to make and improve predictions

After the previous How-to [https://www.svenvandenbrande.be/2015/02/how-to-receive-message-from-an-azure-queue-with-biztalk-2013/] about receiving a message from an Azure Queue (Servicebus), I will now talk about sending a message to an Azure Queue. We will work further with the Application from the other how-to. So we have a “full” flow. You

In this how-to we will explain how you can read messages from an Azure Queue with BizTalk 2013R2. First we will create a new application in the BizTalk Admin Console  Then we create a one-way receive port in our Application. After we created our ReceivePort, we will create our one-way

In this how-to i will explain with a sample application how we can do some messaging with Azure Queues. First we need to create a Service Bus Namespace on the Azure Portal [https://manage.windowsazure.com]. For the moment we need to use the old portal. We can’t do

In this blog post i will explain how to install the Azure Pack in your own datacenter. But first what can you do with the Windows Azure Pack? * Management portal for tenants – a customizable self-service portal for provisioning, monitoring, and managing services such as Web Site Clouds, Virtual Machine Clouds,