IP Restrictions in Logic Apps

Recently, I discovered a new tab for Logic Apps resources in the Azure portal, named Workflow Settings. Workflow settings is a very generic name, but it's good to know that it includes additional access control configuration, through inbound IP restrictions. There are two types of restrictions possible: on the runtime and on the run history. Let's have a closer look!

Variables in Parallel For-each Loops

During the past weeks, I received quite some questions about the behaviour of variables inside a non-sequential for-each loop. It does not always behave as one might expect. This post describes a potential issue you might encounter, explains the reason why and provides a solution to get it solved.

ESB Remove Namespace Pipeline Component and Nillable Nodes

During a migration from BizTalk 2006R2 to BizTalk 2016 we ran into an issue with the “ESB Remove Namespace” pipeline component. This component is available out-of-the box when the ESB Toolkit is installed and is used to remove all namespaces from a message.

Building High Performance APIs with Azure Search

Exposing data with different content types in a performant way can be a challenging problem to solve, Azure Search tackles this problem by providing a full-text search experience for web and mobile applications.

Azure API Management - Migrate to Versions and Revisions

Azure API Management Versions and Revisions went GA. It's time to choose a version scheme and migrate a flat list of APIs into a versionset.

Inbound / Outbound Maps in Logic Apps

BizTalk Server offers a great feature that both inbound (receive ports) and outbound maps (send ports) can be executed in dynamic fashion, depending on the message type of the message. This message type is defined as rootNodeNamespace#rootNodeName. Below, you can find an example of a receive port configured with several inbound maps.