BizTalk 2013 Upgrade Paths

When working with a lifecycle product such as Microsoft BizTalk Server, it is recommend to always keep a close eye on the support lifecycle and the one of its supported platforms. Codit can help in making the right decision in regard to the upgrade of your BizTalk environment

Build and Deploy with the MSBuild Extension Pack

In this post I try to explain how to automate your deployment using the MSBuild Extension Pack. First I work through a general scenario, deploying your assemblies on your Development machine, extracting an MSI and deploying that to Test. At the end I included some extra scenarios.

Logical (Existence) functoid in BizTalk 2013

Today I was migrating a project from BizTalk 2010 to BizTalk 2013. I have done this several times so I wasn’t expecting any problems. I knew of the changes to the transformation engine in BizTalk 2013 and I knew that something had changed with Booleans. But today I had some problems with the combination of transformations and Booleans: I encountered a problem with the Logical Existence functoid

Microsoft Azure API Management - Getting started

A general overview of the Microsoft Azure API Management that was recently released at MSTechEd North America on May 12th.

Pre-authenticating external clients in non-claims-aware applications with the Server 2012 R2 ADFS Web Application Proxy

The Web Application Proxy service in Windows Server 2012 can be used to provide pre-authentication and backend authorization to non-claims aware applications published with Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) using Kerberos for external clients.

SCOM: Availability Monitor for suspended orchestrations

Let's take a deeper look into the default monitoring for suspended orchestrations and the alerts it generates. Certainly a timesaver if you need to keep a close eye on your suspended instances.