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.

Using Windows Credentials in WCF-Custom adapter

When sending a message from BizTalk to an external WCF-service with Windows Credentials, the WCF-Custom adapter will ignore the credentials in the Credentials-tab and use the ones of the Host Instance.If you really need to use Windows Credentials, you'll need to create a custom Endpoint Behavior and add it to the WCF-Custom adapter.

Auto-generate class-file from an XSD

Autogenerate an class-file from an XSD every time you build your Visual Studio project with svcutil.