Configuring two-way SSL Authentication - Part 1

I recently encountered the requirement to integrate with an external party using 2way (or mutual) authentication using certificates. In my scenario I had to send messages to an external webservice, hosted by a business partner, and I had to receive messages also using a webservice.

Batching Outgoing EDI Messages

Recently I was asked by a customer to create a seemingly simple interface. This involved a flat file message, containing multiple invoices, which would be received, transformed into an EDI format and sent to one of their customers. The interface needed to be setup in such a way that a single message containing multiple invoices would be received, and a single message containing the invoices would be sent out.

Monitoring suspended orchestrations using System Center Operations Manager

Using the standard configuration for monitoring suspended orchestrations with System Center Operations Manager isn't that useful for BizTalk monitoring. Let's take the orchestration monitoring to the next level.

Impersonate WCF Credentials when calling a WCF Service

One of the requirements that I regularly encounter is that I need to call WCF TCP or WCF Web with trusted authentication.My development laptop or my virtual machines are never member of the customer domain so that makes it almost impossible to develop and test against services of the customer. For Example, Microsoft Dynamics is often used with WCF-TCP which only allows for trusted authentication.

Hosting WCF receive locations using the isolated host

I was recently asked to support an organization using BizTalk which, after performing maintenance on their BizTalk environment, encountered unexpected messages that had entered the message-box. Additionally, a significant amount of these messages were duplicates. In this blog post I would like to share the cause of this issue and how it can be prevented.

Tips and tricks for BizTalk monitoring with PowerShell

Tips and tricks for BizTalk monitoring with PowerShell. In this blog post I explain how you can use PowerShell to monitor a frequently failing receive location in BizTalk 2006.