BTS 2016 Feature Pack I - Management & Operational API

Recently, the product team released a first feature pack for BizTalk Server 2016. Via this way, Microsoft aims to provide more agility into the release model of BizTalk Server. The feature pack contains a lot of interesting features, of which the brand new Management & Operational API is an important one. Let's have a look at what's included!

BTS 2016 Feature Pack I - Scheduling capabilities

Recently, the product team released a first feature pack for BizTalk Server 2016. Via this way, Microsoft aims to provide more agility into the release model of BizTalk Server. The feature pack contains a lot of new and interesting features, of which the new scheduling capabilities is an important one. Let's have a look at what's included!

Rearguard action

"One in ten IT specialists in Belgium is a cheap Indian," some media recently wrote. They work for minimum wages, ensuring unfair competition, and do not make a fair contribution to our welfare state, since they are not covered by Belgian social security. It was the socialist trade union BBTK who rang the bell. "Belgian employees are losing their jobs and the government is missing out on 26 million euros each year," they complained. Employers in the Belgian IT sector deliberately abuse the employment status of their Indian programmers to find people on the cheap. Ouch, that hurts.

BTS 2016 Feature Pack I - Continuous Deployment Walk-Through

Recently, the product team released a first feature pack for BizTalk Server 2016. Via this way, Microsoft aims to provide more agility into the release model of BizTalk Server. The feature pack contains a lot of new and interesting features, of which the automated deployment from VSTS is probably the most important one. This blog post contains a detailed walk-through.

Logic Apps Batching

This blog post dives into the details of how you can achieve batching with Logic Apps. Batching is still a highly demanded feature for a middle-ware layer. It's mostly introduced to reduce the performance impact on the target system or for functional purposes. Let's have a closer look.

JSON Encoder Type Bug

Since the introduction of BizTalk 2013 R2, Microsoft has supplied an out of the box JSON encoder pipeline component. I’ve used this component many times in the past, but recently ran into an issue while using this component.