BizTalk Webcasts

BizTalk - Calling Services Reliability

Alan Smith — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:44:26 GMT

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This webcast is the third in a series looking at the service aggregator pattern in BizTalk Server 2009. The other webcasts are BizTalk Service Aggregator and BizTalk Orchestration Performance.

This webcast will look at utilizing the built in Send Port retry functionality in BizTalk Server to ensure that services are called reliably in the event to short term unavailability.

I've used BizTalk Server 2009 for this webcast, but BizTalk Server 2004, 2006, or 2006 R2 provide the same retry functionality. You will need BizTalk Server 2006 R2 or 2009 to leverage the WCF adapters.

Level: 300

In this webcast you will see

Send port retry configuration
BizTalk reliable messaging

BizTalk - Orchestration Performance

Alan Smith — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:42:51 GMT

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This webcast will start with the basic BizTalk Server Aggregator that was build in the previous webcast and look at how the design can be improved to provide lower latency and better performance. The correct use of the parallel actions shape and atomic scope shape will be discussed and implemented and the new design tested against the old design to evaluate the improvements in latency and performance.

Level: 300

In this webcast you will see

Calling services in parallel
Atomic scope
Reducing persistence

BizTalk - Service Aggregator

Alan Smith — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:31:12 GMT

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This webcast will look at implementing a service aggregator pattern to call three WCF services that will book a hotel, flight and conference for attendees of a conference. The design will be kept simple for now, and will be optimized and made more reliable in future webcasts.

Level: 200

In this webcast you will see

Adding WCF service references
Creating a service aggregator
Calling WCF services from an orchestration
Creating WCF send ports

BizTalk – BAM Part 2: Views

Alan Smith — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:25:20 GMT

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This webcast will continue from "BizTalk - BAM Part 1: Activities", and add a BAM view to the Sushi Process BAM activity. The view will be used to display information to a restaraunt manager, who is interested in the efficient of the sushi production process, and also the production trents in the restaurant in real time.

Level: 200

Continuation from "BAM Part 1: Activities" webcast

In this webcast you will see

Creating a BAM View
Defining a duration
Defining dimensions and measures
Creating a pivot table
Using the BAM portal

BizTalk – BAM Part 1: Activities

Alan Smith — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:22:31 GMT

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This webcast will demonstrate how a simple BAM solution can be applied to a real world scenario to produce real time data relating to a business process running in BizTalk Server. The BAM implementation will use a basic BAM activity to track sushi production in a restaurant, and a WPF application to display the data to the sushi chefs in real time.

The "Sequential Convoy Sushi Server" application will be used as the BizTalk Server process. This application is described in detail in its own webcast.

Level: 200

In this webcast you will see

Designing a BAM Solution
Creating a BAM Activity
Deploying a BAM Definition
Creating a Tracking Profile
Viewing BAM Data

BizTalk – Multibox Install

Alan Smith — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:19:34 GMT

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This webcast runs through the installation of the core BizTalk components in a multi server environment using Virtual PC images.

It's based on one of the labs in the QuickLearn BizTalk for Administrators course.

Level: 300

In this webcast you will see

Pre installation Tasks

Create users and groups
Create databases

Installation

Install SSO Master Secret Server
Create BizTalk group on first BizTalk server
Join BizTalk group on second BizTalk server

BizTalk - Custom XSLT Mapping

Alan Smith — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:22:18 GMT

This webcast has moved here.

There are so many mapping questions on the BizTalk forums where the answer is "Use custom XSLT instead of the mapper", so I've been planning on getting this webcast out for a while.

In this webcast you will see

Problems encountered developing complex maps
Replacing mapper functionality with custom XSLT
Using custom XSLT for EDI mapping

Sorry for the very bad editing, I cut out the boring bits and mistakes to keep the time down.

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BizTalk - Sequential Convoy Sushi Server

Alan Smith — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:08:52 GMT

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In this webcast you will see

Introduction to Convoys
Implementation of a Sequential Convoy

I like this webcast best so far. I've been using the "Sushi Server" demo when teaching BizTalk courses. The sushi client is written using WPF, I'm starting to get the basics of it now, and it's fun to work with. Expect to see it appearing in more webcasts...

BizTalk Webcasts

BizTalk - Calling Services Reliability

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BizTalk - Orchestration Performance

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BizTalk - Service Aggregator

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BizTalk – BAM Part 2: Views

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BizTalk – BAM Part 1: Activities

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BizTalk – Multibox Install

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BizTalk - Custom XSLT Mapping

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BizTalk - Sequential Convoy Sushi Server

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BizTalk - Advanced Correlation and Zombies

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BizTalk - Basic Correlation

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