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BizTalk Community series: Introducing DPS Bali

I have a new story for BizTalk Community Series before I will be heading of to the MVP Summit . Currently I am staying with Kent Weare in Calgary and yesterday did a presentation at his company on versatile adapter pack capabilities. Kent and Bil Simser did presentations on Service Bus, Queues, Topics and SharePoint 2010. It was pretty amazing. Ok now to the story. Recently I have had a chat with DPS Bali , an active BizTalk forum member and blogger. Like me he likes to play field hockey , so I finally met someone that likes BizTalk and field hockey. DPS Bali comes from the valley of Kashmir in the northern part of India. He is an alumni of the Burn Hall School situated near the famous Dal Lake in Srinagar . He has based his life and experience on school’s motto Industria- Floremus In toil we shall Flourish .  DPS Bali is currently a Technical Architect with Fulcrum Worldwide . Besides his role as architect he is also an Integration SME, specializing in creating BizTalk

BizTalk Community series: Introducing Rajesh Kolla

Currently there is a lot of activity in BizTalk community. BizTalkadminsblogging has had a flying start with a lot of contributions. Number of BizTalk related articles on the TechNet wiki is growing . Besides the wiki a lot of BizTalk pro’s are active on blogs and forums. So today I like to continue with the fifth story in the BizTalk Community Series that brings active BizTalk community members to the foreground. The story today is on Rajesh Kolla . I had a little chat with Rajesh through email. Rajesh Kolla , is working with Microsoft technologies (ASP.NET, WCF, SQL Server, MCMS, WinForms and son on) since 2002.  He is currently working as Managing Consultant with Sogeti USA based out of Houston , TX, USA. Rasjesh has been working with BizTalk since 2006. He worked with following versions of BizTalk Server: 2004, 2006, 2006 R2, 2009 and 2010. His day to day job includes architecting integration solutions, development, and deployment of BizTalk applications. His view on the Bi

My next ten TechNet Wiki Articles on BizTalk Continued….

Last couple of weeks I written a number of wiki articles for TechNet Wiki . The TechNet Wiki is a place, where content is generated by the community and Microsoft employees about Microsoft technologies and products for the community. I very much like the concept and in November 2011 I completed my first ten articles . Next ten were created by 15th of January. Now a few weeks later I have finished the next ten: First on MSDTC that plays an important role in a BizTalk environment A couple of survival guides: BizTalk Server 2010: Enterprise SSO Survival Guide Host Integration Server 2010: Survival Guide BizTalk Orchestrations XPath: Survival Guide BizTalk Server 2010: RFID Survival Guide One BizTalk Pricing and Licensing (mostly the work has been done by Tord G. Nordahl ) List of BizTalk Books ranging from BizTalk 2004 to current 2010 version Combination of BizTalk and PowerShell: BizTalk Server 2010: PowerShell An article on how to determine the version and edition of B

Interview with a BizTalk MVP Wiki Ninja!!! - Sandro Pereira

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I have done an interview with fellow BizTalk MVP Sandro . You can read it here . Sandro is one of the technical reviewers of my forthcoming BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook . Enjoy the story!

A flying start for BizTalkAdminsblogging.com

BizTalkadminsblogging has had a tremendous start. Within a week and a half 13 posts already and this will be number 14. An average almost two blog posts a day. This reflects the high demand for BizTalk administration related information, the need for sharing it and desire to create more exposure for this aspect of BizTalk Server. Jeroen and Joris have done an excellent job setting up this blog site, running and maintaining it. The recent posts have touched topics like PowerShell, Microsoft Operation Framework, and so on. There is also a TechNet Wiki, where some of the bloggers and others have written articles on BizTalk Administration. I , Tord G. Nordahl , Sandro Pereira , Howard S. Edidin and Microsoft have written the following articles that are related to BizTalk administration: BizTalk Server 2010 - Tools BizTalk Server: Disaster Recovery BizTalk Monitoring Tools Administering BizTalk 2010 - Roles and Responsibilities BizTalk Server 2010: MSDTC Installing Biz

BizTalk Community series: Introducing Abhijit Mahato

Writing these stories so far on community members has been a great experience and I received a lot of positive feedback. The stories continue with the fourth story in the BizTalk Community Series that brings active BizTalk community members to the foreground. The story today is on Abhijit Mahato . He is a Microsoft Community Contributor since 2011, a blogger and an active BizTalk forum member . Abhijit is married to his lovely wife Laxmi, and they are expecting their first child in March 2012. His family lives in Kolkata , also known as “The City of Joy, City of Palaces, the Cultural capital of India”, located in the eastern part of India. Abhijit currently works as a Senior BizTalk Consultant at Capgemini , one of the world’s largest IT Services, Consulting and Outsourcing companies with over 115,000 people operating in 40 countries. His job involves working with customers on integration projects especially using BizTalk Server, WCF (.Net) and SQL Server (SSIS). He loves to d