Anith Gopal

For those that have not seen this; the new version of OfficeDoctor is about to be released. The notice is on the MSCUI web site here . I am really excited by this especially with the way in which people are asking for it

In the previous posts , we have already see as to how we can get the custom activities shown up in the toolbox. Either the activity is part of your solution or we use the Choose Toolbox Item dialog

We have already seen how to have icons for the toolbox items. However, unfortunately, it is not the same way for the icons on the designer surface. Good news though, it is not that difficult.

I’ve recently tried to use Visual Studio 2010 for a BizTalk engagement and guess what.. there is no “BizTalk Project” template in 2010 version of VS. I haven’t managed to find such a template and after searching for a couple of hours i found many posts saying that this is not possible

For those interested the presentations can be found at http://www.mshug.org/events/exchange_Feb2010.aspx ENJOY!…( read more )

LookingGlass is a new technology that Microsoft has developed to make Social Media data (twitter, blogs, Flickr, YouTube, etc.) useful to organisations and to make those conversations happening out on the internet actionable and measurable.  As the social media phenomena snowballs, it will be increasingly valuable to Government to listen to and to make proactive use of this information as a way to measure sentiment about policies and initiatives, forge insights about citizens and better target public services.  We all hear about how social networks are driving more traffic so it is useful to understand how this environment is changing and evolving to get better traction with public service digital marketing efforts.

Om ditt företag funderar på att gå med i kompetensen Virtualisering så har vi ett bra tips. Addskills har tagit fram ett kurspaket anpassat efter den kompetensen bl a genom att slå ihop olika kurser och komprimerat till en fyradagarskurs.

One of my customers is using soapUI for testing web services and as i got really surprised with the features and capabilities the tool has i decided to post about it.  Check the references section at the end of the post to download the tool.   What is SOAP UI briefly? soapUI is a free and open source   desktop application for inspecting Web Services invoking Web Services developing Web Services Web Services Simulation and Mocking Functional, Load and Compliance testing of Web Services It is mainly aimed at developers and testers providing or consuming WSDL or REST based Web Services (Java, .net , etc)

At the time to write this post the newest release of  BizTalk was 2009 R2 Notes: There is no supportability with Visual Studio 2008 , it must be on SP1 (x)   BizTalk 2009 R2 with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 if using developer tools with BizTalk 2009 R2 then you should use VS2010 Customers can still install / upgrade to BizTalk 2009 R2 from BTS 2009 and 2006 R2, as long as they don’t have and want developer tools. If using VS2010 you will get the new mapper  with BTS 2009 R2

“Host message queue size, the spool table size or the tracking table size exceed the specified threshold” As it is stated on  “ How BizTalk Server Implements Host Throttling ”  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa559893(BTS.10).aspx , message Publishing throttling state = 6 could be raised due to the following reasons (one or all of them) The SQL Agent jobs used by BizTalk Server to maintain the BizTalk Server databases not running or are running slowly. Down-stream components are not processing messages from the in-memory queue in a timely manner.

I have been in a customer recently that had this rare alert in the SQL Server Log while running the TrackedMessages_Copy_BizTalkMsgBoxDb job (never seen before) “Executed as user: USERNAME . Invalid object name ‘BizTalkDTADb.dbo.Tracking_Parts1′ . [SQLSTATE 42S02] (Error 208).  The step failed.” At first glance i thought it was a security issue concerning the SQL Server Agent account rights within the database but it was not the case, since the SQL Server agent was well configured and has access to all databases in the instance

The recent ‘snow events’ have demonstrated the value of using Unified Communications to keep organisations running and people productive while there is mayhem on all forms of transport. I am not forecasting any more significant disruption imminently with more snow falls.   I’ll leave weather forecasting to the Met Office.