“Error creating UDDI entries... Error 285023” – are you getting this while attempting to get the ESB Guidance up and running?
If your event log has an entry containing “UDDI_ERROR_AUTHTOKENREQUIRED_NOTOKENPUBLISHATTEMPT” chances are you have anonymous authentication enabled for your UDDI virtual directory. Turn it off, and try again. If this isn’t the issue (or you are having other UDDI issues while installing the ESB Guidance) try cranking up logging to “verbose” for the UDDI service itself. (See Administrative tools, UDDI Services, properties on your machine.) There is generally enough context in there to troubleshoot…
I’ll be doing two talks on Team Foundation Server at the upcoming Minnesota Developers Conference ( MDC 2007) on August 22nd, 2007. One talk will be on release management (branching strategies, deployment, etc.) and another on options for using Scrum with TFS. Should be a great conference all around – four great tracks and what looks to be a great keynote on BizTalk RFID solutions.
Late notice (again) but if you can…be sure to join us at 6:00 pm on Thursday, September 21st at the local Microsoft office in Bloomington. You can register here.
Scott Colestock (me) will be presenting this month on the topic of relating what you learn during performance testing of a BizTalk application to your operations/monitoring strategy. Should be good fun (really!) and of course we’ll have the usual food and beverages.
Late notice, I know, but if you can...be sure to join us at 6:00 pm at the local Microsoft office in Bloomington!
Jim Gaudette will be discussing reusability in BizTalk, and hey, food and beverages provided.
I had the pleasure of delivering a short talk at the
Business Process Integration & Workflow Conference last week in
Redmond. The whole conference was great, especially meeting quite a few
folks in person I'd only conversed with via email. Being
notified of MVP status for BizTalk on Friday was a great cap to the week!
Although the sample I presented during my talk isn't quite ready to release,
the slides (on scatter/gather scenarios in BizTalk) can be downloaded
here.
I’ve been involved a bit in getting a local BizTalk user group started – and really looking forward to seeing it get off the ground! The first time we’ll meet is Thursday, September 22nd from 6:00pm – 7:30pm, at the Microsoft offices in Bloomington.
You can expect the focus to be both on present development and operational issues for BizTalk 2004, as well as early hands-on time with BizTalk 2006. Food, beverages, fellow biztalkers…gotta love it.
Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it to the PDC this year...However, a good colleague by the name of Jordan Terrell has put together this great PST file for the PDC with all the sessions as calendar appointments. (Open as a data file in Outlook, and in the Calendar view, you will be able to select a calendar corresponding to each of the conference tracks.)
Will this be the last place on the web that trumpets the BizTalk 2006
beta? Likely not, but I did see it in quite a few places today.
Head to http://beta.microsoft.com with
your passport and 'BizTalkBetaTeam' for a guest ID, and then wait
patiently. (While you're waiting, consider building out a VPC image with
VS2005 beta 2 and, presumably, the latest SQL 2005 bits. SQL 2000
would be fine as well, as BizTalk 2006 will not require SQL 2005.)
This...is going to be a great release. Nothing so revolutionary that you
can't leverage all the skills that you (or your staff) have already
learned. Yet, there are many, many important feature additions and "rough
edges" removed.
Rattling off a few of the new items:
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In-order delivery for any adapter that supports it (i.e. MSMQ, MQSeries,
etc.) In 2004, only MSMQ/T supported this. (Of course, a faulty
orchestration can break first-in-first-out - more on that in a later post.)
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The introduction of an "Application" concept for grouping BizTalk
assets - which extends to orchestrations, role links, send port groups, send
ports, receive ports, receive locations, policies, schemas, maps,
pipelines, other resources (e.g. soap proxies), you name it!
Just as importantly, the management infrastructure understands applications -
so health/management views can be narrowed down appropriately.
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The management infrastructure has been completely encapsulated in an MMC - HAT
is largely hidden. More interesting is that the MMC can manage multiple
BizTalk groups - and can do so remotely (by definition...)
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A packaging/deployment solution that looks good - we'll have more to say about
that in the coming weeks! The developer experience in particular looks to
be quite good. Likely still some value-add to be done on the server side.
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Ability to route failed messages - and subscribe in your orchestrations.
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Calling pipelines from within orchestrations (no more loopback adapter or
similar solutions needed...)
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Zoom and expand/collapse-state-preservation within orchestrations. (So
when you collapse that big group or scope shape, it will stay collapsed
across close/re-open.)
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BAM integration with SQL Notification Services.
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"Operator Role" has been defined to make allocating administration tasks a bit
easier from a security perspective.
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Pipelines can have per-instance configuration - saving you from recreating what
were essentially a lot of duplicate pipelines! (This was possible in
2004, I believe - but not exposed cleanly.)
This will be fun...I look forward to exploring the beta bits (man, the CTP was
pretty short-lived...!)
Just a few notes on what I'll be up to in the next month or two...
Do you use the Deployment Framework for BizTalk? Or just have general questions on automating BizTalk deployments? You can attend my session at TechEd 2005 - Friday June 10th, 10:45am to 12:00pm in the BPI Cabana, where I'll be doing a talk on those topics...
I'll also be speaking at the Microsoft DevCon event on my "other favorite" topic, Windows Mobile. The focus will be on what is new for Visual Studio 2005 in the mobile arena...The conference will also be covering the new Team System offerings, ASP.NET 2.0, and quite a few other VS2005 topics. Check it out...
A short while ago, I did a presentation for the Twin Cities .NET user group on log4net. (You might recall an earlier blog entry where I discussed using log4net with BizTalk 2004...)
The presentation was not specific to BizTalk 2004 - instead, it attempts to describe why I think the log4net library is so very well thought out. You can grab it here, if you like.
The last slide references Loren Halvorsen's comparison of log4net and the new Microsoft Enterprise Library Logging Block, which I would recommend taking a look at (the comparison, that is.) Tom Hollander (among many others!) later weighed in with this piece.
Lastly, 1.2.9 beta of log4net has recently become available (release notes here)....However, my extensions to log4net have not yet been updated to reflect this new drop. I'll be sure to post when I'm able to update.
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