It seems to me that Microsoft hides the links to these forums. You can find them on the Microsoft site, but they are buried under a drop-down list with about 100 other forums. You can ask questions and get answers in the forums below on the MSDN site (http://Social.Msdn.Microsoft.com). You can also get good answers […]
Suppose you need to create an EDI file with the ISA header that looks like this: ISA*00*1111111111*00*1111111111*ZZ*ABCDEFGPLUMBING*ZZ*SUPERCOMP You need put “ZZ” in the ISA05 field, and “ABCDEFGPLUMBING” in the ISA06 field. How do you do that in BizTalk? In the Trading Partner Management (TPM) of the BizTalk Admin Console, when you set up a “party”, […]
I must admit, I didn’t know about Cassandra, other than perhaps a demo of Cassandra and/or MongoDB at a .NET user meeting. So I decided it was time to give it a try. Download the tar http://cassandra.apache.org/download/. This gave me a file called apache-cassandra-3.10-bin.tar.gz on my download folder. I then created a c:\apache-cassandra-3.10 folder, and unpacked […]
I’m still thinking about whether I want to get AWS (Amazon”s cloud platform) certified. But one question I had was about where I would have to go to take the exams. In the past I’ve taken exams, and familiar with testing centers like Sylvan (Prometric), Vue, and 2Test and others. Question: Are AWS exams online […]
Do you need some part time help with your BizTalk system? Hi, I’m Neal Walters from Irving Texas, a suburb of Dallas. I made this live stream video to introduce myself: I was a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and taught BizTalk over 15 times. Then I went into consulting, and I’ve been doing nothing but BizTalk […]
I’m creating my own checklist of things to watch out for on a BizTalk install, beyond the basic BizTalk hardware/software prerequisites. Sites below are for BizTalk 2010 – but same applies for most any other release: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa577661.aspx – List of Active Domain (AD) groups and service accounts. I took this, put it in MS/Word and […]
I was setting up the Windows Service Bus on a Windows 10 laptop, on which I logon with my hotmail email as my Microsoft userid. I creating my first C# program, and following the instructions here: MSDN Developing an Application/Service Namespaces. This post entitled “How to setup Service Bus PermissioN?“, gave me the idea to […]
I had the following chat via a Microsoft Chat/Sales guy today. Microsoft Answer: In order to have access to BizTalk Server 2016 you’d need VS 2017 Enterprise with MSDN or the MSDN Platforms subscription. I can help you get in contact with a Microsoft Reseller to provide you or your client a quote to purchase […]
In Microsoft SQL, how can we group by a date, when the column we want to group by is a date time? For example, you want the number of rows created for each date, and you have a column in the database called Date_Added (or in my example below, TrcDateTime). Code Sample 1: <pre> select […]
It’s long been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. I think it’s necessary to have a few diagrams to show the BizTalk flow of any application. I’m not happy with UML, because they don’t show the many aspects of BizTalk. I’ve walked into companies before that had no diagram, and the first […]