Be Logical – Notes from Johan Hedberg
Sharing Knowledge, Experiences, Thoughts and Lessons learned in Solution Architecture and Development
Hotfix for resolving issues with references between projects: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=977428
Hotfix for problem with orchestrations saying “The expression that you have entered is not valid.” when they are in fact valid: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=979153
During the fall of 2009 I teamed up with fellow MVP Mikael Håkansson and delivered internal training to Logica employees in Sweden. Training in part based upon existing training material from Microsoft but with presentation material that we made especially for this course. We have since developed this material even further.
Being a MCT I was contacted by one of the major certified learning providers in Sweden that through mutual contacts had learned of what we had done. I have the pleasure of being able to start this year by announcing that an agreement have been reached with AddSkills to deliver this course to the public.
So if you are in my part of the world (a.k.a. Sweden) you now have an additional choice to get quality BizTalk Server training that covers the latest version. See available sign-up details and dates here. Delivery of custom on or off site courses based on the same material is also possible.
I’ll be doing a talk on AppFabric at the Swedish .NET User Group tomorrow at 6 pm in Stockholm hosted at Informator. Others will talk about other interesting topics from PDC as well. More info (in swedish) and sign-up at http://pdc2009afterparty.eventbrite.com/
I was kind of suprised when I saw this blog post. Saying that 64-bit processing wasn’t allowed with Standard Edition of BizTalk. Since I was at PDC at the time I asked the people there who were (without me putting words in their mouths) equally suprised. At the time they couldn’t see either a licensing or technical reason as to why that would be so. And to add to that it was strange that Branch was allowed while Standard was not.
I didn’t have access to machines (or time) to test right then, but after getting back I tested and true enough you are not allowed to create a 64-bit host. The UI stops you. As you can see, this doesn’t stop BizTalk Server Standard from being installed on a 64-bit machine – it just doesn’t get the benefits of 64-bit processing.
I also found an “official” explanation to this here, which I’ve pasted below:
“We consider 64-bit support an Enterprise Edition level feature that a customer would only select if they require faster messaging/orchestration processing or the larger addressable virtual memory of 64-bit mode for large BizTalk message mapping or other memory intensive operations. Because the Standard Edition is designed for small-to-medium environments, it is licensed to only run on a single BizTalk server with a maximum of two CPUs, maximum of five “BizTalk Applications”, and a single message box. 64-bit support for the Standard Edition seemed counter-intuitive from a technical and licensing perspective. If the deployment scenario requires 64-bit hardware then it certainly requires BizTalk Enterprise as well. Standard edition is for single box only installations. Enterprise is also required for multi box installs and for clustering.”
Judging from the fact that 64-bit is now very much mainstream, especially on servers, I would expect to see this change in the upcoming releases of BizTalk Server.
Some time ago, back on the 20th of November, Richard Seroter visited BizTalk User Group Sweden and talked about BizTalk, SOA and leveraging the cloud. His talks are now live on channel9, part 1 and part 2. A short blogpost explaining the talk is here.
It was great fun to have Richard visit, although some (most) of the laughter and clapping that your hear on the videos is really due to me making a pantomime Richard imitation outside of the frame of the video and should not be credited to him 😉
Getting the videos published wasn’t lightning fast due to some unfortunate circumstances and personnel changes. Hopefully that will be all ironed out by November 26th when Charles Young swings by us again, this time to talk about the Business Rules Framework. I’m sure it’ll be a classic. Take the chance to say “I was there”. There are still slots left. Sign up here.
Should you happen to pass by Sweden and have an interesting Connected Systems topic that you would like to talk about feel free to drop us a line.
Or as Richard commented his visit on his blog through this sentence taken totally out of it’s context 😉 “If you get the chance to visit this user group as an attendee or speaker, don’t hesitate to do so.“
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Be Logical - Notes from Johan Hedberg 