A few posts ago I wrote about becomming aware of the latest downloads from the Microsoft Download Center and how they didn’t have an RSS feed for that. On the other side of the scale as far as RSS feeds go is the support och knowledgebase articles. There are quite a few different RSS feeds for things that are BizTalk, although most don’t contain anything. Here are the links to the feeds for BizTalk Server 2004 and BizTalk Server 2006.
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Consuming pipeline issue fix for BizTalk 2006
I previously blogged about an issue I was experiencing building a custom pipeline component in BizTalk Server 2006, and that I had found it was fixed and was not longer an issue in R2. Now there is a KB (KB941802) out that deals with a fix for that problem in 2006. I think the description of the problem in the the KB is somewhat limited, for a more detailed description read my post. So if you are experiencing an endless loop behviour in BizTalk 2006, get this fix.
Vote for TechDays in Sweden
If you’re from Sweden, and I guess mainly if you live and/or work in Stockholm (although I’m unsure at this point), and you don’t have the possibility to go to TechEd or PDC and would like to get the chance to get some of that technical content delivered closer to home, take your chance to let Microsoft know. Visit the swedish msdn website and make your vote heard. I’d probably go, and I’d be willing to present.
WCF issue after installing updates
After installing updates this past night our webservers began exhibiting odd behaviour. All our Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services began returning 405 Method Not Allowed. I’m not sure which patch was responsible for causing this, but I strongly dislike it when applying updates change my configuration. When I tried to access the svc file directly from a browser I got a 404. This led me to check the .svc mapping. Don’t ask me why, but as it turns out this mapping had been removed. Adding it back solved the problem. I haven’t tracked it down, and I don’t think I will, but the culprit is most likely part of either Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 (KB110806) or Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 1 (KB929300). The other updates installed can almost certainly be disregarded.
Attending a BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Partner Academy course – DVD contents
I’ve signed up for a Mircosoft Partner Academy pre-sale angled course on BizTalk Server 2006 R2. It’s my first time attending a course delivered in this kind of online manner. I still don’t know if it will suit me or not, but today I got the dvd’s accompanying the online content and Jon Flanders is the main presentation deliverer. Knowing I enjoy Jons presentationstyle and after browsing the content of the dvd I feel a little more confident that it might be worth spending the extra hours on this thing. Except for Jon there are also a few other presentations, mostly from (this years I assume) TechReady, PowerPoint Slides and Hands-On Labs. And I’m extracting the VHD as I write this.
UPDATE: I just recognized this as the same (more or less) Classroom-in-a-Box set as we got at the SOA and BPM Conference in Redmond in October. I haven’t compared file by file on all the discs, but I feel pretty confident saying it’s the same.
Be Logical - Notes from Johan Hedberg 