Category: Presentation

Conference, MVP, Presentation

Travel: MVP Summit 2011 and Canada, or why you should never make the mistake to tell Customs you are there for business (unless you REALLY are)

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While travelling to MVP Summit me and Mikael took the opportunity to visit our friend and fellow BizTalk MVP Kent Weare. This also saw us participating in a mini-BizTalk conference delivering sessions to Kent’s company. See Kent’s post here.

The presentations were “complementary”, which did not go down well with customs since I had the bad judgment of putting down business and personal as my reason for the trip (and since I was going on to MVP summit which is on that fine line between business and personal as well). It’s the most I’ve ever heard a person repeat the same couple of questions phrased in different ways in one single short conversation. I guess I finally passed though since I did get let into the country. Either that or those Canadians aren’t as pesky with visitors as the border officers let on 😉

I did a variation of the same presentation that I did in November for the Swedish BizTalk User Group. “A few things about mapping”, since mapping is one of those areas that I see so often used and yet so often misunderstood or at least poorly understood as far as the underlying mechanics and usage patterns.

The presentation is uploaded here. Oh and even if the weather was way colder than necessary (as in thank good for the art of chemistry and little hand warmers) I had a really good time skiing in Banff and Sunshine. Thanks everyone for a great time in Calgary, especially Kent and Melissa 🙂

As far as summit goes it was just great to see everyone again. And it was great to see the leaps Microsoft are taking in the cloud services area. This years summit had a better session layout than last years, and all in all better, more interactive sessions, with great access to fellow MVPs and Microsoft product groups alike. I almost didn’t make the trip at all, packing and taking in a cab in the neck of time, but that’s another story. I am glad I did!

BizTalk, Presentation, Usergroup

BizTalk, OpsMgr and Triathlon – What have they got in common?

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Canadian BizTalk MVP Kent Weare.

At the 26th of august the BizTalk User Group Sweden had Kent over to deliver two sessions around System Center Operations Manager and its Management Pack for BizTalk Server. The sessions were separated by a networking and food pause and delivered to a group of around 75 people. Together with Johan Hedberg (me!) and 35 others he also completed the Stockholm Triathlon participating in the Microsoft SQL Server Fast Track Team (newspaper slideshow (in swedish) here: http://it24.idg.se/2.2275/1.337297/blott-och-svettigt-for-microsoft) (Named persons not featured). Url of user group event is here. Blog post by Kent is here. Presentation slides can also be found at the BizTalk User Group Sweden site (look in the lower right corner area).

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BizTalk, Presentation

BizTalk presentations in the summer/fall, part two

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I case anyone has missed it, BizTalk User Group Sweden, is as active as ever. We’ve got two great events planned after the summer.

Date: 26/8 2010 – Evening event.
Location: Stockholm
Topic: Managing your BizTalk environment using System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2
Speaker: Kent Weare
Sign-up: Here

This is a great event not only for BizTalk Developers and Operations but also for IT-professionals working with System Center, especially if they have BizTalk in their environment.

Date: 8-9/9 2010 – Yes, that’s right, this is a TWO DAY event.
Location: Stockholm
Topic: Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform aka BizTalk Server 2010 – Release party
Speaker: Richard Seroter, Ewan Fairweather, Stephen W. Thomas
Sign-up: Here

These are both events you do not wan’t to miss, and it seems people agree. Slots are filling up fast so be sure to be quick about signing up.

BizTalk, Presentation

BizTalk presentations during the summer, part one

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I’ll be presenting at Microsoft Swedens “Sommarkollo”. I’ll be talking about BizTalk. Introducing it, showing of enhancements in 2010 and going through some (what I hope are) inspirational scenarios. The target audience are developers or architects. Even though I will spend some time in the beginning at an introductory level I believe there are things that will entertain even more seasoned developers. Level is 200-300.

More info about this and other presentations can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/sverige/sommarkollo/default.html

Also, signups for my presentations can be reached through the below links:

Date: 30/6 kl. 13-16
Location: Göteborg
Sign-up: Here

Datum: 1/7 kl. 9-12
Location: Malmö.
Sign-up: Here

Datum: 7/7 kl. 9-12
Location: Stockholm
Sign-up: Here

Datum: 24/8 kl. 9-12
Location: Stockholm
Sign-up: Here

Enjoy the summer! I know I will 🙂

PS. Just to make readers (especially those from other countries with less generous terms) jealous I’ll be on vacation/parental leave (and have been for two weeks) until the very last days of august.

BizTalk, Presentation, TechDaysSE

TechDays Sweden 2010

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That should read… I was a speaker at the Swedish TechDays, since I am writing this post after the fact, although I’m backdating the post a bit to more closely match in time when I was supposed to have published it.


I did a session titled “The Future Roadmap of BizTalk Server” and I’m happy to say I drew a full room (not that the room was all that big, but all the same). Future in this case meant I covered both current and coming technology. The reasoning behind it was that a lot of people probably wouldn’t have BizTalk Server 2009. This turned out to be true since it was a clear minority of the people in the room that raised their hands when asked if they had had previous contact with BizTalk Server 2009. I covered ESB Toolkit 2.0 and Itinerary processing as well as connecting to Windows Azure Platform Service Bus. I was a little surprised here that as I asked for a raise of hands on how many were familiar with the Service Bus only a couple of hands went up. Either it’s a Swedish mentality thing – to not want to stand out – or there simply aren’t all that many people interested in it, yet. I went on to cover some of the news in 2009 R2 (which I learned had gotten renamed to 2010 the evening after my presentation). I couldn’t demo anything, but am quite satisfied with how the Powerpoint “Demo” I was able to do (yes, I know, you can kill a presentation, and other things, with Powerpoint, but I think I did ok). I also related some of the vision given by the team at PDC in November and subsequent WebCasts about vNext. The recorded session should be up soon at the TechDays site, however it will be in Swedish, so for an international audience it will be useless. The presentation will be availble soon as well, as a pdf.


Because I believe in sharing I’ve decided to make the presentation available through the blogical Downloads section, here. I have myself borrowed small parts and ideas from the presentation from elsewhere as you often do, but almost all slides and images are built from scratch. I’m sharing those under a “if you decide to use parts of it please at least tell me that you liked it and that it was useful to you through commenting this blog post” license. I’ve marked it as final, but it’s not copy protected or in pdf format or anything, it’s the pptx file itself. Enjoy.


UPDATE: Recorded session (in swedish) is here.


Also BizTalk User Group Sweden was represented at TechDays as well.



(Not the best of pictures, with the backlight and all, but there we are… From MPN Swedens photostream)