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Inbound / outbound maps in Logic Apps!

Jan 11, 2018 | Logic Apps

BizTalk Server offers a great feature that both inbound (receive ports) and outbound maps (send ports) can be executed in dynamic fashion, depending on the message type of the message.  This message type is defined as rootNodeNamespace#rootNodeName.  Below, you can...

BizTalk Hotrod Magazine republished!

Dec 22, 2017 | BizTalk Server

The once-so-famous BizTalk Hotrod Magazine was nowhere to be found anymore on the internet. Luckily I found them back. I thought it was a good idea to share them with the community. Nostalgia! While cleaning up my OneDrive storage, I stumbled upon 10 editions of...

SQL Server 2016: MAX DOP at database level.

Nov 28, 2017 | BizTalk Server

Very recently, I discovered a new feature in SQL Server 2016.  It allows you to configure the Max Degree of Parallelism (MAXDOP) on a database level, instead of instance level.    This is very important to take into account for BizTalk installations.  The BizTalk...

Integrate 2017 – The aftermath!

Jul 11, 2017 | Community

Last week we had the incredible Integrate 2017 event.  First of all thumbs up for the BizTalk360 team: it was a real smooth organization!  This blog post describes my personal thoughts, after digesting the enormous amount of presentations.  I’ve tried to capture...

Run BizTalk extension objects in Logic Apps

Jun 16, 2017 | BizTalk Server, Logic Apps

This post was originally published here. Lately, I was working at a customer that heavily invested in BizTalk Server on premises during the last decade. They are considering to migrate parts of their existing integrations towards Logic Apps, to leverage the smooth...