BizTalk LOB Whitepapers
Earlier in the year, I published a couple of Whitepapers for Microsoft on the topic of using the BizTalk PeopleSoft and Siebel LOB Adapters. Since then, I have run across a few other helpful pieces of...
View ArticleThe Curse of the Dollar Sign ($)
Recently, I was working on a project that inserted records from a flat file in to a SQL table. For the most part, this was pretty simple and straight forward. Create Flat File Schema (using the wizard)...
View ArticleBizTalk – fatal error X1001: unknown system exception
The other day I ran across a very puzzling error: fatal error X1001: unknown system exception Fortunately, the error message was so descriptive; I was able to resolve my problem right away. Ok, so I...
View ArticleSearch and Replace Pipeline Component
Ok. So this isn’t the fanciest of things, but it really saved my bacon. Problem: I have a predefined flat file schema to transform a fixed-length positional file. However, for some unknown reason,...
View ArticlePGP Pipeline Component
Recently I was required to perform some PGP encryption and decryption of files. Realizing this was going to require a custom Pipeline Component, off I went to Google to find one. Hey, why reinvent...
View ArticleFTP, PGP, and Me
So let me break this down for you… Company A (Acme, Inc) wants to exchange data with Company C (Charlie Company). However, I represent Company B (BizTalk United) and we want to collect some of the...
View ArticlePGP Pipeline Component v1.1
I ran across a few things that I needed to update and have posted them here as well. Notable changes include: Added Pipeline Component property of Extension. This allows you to specify what extension...
View ArticleBizTalk SMTP Adapter is Missing BCC Functionality
Ok, so this probably comes to no surprise to many of you. I remember running in to this problem when I was using BTS 2004. However, I thought that the community’s cries would be answered with BTS...
View ArticleSomething brewing… Not ready for Prime Time.
It’s been quiet on the blogging front for awhile. Things have been pretty quiet at work and nothing of great value has been discovered. I have been playing with WPF and WCF a bit. I hooked up BTS...
View ArticleStupid, Stupid, Stupid… Me!
I hate to admit that I have been plagued by this stupid BizTalk error for weeks now. I must say that I haven’t been focusing on this particular issue the entire time, but when I did it wasn’t pretty....
View ArticleIntroduction
Greetings and welcome to my BLOG. I have been meaning to begin BLOGging for several months now. Well, actually going on a year I suppose. I guess I felt that I really didn’t have anything too terribly...
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