March 2005 - Posts

• BizTalk Static Oracle Adapter Sample

  The Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Adapter for oracle uses ADO.NET. The idea is developing an easy to use efficient adapter that connects modern SOA based applications to Oracle databases, the adapter supports Oracle version 8.0i and later. Goals: Developing Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 22, 2005 11:19 AM by scottwoo | 2 Comments

• Going big at TechEd

  Yumay on my team is working with lots of you (thanks for helping!) on TechEd and we really hope we will have a strong community push this year. Sessions, Cabannas, ILTs, HOLs its all going on. Of course the TechEd people do look at customer feedback to Read More... Posted Friday, March 18, 2005 12:37 PM by scottwoo | 0 Comments

• Various corrections etc.

  1) The free stuff below is unfortunately restricted to US only. Having said that there is still free-stuff up for offer if you are located in the USA. 2) The deep-dive training below was at $0. We sponsored a number of deep-dive sessions and those rapidly Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 16, 2005 9:46 AM by scottwoo | 1 Comments

• Windows Server 2003 SP1 & BizTalk Server

  While I'm in a blogging mood (I've answered about 300 emails tonight) we just did a full test pass on Windows Server 2003 SP1 and everything works fine. So if nothing changes in the next week or three it means your upgrade to Windows Server 2003 SP1 should Read More... Posted Thursday, March 10, 2005 9:34 PM by scottwoo | 1 Comments

• While I'm on learning e-learning courses for BizTalk Server 2004 now available

  Various members of my team (including yours truly) do little cameo voice overs in these... BizTalk 2004 Developer and Admin Courses Live on MS Learning The Developer and Administrator blended training contents are now publicly available as an E-learning Read More... Posted Thursday, March 10, 2005 8:56 PM by scottwoo | 0 Comments

• Free Stuff :)

  Take a survey and get free stuff (and its good stuff too like Office etc.). Better still help us help you by providing feedback on your learning/training experiences on the product (I hear a few people have feedback to give!) Want to help reduce the learning Read More... Posted Thursday, March 10, 2005 8:50 PM by scottwoo | 2 Comments

• TechEd Birds of Feather Sessions Voting

  This year TechEd is hosting a Birds of a Feather for both the IT Pro and Developer audiences. Topics are then posted to the website where everyone can go in and vote on what their favorite sessions are. On April 11th we'll close down the voting, and the Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 09, 2005 8:50 PM by scottwoo | 2 Comments

• Pluralsight Joins the Ranks of BizTalk Server Training Providers

  Pluralsight is excited to offer ‘ Applied BizTalk Server 2004 ’ . The Course is developed and taught by Aaron Skonnard, author of MSDN Magazine's ‘ Service Station ’ column (previously The XML Files) and the ‘ Essential XML Quick Reference ’ (Addison Read More... Posted Monday, March 07, 2005 7:54 PM by scottwoo | 7 Comments

• Bye bye Rugby on Foxsports, Hello Radiosports

  Well, if you are a New Zealander in the USA and you miss home then of course rugby is far more important than just about anything else. I've been loving the coverage on foxsportsworld for the last 4 years which makes up for my lack of physical presence Read More... Posted Sunday, March 06, 2005 10:15 AM by scottwoo | 10 Comments

• TechEd 2005

  Rebecca kindly went ahead and posted the Connected Systems TechEd sessions that you will most likely get to see at TechEd 2005. Yes, thanks to a little nudge from you earlier in the year we combined the web services and the business process/integration Read More... Posted Thursday, March 03, 2005 1:40 PM by scottwoo | 3 Comments