Monthly Archives: July 2008

BizTalk: BAM Overview in 2006 R2

Posted on July 28, 2008 by sujant

  What is BAM? BAM enables end-to-end instrumentation of a BizTalk Solution BAM provides a view into inner workings of your Solution BAM is to a Business Process what Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) is to a database Why BAM? BizTalk … Continue reading →

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SharePoint: Branding SharePoint Sites using custom Master Pages

Posted on July 21, 2008 by sujant

If you are planning to customize a SharePoint site using Master Pages, you can do it by using the default.master or one of the sample master pages provided in the _catalogs/masterpage/. Always remember to make a copy of any out … Continue reading →

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BizTalk: Monitoring BizTalk Applications using SCOM 2007

Posted on July 17, 2008 by sujant

  I highly recommend using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 with BizTalk Management Pack 2006 to monitor your BizTalk Applications. Monitoring BizTalk in Production environment has always been challenging for BizTalk operators. SCOM provides excellent interface for monitoring BizTalk … Continue reading →

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SharePoint: Securing Collaboration sites

Posted on July 14, 2008 by sujant

Recently one of my clients asked us to provide them best practices in setting up security around collaboration sites that may contain confidential data. SharePoint 2007 Best Practices book provides very good overview of how to implement information security in … Continue reading →

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SharePoint: MOSS 2007 high level overview

Posted on July 13, 2008 by sujant

Often times you encounter somebody asking you What is WSS 3.0? What is the difference between WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007? Do I need MOSS 2007 or can I have just WSS 3.0? What is the difference between MOSS 2007 … Continue reading →

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BizTalk: Feature comparison of BizTalk Oracle Adapters

Posted on July 11, 2008 by sujant

Feature Microsoft BizTalk Oracle Adapter Microsoft BizTalk WCF Adapter TopXml Adapter for Databases BizTalk Server support version BizTalk Server 2006 BizTalk Server 2006 R2 BizTalk Server 2004/2006 Access ODBC driver to connect to DB Oracle Adapter for .NET (ODP.NET) Oracle … Continue reading →

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LINQ: LINQ in BizTalk applications

Posted on July 9, 2008 by sujant

Below you can find steps to call LINQ classes from BizTalk 2006 R2 Application: Create VS 2008 class library Add a new class to the project and have LINQ based code in the class Strong sign the class library and … Continue reading →

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MOSS 2007: Differences between MCMS 2002 and MOSS 2007

Posted on July 8, 2008 by sujant

I know why would you compare MCMS 2002 and MOSS 2007 when you know who the winner is. Anyways I thought it might be useful to somebody when talking to a client about MCMS and MOSS. Feature MCMS 2002 MOSS … Continue reading →

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LINQ: Sample code to retrieve element values using LINQ XML API

Posted on July 8, 2008 by sujant

  Below you can find the code (C#) that you can use to retrieve element values or attribute values after loading an xml file into XDocument. The code sample is provided as one of the many ways you can implement … Continue reading →

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