Lori MacVittie writes "In a nutshell, Microsoft allows hosting of BizTalk activities in the cloud at BizTalk labs. Developers then integrate those cloud hosted activities into a BizTalk workflow (orchestration) by calling them as they would any other web-based service or hosted activity...While the first definitions of cloudbursting are focused on reactive capacity management, Microsoft appears to be taking a proactive approach to cloudbursting..."

Brian Smith writes "...showing an AJAX web part feeding from a PSI Extension and showing the location of each project on your server – where the city of execution is held in a custom field...Hovering over the pushpins shows details for the specific project – also returned by the PSI Extension. The code is on...The document there covers the creation of the web part..."

Ben Cline writes "...all of a sudden I started receiving errors about the WCF adapters that are included with BizTalk Server 2006 R2. Here is an example error: Failed to add adapter: WCF-NetNamedPipe, Error C0C025CA A similar error occurred for nearly every one of the R2 WCF adapters..."

Georgina Mitcham writes "What are my licences converted to when I buy the Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Transition Pack?..."

JD Meier writes "As part of our Patterns & Practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Project, I’ve been hunting and gathering trends that influence software development...Rather than distinguish between trends and fads, I decided to focus on “hot spots” and simply identify the topics..."

Emma Healey writes "With the launch of the 2008 offerings, we have introduced the "solution Pathway", basically it will offer a tiered discount that will be applicable to all mobility scenarios, i.e., into, within, and out of WESS family of products, and will replace previously offered SKUs...Check out the solution pathway on the links..."

Paul Randal writes "If I have a transaction that inserts a huge amount of data, the transaction log grows to 50-GB. I then rollback the transaction. When I take the next log backup, it's way smaller than 50-GB."

Darren Gosbell writes "processing a cube with XMLA....how I scripted out the process command from SQL Server Management Studio."

Jeff Lynch writes "There are a lot of parameters to set when creating a new Process Configuration in the BizTalk Accelerator for RosettaNet. Almost all of these are used by the Initiator Private Process and Initiator Public Process to create the outbound RNIF headers and message so it’s vital that you and your trading partner agree..."

Ben Cline writes "If you try to install BizTalk 2006 R2 onto a system with only VS 2008 you get an error message because the extensions cannot be installed...So it is a little inconvenient to run both VS 2005 and 2008 on the same box and not be able to deploy directly from VS 2008 to BizTalk...ordered list of software I installed to get it to work:"

Radoslaw Lebkowski writes "Installing SP1, specially for Planning Server, it is not only running SP1 installation files, but many other important steps. So, if you omit some of them, you can receive different errors like this above. If you are going to upgrade your PerformancePoint Server, I strongly recommend to review the following articles, before you start this procedure:"

Ben Cline writes "...Another very important tip to know about is that you need to avoid enabling private key protection in the certificate with the private key or you will get additional error messages. Here are the messages I received when I did not disable private key protection..."

Ben Cline writes "I actually used BizTalk Server 2006 R2 on Windows Server 2008 on a recent project. The install...was the Windows Server 2008 Enterprise edition. I did not work with an install of Server Core or of Hypervisor, so a system that includes these features may or may not function properly for BizTalk. I installed BizTalk..."

Jeff Lynch writes "...it’s the first thing you’ll need to configure in the BizTalk Accelerator for RosettaNet 3.5 (BTARN 3.5)...If you take a look at the BizTalk Server 2006 Administration Console under the Parties node, you’ll see your new Home Organization and Partner in the list just as you would expect...Don’t let this fool you..."

Eric Ligman writes "...Small Businesses purchasing new PCs with Windows Vista Business or Windows Vista Ultimate between July 1, 2008 and September 30, 2008 can now receive free support, compatibility assistance, and one-on-one coaching from Microsoft to help them get the most out of their PCs...more information on this offer..."