This has turned out to be a very busy year, thanks in part to Microsoft's ever-accelerating stream of product releases. Even five years ago I never thought that I'd hope Microsoft would slow down!
One of those exciting new products is Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2, which features Microsoft's new RFID platform, extensive support for EDI and all-new native WCF adapters (my favorite!). I had the pleasure of presenting at the Minneapolis/St. Paul-area BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Launch event on October 9th. My session was entitled "BizTalk Server 2006 R2: A Core Component of a Service-Oriented Architecture" and was very well-attended. Thank you to everyone who listened in! We even had Jon Flanders from Pluralsight and Michael Woods from the BizTalk product group on hand, and Michael introduced my sessions with an overview of Microsoft's vision of SOA.
Tonight, November 15th, I'm presenting a session with my co-worker Randall entitled "Message Queuing with BizTalk 2006 R2: MSMQ, IBM WebSphere MQ and Ordered Delivery" for the Twin Cities BizTalk User Group. I'm going to talk about queuing and the pros and cons, go through some MQ configuration issues and demo the MSMQ and WebSphere MQ adapters for BizTalk. Randall is going to show some code as part of a solution for ordered delivery using MSMQ. We hope to see you there!