Guy Barrette, Microsoft, Regional Director, Montreal, Canada, Visual Studio, .NET Expertise Adventures in BizTalkLand - Part 3 - Guy Barrette

Guy Barrette

Microsoft Regional Director, Montreal, Canada

Adventures in BizTalkLand - Part 3

After installing BizTalk on a VPC running Windows Server 2003, I started doing the tutorials that can be downloaded from the BizTalk Website.  The first one went without a glitch but I failed to make the second one work in part because I didn't knew all the BizTalk concepts at that point.  So I decided to do some reading.  Well, the only reading that I could find was the documentation in the form of the help file (that I updated with the latest refresh of course).

Boy this is a complex product!  The lack of books, MOCs or self training material doesn't help either.

See you after I'm done reading.

Posted: Jul 19 2004, 08:14 PM by guybarrette | with 3 comment(s)

Comments

Richard Broida said:

Hi Guy,

I'm a little bit further up the Biz04 learning curve, but I've had many of your same experiences recently. There are some excellent BizTalk Server 2004 blogs and sites right now. This list may help you:


New BizTalk 2004 Documentation http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/techinfo/productdoc/default.asp
Cristoph Schittko's Blog http://blogs.xmladvice.com/christophdotnet/articles/879.aspx
Darren Jefford's Blog http://weblogs.asp.net/darrenj/
Darrell Norton's Blog http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/darrell.norton/articles/9795.aspx
Charles Young Blog http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/
Free BizTalk 2004 Tutorials http://biztalk-training.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=24
Martijn Hoogendoorn Blog http://martijnh.blogspot.com/
Mike Holdorff's Blog http://dallas.sark.com/SarkBlog/mholdorf/
Joel Jeffrey's Blog http://joelblogs.co.uk/Default.aspx?tabid=52&mid=426&ctl=ViewEntry&EntryID=58
BizTalk User Group http://www.biztalkug.com/Newsgroups/orchestration/default.aspx
Gilles Zunino's Blog http://weblogs.asp.net/gzunino/
Keving Smith's Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/kevinsmi/
Scott Colestock Blog http://www.traceofthought.net/default.aspx
Arch Hacker's BizTalk Blog http://thearchhacker.blogspot.com/
BizTak Server Stuff http://groups.msn.com/BizTalkServerStuff
Cristof Claissen's Blog http://weblogs.asp.net/christof_claessens/
BizTalk Core Engine Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/Biztalk_Core_Engine
Guy Barrette's Weblog http://weblogs.asp.net/guybarrette/
George Nelson Blog http://weblogs.asp.net/georgenenc/
Scott Woodgate Blog http://weblogs.asp.net/scottwoo/
# July 19, 2004 9:51 PM

Martín Salías said:

Welcome to the land of the confused, excited, orchestrated, amazed, and confused again. 8-)

Biztalk is indeed an unkind beast, but it is a wonderful product. I discovered late that this is not something to do alone, but -as I said-, it was too late.

Do you have access to the MVP Academy? I have some courseware from a previous BT 2004 course, and they were running now a 101-type course. It can be useful to you.

Best luck!
# July 19, 2004 11:31 PM

abby said:

Hi guy,

It seems you guys are very new to Biztalk.
Welcome to Biztalk Community.
You need to understand core functionality what Biztalk 2004 offers.
For better understanding the functionality you can go throug BTS 2000 presentations from MSDN.
It will help to understand the core functionality in BTS.
I am working with BTS from 4 years and enjoying..
Recently finished one implementation on BTS2004.

Best of Luck ....
# August 11, 2004 8:28 AM
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