Biztalk Compatibility Matrix

Today, I have spent a lot of time to find the compatibility metrix for Biztalk Server 2009 and TFS.

Here is the official Microsoft link for BizTalk compatibility with SQL Servers:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926628

I am still searching for TFS compatibility matrix with SQL server from Microsoft. Couple of weeks ago,there was a compatibility matrix bellow
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee175815(v=vs.90).aspx
 but it has been removed recently.

Today, I have spent lot of time to figure out the issue calling a business rules from an orchestration. When an orchestration is processing, the rules are triggered but the corresponding actions was not performed .

Finally we figureout that we are missing a registery enter to call a static methods from business rules. we followed the settings as listerd in the following microsoft document.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa950269%28v=bts.10%29.aspx

Biztalk Health checkings

Biztalk has a lot of processing in the background so it is very importanat to maintain the production environment healthy.

Here are some tools which helps to easily troubleshoot environment issues.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/biztalk-health-check.aspx

SWIFT Message integration

Few basics concepts of SWIFT Message.

1) Bank Identifier Code or Swift Code, BIC code (BIC) :

The Bank identifier code is also known as a BIC or BIC code, is a universal method
of identifying financial institutions in order to facilitate the automated processing of
payments. These codes are generally used financial institutions to perform business
between banks Such as wire transfers.

A BIC code consists of 8 or 11 continuous characters comprising:

•   Bank Code     :  4 Alphabetic characters identifying an Individual bank.  Example: "DEUT"  for  Deutsche  Bank.

•   Country Code : 2 Letters ISO Country Code such as DE for Germany

•  Location Code : 2 Alphanumerical characters(except zero) :  Identifies location of institution within the  code such as FF for Frankfurt.
• Branch Code    :  3 alphanumeric characters (Optional) : Identifies the specific office or branch.
  
  Example of Bank Identification Code :  DEUTDEFF100
  
  Complete details of the swift message and its format can be found in the following link
  http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wbihelp/v6rxmx/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.wbia_adapters.doc%2Fdoc%2Fswift%2Fswift72.htm
  
  
  
  

Biztalk Server 2010 new videos from Microsoft

Here are the  Microsoft BizTalk server 2010 latest videos.... enjoy..
Microsoft Biztalk server 2010 videos

Tools to help thoughout the EAI applications design process using BizTalk Server

BizTalk is a service oriented messaging application and each component in BizTalk server works disconnected in nature. Since there is a so much of flexibility on each component the integration process can be designed  in many different ways. Some times it is hard to figure out the bottle necks with out the tools.

Following tools are very helpfull through out the integration process 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/biztalk/dd920317.aspx