Monday, February 26, 2018

Logic Apps: Decode X12 messages and transform them with Liquid

In this post, I will explain how to validate and decode X12 messages (EDI 850 401 in this example) and transform the content with Liquid Maps.

Thursday, January 4, 2018

The first year of Roving Integrators

My colleague and friend Félix Mondelo and me decided a few months ago start this adventure, and although it has been a very intense year we've tried to build a place to share experiences about integration technologies. It has been very complicated found time for writing about what we like, but finally we've achieved it. I hope that in 2018 it will be easier 😃

Monday, December 25, 2017

Failed to connect to the SQL database 'SSODB' on SQL Server

Last week I was with a customer that had problems to configure a  BizTalk Server 2009 development environment. They got the following error when they tried to enable Enterprise Single Sign-On on that environment: "Failed to connect to the SQL database 'SSODB' on SQL Server"


Wednesday, November 22, 2017

How to migrate a Git repo from VSTS to VSTS

The process to migrate a Git repository from a Visual Studio Team Services project to another within the same account or to a different account is very easy:

First of all we must generate a personal access token (PAS) for our user in source account, in this way the target account will be able to access to the source account safely to perform the migration process. In order to this we must go to the security section of our VSTS profile and add a new token:

Friday, August 4, 2017

BizTalk360 version 8.5 released

Yesterday was released the new version 8.5 of BizTalk360, we have tested the new features.

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Logic Apps Live - Jul 26 2017

Today Jeff Hollan, Jon Fancey and  Kevin Lam presents the last news about Logic Apps.

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Integrate 2017: Day 2 Logic Apps and Azure Functions Highlights

Day 2 was awesome, very intensive if we talk about Logic Apps, with very good presentations.

We began the day with the "Microsoft IT journey with Azure Logic Apps" presentation by Divya Swarnkar and Mayank Sharma. They talked about they experience doing integrations with the iPaaS model and their learnings:



Monday, June 26, 2017

Integrate 2017: Day 1 Logic Apps and Azure Functions Highlights

Integrate 2017

Today was the first day of the Integrate 2017 at London.

I want to share some highlights about Logic Apps and Azure Functions.

Jeff Hollan and Kevin Lam present "Azure Logic Apps - build cloud-scale integrations faster" slights. This presentation was an introductory review of what are Logic Apps and when some announces was made:

  • New Connectors will be added soon, as Oracle EBS, Service Now and the most applaused SOAP connector. 
  • Posibility to create Custom Connectors joined to their custom API connectors.



Wednesday, June 21, 2017

How to change the logging configuration of a WCF service at runtime with WMI

We have always been recommended to set the trace level of our WCF services to "warning" in the production environments so as not to impact on the performance and not to generate a large amount of data. However, when we detect an issue with our services we should be able to modify the trace level to "verbose" to facilitate the troubleshooting process.

Monday, June 12, 2017

BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Update: Management REST APIs. Great, but not enough

When Microsoft releases the BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack, I was very interested in the new Management REST APIs. My interest was because years ago, I developed a similar solution in a big customer, building some WCF services that allows manage and deploy on remote BizTalk Server artifacts.