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Azure

Log APIM Request to Blob

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Overview When interacting with 3rd party APIs, it’s common to hit an issue in which being able to check the payload of the posted message is critical.

Azure Function WEBSITE_RUN_FROM_PACKAGE

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Azure Function WEBSITE_RUN_FROM_PACKAGE Over the years there have been multiple ways to host Azure Functions. My current preference is to host on a linux app...

Automating Creation of Az Sql Contained Users

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Automating Creation of Az Sql Contained Users I have an Azure Function app called sms-router that uses an Azure Sql Database. This means it needs permission ...

Hosting Azure DevOps Agents on a VMSS

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Hosting Azure DevOps Agents on a VMSS The only time I’d previously had to veer from using Microsoft’s hosted build agent was for building “unusual” things li...

Missing Host Keys in Azure Function App

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Missing Host Keys in Azure Function App I ran into a problem with deployment of a function app a couple of weeks ago. I thought I’d share the solution here i...

Tuning Azure Functions App Settings

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Tuning Azure Function App Settings I would admit to being guilty of accepting some default function app settings without really considering what they’re for....

APIM IP Address

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Figuring Out the IP Address of Your Azure Function and API Management Policy Background I recently created an Azure Function app that’s triggered by an Http ...

APIM Deployment

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Automating Deployment of Azure API Management Requiring App Registrations

Logic Apps in ASEv3

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Using the Built-In File Connector for On-Prem Files Previously, we’d been accessing on-prem files from logic apps via the on-prem data gateway, as illustrate...

Logs Missing from local Az Functions

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Logs Missing from Local Az Functions I created a new Durable Functions project recently and noticed my logs weren’t appearing in the console window when runn...

Zero to Cloud

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Zero to Cloud I have dabbled with Azure over the past few years now but this has been mainly as a host to a simple websites with a sql db layer. I’ve been me...

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BizTalk

Biztalk 2016 sFTP

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BizTalk 2016 sFTP I recently worked on a project that required BizTalk to collect files from a 3rd party’s server using the SFTP adapter. I’ve had to do this...

Fiddler and BizTalk with a Corp Proxy

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Fiddler and BizTalk with a Corp Proxy I’ve been having fun integrating BizTalk with an external rest style api this week. When things don’t work as expected,...

Calling BizTalk from Azure

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Calling BizTalk from Azure Phone Home I’ve been working on a project that has a .Net Core MVC front end deployed as an Azure Web App. This needs to request d...

Biztalk 2016 High Availability Config

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BizTalk 2016 High Availability Config I was recently faced with creating a new on-prem production environment for BizTalk 2016. New to me for this install wa...

Orchestration Woes

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Orchestration Woes I hit a problem with BTS2013r2 orchestration that I don’t remember coming across previously.

Sending to SharePoint List from BizTalk

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Sending to SharePoint List from BizTalk I have a BizTalk 2013r2 solution from which I needed to send to a SharePoint 2010 list. It seems there are two option...

Biztalk Functoid not Found

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Functoid not Found There Must be a Better Way I’m hoping I’ve overlooked something here but I’ve hit a problem, for which I can’t find a happy work-around.

Biztalk Orchestraion Delivery Notification

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BizTalk Orchestration Delivery Notifcation I ran into an interesting problem last week. Sends to a third-party via the FTP adapter were failing. Nothing part...

ESB Exception 256

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ESB Exception Framework and Description 256 Length Problem Users of the ESB Exception Toolkit may be familiar with the exception: The property “Descriptio...

Biztalk and Tradeshift

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BizTalk and Tradeshift Tradeshift is as cloud based service to enable companies to exchange business documents such as purchase orders and invoices more easi...

BizTalk Naming Conventions

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BizTalk Naming Conventions Naming of BizTalk stuff is no different than for any programming language. It’s helpful if multiple developers on the same project...

BizTalk Smoke Testing

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BizTalk Smoke Testing After building a new BizTalk environment it can be helpful to run a few simple tests to check all is good.

BizTalk CI/CD

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BizTalk CI/CD Background In this post I’d like to describe a BizTalk build process I recently developed for a client and their BizTalk 2013(r1) applications....

BizTalk DateTime vs Oracle

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BizTalk DateTime vs Oracle I have an orchestration that received a data file and inserted contents into an Oracle database as part of its processing.

Happy TPE

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Why BAM? Why TPE? I’m a big believer in BizTalk’s Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) functionality, in fact I can’t think of any “real” BizTalk application t...

Happy BizTalk!

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Simple PowerShell BizTalk Status Report Have you ever felt the need to check all BizTalk ports and hosts instances are running before you leave work each day...

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BTDF

BTDF IIS

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BizTalk Deployment Framework and IIS Websites Tom Abraham recently published v5.7 of the BTDF to Codeplex and Github. The main win of this release is full su...

Biztalk Deployment Framework - Local Bindings

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Biztalk Deployment Framework - Local Bindings For new BizTalk solutions I use the BizTalk Deployment Framework (BTDF). In the early stages of development, I ...

BTDF Gotcha!

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BTDF Gotcha! Everyone knows that the BizTalk Deployment Framework is the best thing since sliced bread but BizTalk deployment is a complex thing and I still ...

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PowerShell

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RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ Inequivalent Arg Error

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Rabbit MQ Inequivalent Arg Error I have an Azure function that’s making use of the new(ish) RabbitMQ binding to collect messages. This binding (https://githu...

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DevOps

EF Migrations with DevOps

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EF Migrations with DevOps Intro Entity Framework migrations have been around for a long time, so I won’t go into detail on what they’re for, other than to sa...

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