Biztalk Videos

Here you can see some of the Videos demonstrating some key aspects of Biztalk from Microsoft MVPs and product team people.

Community Videos(Stephen Thomas)

Flat File Disassembler Output Options
Author:Stephen W. Thomas
This 9:49 minute video covers the three different output options from the biztalk flat file Disassembler provided in Biztalk. The three options are single detail records without headers or trailers, all detail records together without header and trailers, or all details together with the header and trailer.
Recoverable Interchange Processing in Biztalk 2006
Author:Stephen W. Thomas
This 9:07 minute video covers one of the new features of Biztalk 2006, Recoverable Interchange Processing. This is the ability to fail a single message inside an interchange without failing the whole interchange. This works with both the Xml Disassembler and the Flat File Disassembler.
BizTalk 2006 R2 First Look at the WCF Adapter
Author:Stephen W. Thomas
This nearly 13 minute video gives a quick, high level First Look at BizTalk Server 2006 R2 WCF Adapter using the Basic HTTP Binding. This is intended to show how easy it is to use BizTalk 2006 R2 and WCF to build applications. Note that this is based on Beta code and is subject to change in future releases.

Community Videos(Alan Smith)

BizTalk - Calling Services Reliability
Author:Alan Smith (Apr 15 2009)
  • Send port retry configuration
  • BizTalk reliable messaging
BizTalk - Orchestration Performance
Author:Alan Smith (Apr 3 2009)
  • Calling services in parallel
  • Atomic scope
  • Reducing persistence
BizTalk - Service Aggregator
Author:Alan Smith (Mar 29 2009)
  • Adding WCF service references
  • Creating a service aggregator
  • Calling WCF services from an orchestration
  • Creating WCF send ports
BizTalk – BAM Part 1: Activities
Author:Alan Smith (Nov 9 2008)
  • Designing a BAM Solution
  • Creating a BAM Activity
  • Deploying a BAM Definition
  • Creating a Tracking Profile
  • Viewing BAM Data
BizTalk – BAM Part 2: Views
Author:Alan Smith (Nov 9 2008)
  • Creating a BAM View
  • Defining a duration
  • Defining dimensions and measures
  • Creating a pivot table
  • Using the BAM portal
BizTalk – Multibox Install
Author:Alan Smith (Oct 15 2008)
Pre installation Tasks
  • Create users and groups
  • Create databases
  • Installation
Install SSO Master Secret Server
  • Create BizTalk group on first BizTalk server
  • Join BizTalk group on second BizTalk server
BizTalk - Custom XSLT Mapping
Author:Alan Smith (Sep 30 2008)
  • Problems encountered developing complex maps
  • Replacing mapper functionality with custom XSLT
  • Using custom XSLT for EDI mapping
BizTalk - Sequential Convoy Sushi Server
Author:Alan Smith (Sep 30 2008)
  • Introduction to Convoys
  • Implementation of a Sequential Convoy
BizTalk - Advanced Correlation and Zombies
Author:Alan Smith (Aug 27 2008 )
  • Correlation, activation and instance subscriptions
  • Issues regarding correlation
  • Zombie messages
BizTalk - Basic Correlation
Author:Alan Smith (Aug 27 2008)
  • Introduction to BizTalk Services
  • Hosting a basic WCF service in the cloud
  • Creating a simple cloud-based file storage system

Community Videos

Spread for BizTalk Overview
Author:Far Point
A brief overview of the product and an example of how to use Spread for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006. This video shows how to use Spread for BizTalk in a common business process to parse an Excel (XLS) file into an XML data stream that matches the schema created at design time in Visual Studio 2005 using the Spread for BizTalk integrated Spreadsheet Schema Wizard.