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BizTalk
18/02/2020

BizTalk Server Application Project : Release pipeline

This article will demonstrate how to deploy a BizTalk application on a BizTalk ‘On Premise’ server following generation of artifacts in Azure DevOps. The BizTalk Server Application project …
Pipeline
BizTalk
23/01/2020

BizTalk Server Application Project : Build pipeline

To undertake the operations described in this article, an Azure DevOps account with creation rights over pipelines is necessary. The aim of this article is to show how it is possible, from a …
App Settings simplification
Azure
22/12/2019

Simplifying App Settings with Azure App Configuration

The app settings of an App Service or Function App are realized by the key-value pairs (e.g. connections strings, API endpoints, …). If we have a large Azure solution with multiple services, then …
embed loops dual input map Microsoft BizTalk
BizTalk
12/11/2019

Embed loops in dual input map

Recently, wanting to apply conditions to a dual input map where both source messages have repeating nodes, I realized that this was no easy matter.   Message B (resulting from an SQL query) is …
Azure Hybride No matching shared key found
Azure
25/10/2019

On-Premise Data Gateway: No matching shared key found

I’ve experienced a strange behavior using On-Premise Data Gateway to access an on-premise API through Azure Logic Apps. I kept getting the following error message: status: 401 message: No matching …
Messages
BizTalk
20/10/2019

Aggregate Messages in an Orchestration with a Send Pipeline

In this article, we suggest using a send pipeline in an orchestration so as to aggregate messages. The advantages of this method are: proper control over the structure of aggregated messages; full …
Azure REST API Update workflow
Azure
18/10/2019

Azure Rest API: The request to patch workflow is not supported

I have recently used Azure REST API to manage Logic App Workflows in a custom Web application. One of my need was to update the Logic App trigger definition by using the Azure REST …
Azure cloud hybrid
Azure
07/10/2019

Using Azure Hybrid Connections

  In our integration solutions, we’re often dealing with a need to integrate an Azure cloud application with a client’s on-premise system. A while ago a colleague of mine wrote the article …
ack BizTalk Server
BizTalk
24/09/2019

Acknowledgment (ACK and NACK) handling with Microsoft BizTalk Server

We have seen, as part of a client project, the requirement to manage acknowledgments (ACK) and negative acknowledgments (NACK) when sending messages. This means we need to respond differently in the …
Dealing with uncompleted tasks at the end of sprint in Azure DevOps
DevOps
05/09/2019

Dealing with uncompleted tasks at the end of a sprint in Azure DevOps

Whether working in project mode or in a “Service Center” style integration team, it very often happens that the end of a sprint is reached with some tasks incomplete. According to the Agile …
apim function app
API Management
25/07/2019

Expose a function app with Azure API Management

In the same way as other resources that can be exposed as an API, the Azure functions that you have built can be exposed via Azure API Management (APIM). The benefit of using this method is that you …
graphQL with BizTalk Server
BizTalk
02/07/2019

GraphQL with BizTalk

To communicate with APIs, the message format generally used by Microsoft BizTalk Server is XML or Json. There are indeed some native pipeline components which allows us, while both sending and …