Azure SQL Database announcements

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  New service update available for SQL Data Sync!
  Shirley Wang [ADF] Thursday, May 28, 2015 2:58 PM

  While it has been 3+ years since we last announced an update to SQL Data Sync service, we have been continuously deploying updates to the backend service to address top customer issues.  We are listening to your feedback, and today we are happy to announce the latest update which includes both service changes and a new SQL Data Sync agent install.  This update includes two main enhancements:

  1. Support for synchronizing tables that have column collations:
  • If the selected sync schema tables do not already exist in your hub or member databases, upon deploying the sync group, SQL Data Sync will automatically create corresponding tables and columns in the empty database with the same collation settings as the select sync schema.
  • If the tables to-be-synced are already created in both hub and member databases, SQL Data Sync requires the primary key columns have the same collation between hub/member databases to successfully deploy the sync group.  There is no collation restriction on the non-primary key columns.
  2. Improvements to performance and resilience:
  • We enhanced batch transfer of serialized changes from source to destination, so you should see faster sync throughput.
  • We improved transient error handling logic when reading from the source or writing to the destination.

  The new version of SQL Data Sync agent in the download center.  Please follow the step-by-step instructions here to install a new Data Sync agent.  If you have an existing agent, you can refer to this MSDN article for detailed upgrade procedures.  A previous version of Data Sync agent will continue to work until it expires on 8/18/2015.

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  Understand Azure SQL Database and SQL Server in Azure VM
  Vinod Ramakrishna Friday, October 3, 2014 6:35 PM

  Microsoft Azure provides you two options when hosting your SQL Server-based data: Azure SQL Database and SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machine. This new article explains how each option fits into the big picture in Microsoft’s Data Platform, and then discusses the common business motivations that might affect your choice. Please take a look at it!

  http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/data-management-azure-sql-database-and-sql-server-iaas/

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  Selcin Turkarslan

Azure Storage announcements

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  Azure Ultra disks GA
  DiegoRamirez-MSFT Thursday, August 15, 2019 3:25 PM

  With general availability of Microsoft Azure Ultra Disks Storage today, we are delivering the next generation of our highly performant Azure Managed Disk, for data intensive workloads migrating to or running in the cloud. Azure Ultra Disk will help you get maximum extremely scalable performance and sub-millisecond latency for applications and databases like SAP HANA, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Cassandra, Oracle DB, Postgre SQL, NoSQL, MySQL and many more.

  Azure Ultra Disks will give you access to the best in class IOPS, throughput and latency in the cloud. You can now:

  • Choose from a range of different disks sizes ranging from 4 GiB up to 64 TiB with granular increments
  • Scale performance up to 160K IOPS and 2 GB/s per disk with zero downtime using our flexible innovative design
  • Achieve the optimal performance you need per disk even at low storage capacities 

  Our preview customers have benefited by achieving new levels of performance and scale on Azure for their Virtual Machine and Container workloads. Get started today with Azure Ultra Disk Storage.  Please refer to our how-to-guidefor a deep dive and learn more at https://aka.ms/UltraDiskBlog.

  
  

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  Archived Windows Azure Storage Forum Content
  Brad Calder Saturday, March 26, 2011 6:48 PM

  When the forums moved into specialized areas, the original forum content for Windows Azure was left archived at this link:

   

  http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-GB/windowsazure/

   

   

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  Windows Azure Storage Team Blog
  Brad Calder Saturday, March 26, 2011 6:58 AM

  Please see the Windows Azure Storage Team Blog for more information on Windows Azure Storage

   

  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/

   

BizTalk Server Adapters and Adapter Pack announcements

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  Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 2
  Paul Larsen (Microsoft) Tuesday, November 21, 2017 10:13 PM

  Available now is Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 2. This update to BizTalk Server 2016 contains new and improved capabilities for modernizing BizTalk Server workloads in the areas of deployment, runtime and analytics.

  Deployment and Administration

  • Application Lifecycle Management with VSTS
  • Using Visual Studio Team Services, you can define multi-server deployments of BizTalk Server 2016, and then maintain those systems throughout the application lifecycle.
  • Backup to Azure Blob Storage
  • When deploying BizTalk Server to Azure VMs, you can backup BizTalk Server databases to Azure blob storage.

  Server Runtime

  • Adapter for Service Bus v2
  • When using the Service Bus Adapter, you can utilize Azure Service Bus Premium for enterprise-scale workloads.
  • Transport Layer Security 1.2
  • Securely deploy BizTalk Server using industry-standard TLS 1.2 authentication and encryption.
  • API Management
  • Publish Orchestration endpoints using Azure API Management, enabling organizations to publish APIs to external, partner and internal developers to unlock the potential of their data and services.
  • Event Hubs
  • Using the new Event Hub Adapter, BizTalk Server can send and receive messages with Azure Event Hubs, where BizTalk Server can function as both an event publisher and subscriber, as part of a new Azure cloud-based event-driven application.

  Analytics and Reporting

  • Event Hubs
  • Send BizTalk Server tracking data to Azure Event Hubs, a hyper-scale telemetry ingestion service that collects, transforms, and stores millions of events.
  • Application Insights
  • When preparing BizTalk Server to send tracking data to Application Insights, released in FP1, you can use the new Azure sign-in dialog to simplify configuration and named instances of SQL Server.

  Licensing

  • Microsoft customers with Software Assurance or Azure Enterprise Agreements are licensed to use Feature Pack 2.
  • BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 2 can be installed on Enterprise and Developer editions only.

  Software

  • BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 2 contains all the functionality of Feature Pack 1, plus all the fixes in Cumulative Update 3.
  • You can install Feature Pack 2 on BizTalk Server 2016 Enterprise and Developer Edition (retail, CU1, CU2, CU3, FP1).
  • Download the software now from the Microsoft Download Center.

  Documentation

  You can learn more about FP2 by reading the documentation articles. Please contribute to improving our documentation, by joining our BizTalk Server community on GitHub.

  Feedback

  Contribute to the community by participating in our forum, reading our blog, following us on Twitter (@BizTalk_Server), as well as providing product input using our BizTalk User Voice.

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  BizTalk Server 2013: Connect to Window Azure Blob Storage Sample
  Steef-Jan Wiggers Monday, October 14, 2013 12:01 PM

  Sample based on WCF-WebHttp Adapter and Windows Azure Blob Storage is available in code gallery through this link.
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  BizTalk Server 2013: WCF-BasicHttpRelay Adapter Sample
  Steef-Jan Wiggers Monday, October 14, 2013 12:00 PM

  Sample based on WCF-BasicHttpRelay Adapter is available in code gallery through this link.
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  BizTalk Server 2013: WCF-NetTcpRelay Adapter Sample
  Steef-Jan Wiggers Monday, October 14, 2013 11:59 AM

  Sample based on WCF-NetTcpRelay Adapter is available in code gallery through this link.
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  BizTalk Server 2013: WCF-WebHttp Adapter Sample
  Steef-Jan Wiggers Monday, October 14, 2013 11:58 AM

  Sample based on WCF-WebHttp Adapter is available in code gallery through this link.
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  BizTalk Server Resources on the TechNet Wiki
  Steef-Jan Wiggers Sunday, December 11, 2011 8:28 PM

  You will find many BizTalk Server related article on TechNet Wiki. Best entry point is BizTalk Server Resources on the TechNet Wiki.
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  BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010 - SQL Azure Connectivity
  Steef-Jan Wiggers Friday, October 28, 2011 8:28 PM

  Sample available to demonstrate connectivity with SQL Azure. It is based on the Polling SQL Azure Database Table with WCF-SQL Adapter blog post.
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  BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010 - Table Operation Sample
  Steef-Jan Wiggers Friday, October 28, 2011 8:18 PM

  Sample based on Table Operation on Oracle 11g XE with OracleDbBinding blog post is available in code gallery through this link.

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  BizTalk Server Adapter Pack 2010 Wiki Article
  Steef-Jan Wiggers Friday, October 21, 2011 9:17 PM

  There is a wiki article on BizTalk Server Adapter Pack, describing background, architecture and configuration.

  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/biztalk-server-adapter-pack-2010.aspx

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  BizTalk Dynamics CRM Adapter for BizTalk 2009 available
  Yossi Dahan Thursday, September 10, 2009 7:58 AM

  The new CRM Adapter is available here:

  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=abd3bb9e-a59a-4eb6-8de8-fb25b77926d7

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  BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 links
  Vivek Krishna Tuesday, May 12, 2009 9:42 AM

  Adapter Pack 2.0 is relased.The below blog entry summarizes all the links on the web you need to get started
  
  http://blogs.msdn.com/adapters/archive/2009/05/04/biztalk-adapter-pack-2-0-is-now-available.aspx
  
  

BizTalk Server EDI and AS2 announcements

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  BizTalk Server Resources on the TechNet Wiki
  Steef-Jan Wiggers Sunday, December 11, 2011 8:29 PM

  You will find many BizTalk Server related article on TechNet Wiki. Best entry point is BizTalk Server Resources on the TechNet Wiki.

BizTalk Server General announcements

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  Updated product roadmap, start of new BizTalk Server vNext project
  Paul Larsen (Microsoft) Monday, August 13, 2018 5:24 PM

  We have some great news to share! We've updated our Microsoft Integration Product Roadmap. See our BizTalk Team Blog, at https://aka.ms/btsblog. We are starting our new BizTalk Server vNext project. Let us know what you want and need in BizTalk Server vNext.

  Paul Larsen [MS]
  Microsoft BizTalk Server Team

   

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  Updated product roadmap, start of new BizTalk Server vNext project
  Paul Larsen (Microsoft) Monday, August 13, 2018 5:24 PM

  We have some great news to share! We've updated our Microsoft Integration Product Roadmap. See our BizTalk Team Blog, at https://aka.ms/btsblog. We are starting our new BizTalk Server vNext project. Let us know what you want and need in BizTalk Server vNext.

  Paul Larsen [MS]
  Microsoft BizTalk Server Team

   

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  Announcing the availability of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 3
  Paul Larsen (Microsoft) Tuesday, June 26, 2018 12:46 AM

  Available now is Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 3. This update to BizTalk Server 2016 contains new and improved capabilities for integrating BizTalk Server workloads with Office 365 Outlook Email, Calendar, and Contact resources.

  Office 365 Adapters
  

  Microsoft Office 365 is a cloud-based subscription service that brings together the best tools for the way people work today. By combining best-in-class apps like Excel and Outlook with powerful cloud services like OneDrive and Microsoft Teams, Office 365 lets anyone create and share anywhere on any device.

  Microsoft BizTalk Server Adapters for Office 365 enable IT professionals and enterprise developers to integrate Outlook mail, contacts, and schedules with new solutions based on BizTalk Server 2016.

  Office 365 Mail Adapter
  

  Using the BizTalk Adapter for Office 365 Mail, you can read, mark as read or delete, Outlook e-mail messages through one-way BizTalk Server receive locations. Using the Office 365 Mail Adapter, you can write e-mail message, including setting message priority, through one-way static or dynamic BizTalk Server send ports.

  Office 365 Calendar Adapter
  

  Using the BizTalk Adapter for Office 365 Calendar, you can get future calendar events through one-way BizTalk Server receive locations. Using the Office 365 Calendar Adapter, you can create calendar events, including specifying required and optional attendees, through one-way static or dynamic BizTalk Server send ports.

  Office 365 Contact Adapter
  

  Using the BizTalk Adapter for Office 365 Contact, you can create contacts, by specifying all settings, through one-way static or dynamic BizTalk Server send ports.

  Licensing

  • Microsoft customers with Software Assurance or Azure Enterprise Agreements are licensed to use Feature Pack 3.
  • BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 3 can be installed on Enterprise and Developer editions only.

  Software
  

  • BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 3 contains all the functionality of Feature Packs 1 and 2, plus all the fixes in Cumulative Update 5.
  • You can install Feature Pack 3 on BizTalk Server 2016 Enterprise and Developer Edition (retail, CU1, CU2, CU3, CU4, FP1, FP2).
  • Download the software now from the Microsoft Download Center.

  Documentation
  

  You can learn more about Feature Pack 3 by reading the documentation articles. Please contribute to improving our documentation, by joining our BizTalk Server community on GitHub.

  
  
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  Announcing the availability of BizTalk Server 2016 Cumulative Update 5
  Paul Larsen (Microsoft) Tuesday, June 26, 2018 12:42 AM

  Microsoft BizTalk Server product team has released Cumulative Update 5 for BizTalk Server 2016. For more information, see Microsoft Knowledgebase Article 4132957, posted to https://support.microsoft.com/help/4132957.
  
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  Announcing availability of BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Cumulative Update 8
  Paul Larsen (Microsoft) Wednesday, March 21, 2018 7:05 PM

  Microsoft BizTalk Server product team has released Cumulative Update 8 for BizTalk Server 2013 R2. For more information, see Microsoft Knowledgebase Article 4052527, posted to https://support.microsoft.com/help/4052527.

  Microsoft BizTalk Server Product Team

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  Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 2
  Paul Larsen (Microsoft) Tuesday, November 21, 2017 10:15 PM

  Available now is Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 2. This update to BizTalk Server 2016 contains new and improved capabilities for modernizing BizTalk Server workloads in the areas of deployment, runtime and analytics.

  Deployment and Administration

  • Application Lifecycle Management with VSTS
  • Using Visual Studio Team Services, you can define multi-server deployments of BizTalk Server 2016, and then maintain those systems throughout the application lifecycle.
  • Backup to Azure Blob Storage
  • When deploying BizTalk Server to Azure VMs, you can backup BizTalk Server databases to Azure blob storage.

  Server Runtime

  • Adapter for Service Bus v2
  • When using the Service Bus Adapter, you can utilize Azure Service Bus Premium for enterprise-scale workloads.
  • Transport Layer Security 1.2
  • Securely deploy BizTalk Server using industry-standard TLS 1.2 authentication and encryption.
  • API Management
  • Publish Orchestration endpoints using Azure API Management, enabling organizations to publish APIs to external, partner and internal developers to unlock the potential of their data and services.
  • Event Hubs
  • Using the new Event Hub Adapter, BizTalk Server can send and receive messages with Azure Event Hubs, where BizTalk Server can function as both an event publisher and subscriber, as part of a new Azure cloud-based event-driven application.

  Analytics and Reporting

  • Event Hubs
  • Send BizTalk Server tracking data to Azure Event Hubs, a hyper-scale telemetry ingestion service that collects, transforms, and stores millions of events.
  • Application Insights
  • When preparing BizTalk Server to send tracking data to Application Insights, released in FP1, you can use the new Azure sign-in dialog to simplify configuration and named instances of SQL Server.

  Licensing

  • Microsoft customers with Software Assurance or Azure Enterprise Agreements are licensed to use Feature Pack 2.
  • BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 2 can be installed on Enterprise and Developer editions only.

  Software

  • BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 2 contains all the functionality of Feature Pack 1, plus all the fixes in Cumulative Update 3.
  • You can install Feature Pack 2 on BizTalk Server 2016 Enterprise and Developer Edition (retail, CU1, CU2, CU3, FP1).
  • Download the software now from the Microsoft Download Center.

  Documentation

  You can learn more about FP2 by reading the documentation articles. Please contribute to improving our documentation, by joining our BizTalk Server community on GitHub.

  Feedback

  Contribute to the community by participating in our forum, reading our blog, following us on Twitter (@BizTalk_Server), as well as providing product input using our BizTalk User Voice.

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  Announcing availability of BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Cumulative Update 7
  Paul Larsen (Microsoft) Thursday, October 12, 2017 6:08 PM

  Microsoft BizTalk Server product team has released Cumulative Update 7 for BizTalk Server 2013 R2. For more information, see Microsoft Knowledgebase Article 4038891, posted to https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4038891.

  
  BizTalk Server Team
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  Announcing availability of BizTalk Server 2016 Cumulative Update 3
  Paul Larsen (Microsoft) Monday, September 4, 2017 5:39 PM

  Microsoft BizTalk Server product team has released Cumulative Update 3 for BizTalk Server 2016. For more information, see https://support.microsoft.com/help/4039664.

  BizTalk Server Team

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  BizTalk SalesForce Integration: Login authentication
  Steef-Jan Wiggers Monday, October 14, 2013 12:03 PM

  Sample based on integration with SalesForce using SOAP is available in code gallery through this link.
  
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  List of Errors and Warnings, Causes and Solutions on TechNet Wiki
  Sandro Pereira Thursday, May 17, 2012 1:40 PM

  This article is intended to be a knowledge base of all Errors and Warnings, Causes and Solutions documented, by community members, in all stages/components of BizTalk: different stages of development, deployment, adapters, runtime, setup and configuration… Read more here

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  BizTalk Server Resources on the TechNet Wiki
  Steef-Jan Wiggers Sunday, December 11, 2011 8:28 PM

  You will find many BizTalk Server related article on TechNet Wiki. Best entry point is BizTalk Server Resources on the TechNet Wiki.
  
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  BizTalk Server 2010 - Tools Wiki Article
  Steef-Jan Wiggers Friday, October 28, 2011 8:40 PM

  Through the internet you can find numerous tools that can help you for instance in automating deployment, analyze your BizTalk environment or identify performance issues. You will find these tools on Operating System, Codeplex or Microsoft Download Center. Read more here.