This book provides insight into how industry experts have successfully architected, developed, and maintained Microsoft BizTalk Server in mission-critical environments. Authored by highly-regarded consultants with a wealth of knowledge on designing, building, and operating enterprise applications using BizTalk, this comprehensive guide gives you the techniques and best practices you?ll need to develop effective projects.
Darren Jefford is a Principal Consultant with the Microsoft UK Application Development Consulting (ADC) team who has extensive real-world experience with BizTalk Server and the broader Microsoft platform. Kevin B. Smith formerly worked as a Technical Lead Software Design Engineer for the BizTalk Server Product Team and helped ship three versions of BizTalk Server. Ewan Fairweather works as a Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft, providing onsite support to enterprise customers, including maintaining and optimizing their BizTalk Server solutions.
Achitects, developers, testers, and administrators will achieve instant success when they apply the deep technical information covered in this book. They will better appreciate the internal workings of BizTalk Server and will understand detailed solutions for challenges often experienced with BizTalk-based systems.
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Good book but not for beginners
This is a wonderful detailed book but the detailed part is probably what caused me to shave a star. The examples could use a lot more detail. The authors expect you to create a complicated solution on your own and then they show you how to make a couple of tweeks that will illustrate their point. I feel they assume you know a lot more than they snould, at least in my case. No, I am not just a dumbass. I've been working with BizTalk since 2000. I did manage to skip BizTalk 2004 due to a prolonged BizTalk 2002 project and then try to pick up with BizTalk 2006. That is quite a strectch. Anyway, it is a really good book but FAR from being anything a beginner will benefit from without other help.
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DON'T BUY ANYTHING,,NO SHIP,,NO EMAIL, BEWARE!
Never received and email from the seller, indicating the item shipped. Nor after me contacting wandering where my item is, I have now placed this into Amazon's claim service. Just beware I would not recommend this seller, and by looking a feed back seems like their score continues to drop.
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Absoulte Must have for your BizTalk WarChest
Professional BizTalk Server 2006 is one of those books which really goes over and above what you can find on online documentation . There are only few BizTalk books and thank god we have one like this . The books has a lot of hidden gems that will make you go 'aha '.
Absolute Must read if you love the Product. A great Chapter on Testing which I have not seen in any other BizTalk book .
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What developers need to know
Great book for all who want to know HOW BT really works and WHY it works like that. Very valuable purchase.
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Excellent reference book
It took a long time for decent BizTalk Server books to start appearing, and those of us who have been committed to the product for some time know the pain (and fun) of having to work out, for ourselves, how this product works, how best to apply it to real-life scenarios and how to exploit its rich functionality.
I was really impressed with this book. It has two characteristics which I think are particularly noteworthy. The first is that it offers a huge breadth of coverage, but also manages to combine this with reasonable depth. This is hard to achieve when writing about BizTalk Server because it is such a rich an extensive product. The second characteristic is that it reads like a book written by practitioners - people with real-life experience of using the product, and the scars to prove it. Indeed, that it very much the case, and it means that the book provides far more than just rehashed information. It provides guidance, advice and best practice which is rooted in reality.
I like to think I know a thing or two about BizTalk Server (though it still manages to spring surprises on me quite regularly). I am not greatly addicted to computer books, because so many fail to be of any very practical use. However, I can report that this is the first BizTalk book (and one of very few books, generally) that I've carried with me into engagements to use as a reference. Warmly commended and highly recommended, especially for those who have done enough with BizTalk Server to realise the extent of the mountain they must climb.
