We've officially launched a new website dedicated to providing invaluable information around building Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM) solutions using the Microsoft platform.  As a part of this site, we've released our latest roadmap and product strategy around the next generation of ...

Co-worker and Microsoft Architect, David Chou went to the IT Architect Regional Conference 2007 event in San Diego. A discussion about the myriad of conflicting issues in planning and designing security for enterprise SOA efforts, and some suggested approaches for navigating the issues and solution approaches. and writes about it on his ...

You may recall in a previous post, I wrote about how I led a couple of projects to migrate Conservation International's public websites to SharePoint Server 2007 as well as implement a Silverlight v1.1-based Carbon Offset Calculator that is currently hosted on Conservation International's newly re-launched ...

First, let me say I wholeheartedly applaud Microsoft's efforts on NHIN and with CHF. We have to start somewhere. I represent the small software developer who is trying to develop and market a new front-end product for the healthcare market with some ideas that have been piloted in a few places. What has led me to despair in the past is ...

The challenge of exposing data the web is being taken on by the Microsoft SQL Server team with (codename) Astoria project.  Here's the description from the Astoria Project Site (where you can get the CTP today): http://astoria.mslivelabs.com/. Description: ''The goal of Microsoft Codename Astoria is to enable applications to expose data ...

I just found this free course on MSDN, amongst others that are offered for free.  I am in the process of getting smarter on BizTalk 2006, so that I can understand it from an SOA perspective and have been looking for as many free resources to help me get there as I could find. If you are interested in understanding the basics of BizTalk 2006 ...

We have released version 2.1.1 of the Health Connection Engine to CodePlex. The release addresses a few issues we identified in setup and the Deployment Guide and some security and performance warning raised by FxCop. From the project description: ''The Health Connection Engine facilitates the interoperability between these multiple systems by ...

Pretty cool, there WILL be a solution for hosting Windows Workflow Foundation workflows in BizTalk Server 2006.  Paul Andrew has more details here. -Marc

This is the presentation that was used during the Connected Health Framework Webcast on January 16th 2007. You can access the details of the session and the recording online at https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-us&RegistrationID=1287874341. The presentation is in PowerPoint 2007 format.

Do you want to learn how to quickly convert your .NET Applications/Components to Service Oriented Solutions?  If so, then that's perfect, because I want to show you how easy it will be with the .NET 3.0 Framework and Windows Communication Foundation.  Register and attend my web cast and I promise very little PowerPoint (just for a bit of ...