Melbourne BizTalk User Group Blog

Next Melbourne BizTalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday 2nd September 2009

Bill Chesnut — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:33:00 GMT

We will be holding the next Melbourne BizTalk User Group Meeting on Wednesday 2nd September 2009 at 5:30pm

The venue and sponsor for the meeting will be Stargate Group at Level 3, 600 Victoria Street, Richmond

The topics will be: More ESB 2.0 Toolkit

Grant Samuels from Stargate Global Consulting BizTalk Team will do a presentation on Itineraries & UDDI
Bill Chesnut from Stargate Global Consulting BizTalk Team will do a presentation on ESB Exception Management and Repair & Resubmit

Please note we are starting the meeting at 5:30pm and there will be food and drinks supplied

If you cannot attend the meeting it will also be available via Live Meeting (Join the Meeting), starting at 6:00pm

Please RSVP for rsvp@melbiz.org if you plan on attending the meeting.

Next Melbourne BizTalk User Group Meeting – Tuesday 4th August 2009

Bill Chesnut — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:21:27 GMT

We will be holding the next Melbourne BizTalk User Group Meeting on Tuesday 4th August 2009 at 5:30pm

The venue and sponsor for the meeting will be Stargate Group at Level 3, 600 Victoria Street, Richmond

The topics will be: ESB 2.0 Toolkit

BizTalk Team from Stargate Global Consulting will do a presentation on Installing the ESB 2.0 Toolkit
BizTalk Team from Stargate Global Consulting will do a presentation on Introduction to Itineraries
BizTalk Team from Stargate Global Consulting will do a presentation on Exception Management Framework

Please note we are starting the meeting at 5:30pm and there will be food and drinks supplied

If you cannot attend the meeting it will also be available via Live Meeting (Join the Meeting), starting at 6:00pm

Please RSVP for rsvp@melbiz.org if you plan on attending the meeting.

BizTalk 2009 Hands on Days

Bill Chesnut — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:41:08 GMT

The Australian BizTalk User Groups would like to invite you to experience “what is new” in BizTalk Server 2009 in a series of one day Hands On Labs that will tour Australia in May and June.

These labs are designed for anyone who has used a previous version of BizTalk Server and wishes to explore firsthand the new features in BizTalk Server 2009. You will have an a dedicated BizTalk 2009 development environment to use during the event and the option to work on the hands on labs modules or experiment with the new features. The BizTalk Server 2009 development environment will include BizTalk Server 2009, RFID, ESB 2.0, Windows 2008, SQL Server 2008, Team Foundation Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite.

The BizTalk Server 2009 release demonstrates Microsoft’s continued commitment to the BizTalk Server product family. Please join your local User Groups supporting this offering (the Sydney Connected Systems User Group, the Brisbane BizTalk Community (BrizTalk) and the Melbourne BizTalk User Group) and experience how the new features in BizTalk Server 2009 can extend and connect your existing applications, and deliver new projects more rapidly.

The Hands On Days will be on the following dates:

Melbourne	Brisbane	Sydney	Canberra	Perth	Adelaide
Saturday May 30th	Saturday June 13th	Saturday June 20th	TBA	TBA	TBA
Cliftons Melbourne Level 1, 440 Collins Street Melbourne, VIC 3000	Cliftons Brisbane 288 Edward Street Brisbane QLD 4000	Cliftons Sydney 190-200 George Street Sydney, NSW 2000	TBA	TBA	TBA
			Register Your Interest	Register Your Interest	Register Your Interest
Register early as there are limited seats.

The Event cost is $200* (inc GST) and will include lunch.

The event fee will be used to cover the venue and travel expenses of the presenters, any left over funds will be used for food and drinks at upcoming user group events.

* Please note that the registration fee will be processed via PayPal by Chesnut Consulting Services

Agenda for the Days
			Presenters
Time	Topic	Duration	Melbourne	Brisbane	Sydney
9:00 AM	Intro	15 minutes	Bill Chesnut	Daniel Toomey	Mick Badran
9:15 AM	What’s New in 2009	60 minutes*	Bill Chesnut	Daniel Toomey	Mick Badran
10:15 AM	TFS Integration (Unit Testing & Automated Build)	60 minutes	Bill Chesnut	Dean Robertson	Bill Chesnut
11:15 AM	RFID	60 minutes	Mick Badran	Mick Badran	Mick Badran
12:15 PM	Lunch / Networking	45 minutes
1:00 PM	Enterprise Integration (WCF LOB adapters, EDI, AS2 and Accelerators)	60 minutes	Miguel Herrera	Miguel Herrera	Miguel Herrera
2:00 PM	ESB 2.0	60 minutes	Bill Chesnut	Bill Chesnut	Bill Chesnut
3:00 PM	Trouble Shooting & Problem Determination	60 minutes	Miguel Herrera	Miguel Herrera	Miguel Herrera
4:00 PM	Q & A	30 minutes	All	All	All
4:30 PM	End of Day

* Each presentation will finish in time for the attendees to have a chance to put what they have learned to use on the BizTalk 2009 Environments that will be provided.

Live Meeting Invitation for Melbourne BizTalk User Group Meeting 5 Feb 2009

Bill Chesnut — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:37:07 GMT

Melbourne BizTalk User Group has invited you to attend an online meeting using Live Meeting.
Join the meeting.
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Next Melbourne BizTalk User Group Meeting - Thursday 5th February 2009

Bill Chesnut — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:52:00 GMT

We will be holding the next Melbourne BizTalk User Group Meeting on Thursday 5th February 2009 at 5:30pm

The venue and sponsor for the meeting will be Stargate Group at Level 3, 600 Victoria Street, Richmond

The topics will be:

Bill Chesnut from Stargate Group (www.stargategroup.com.au) will do a presentation on "Deep Diving into Windows Azure Programming"

Bill Chesnut from Stargate Group (www.stargategroup.com.au) will do a presentation on "1st Look at Dublin (WF & WCF)"

Please note we are starting the meeting at 5:30pm and there will be food and drinks supplied

Please rsvp for rsvp@melbiz.org if you plan on attending the meeting.

Offer from our Sponsor: $250 discount for BizTalk Training In Jan 2009

Bill Chesnut — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:35:00 GMT

Stargate Global Consulting is offering Melbourne BizTalk User Group members (you must be registered on the www.melbiz.org website) a $250 discount on the following BizTalk Training Courses:

January 12th-16th - BizTalk "Developer Ready" in Melbourne - http://www.stargateglobalconsulting.com.au/biztalk_readytraining.aspx

January 19th -23rd - BizTalk "Deep Dive" in Melbourne - http://www.stargateglobalconsulting.com.au/biztalk_training.aspx

Any questions, please contact Bill Chesnut, via comments.

Changes to Melbourne BizTalk User Group Mailing Lists

Bill Chesnut — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:20:00 GMT

I have made some changes to the way the Meeting Announcement mail list will work, currently we are using a manually maintained mailing list. Going forward we are going to use the mailing list provided by the website.

What you need to do:

once logged onto the site, go to the Mailing List page

Join the Meeting Announcement list

Join the Special Offers list (this is for company that want to make discount offers available to the members)

The next meeting announcement will be sent out to the Meeting Announcement list ONLY.

Next Melbourne BizTalk User Group Meeting - Tuesday 2nd December 2008

Bill Chesnut — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:33:00 GMT

We will be holding the next Melbourne BizTalk User Group Meeting on Tuesday 2nd December 2008 at 5:30pm

The venue and sponsor for the meeting will be Stargate Group at Level 3, 600 Victoria Street, Richmond

The topics will be:

Bill Chesnut from Stargate Group (www.stargategroup.com.au) will do a presentation on "1st Look at BizTalk Server 2009"

Bill Chesnut from Stargate Group (www.stargategroup.com.au) will do a presentation on "PDC Recap - Windows Azure & Dublin"

Please note we are starting the meeting at 5:30pm and there will be food and drinks supplied

Please rsvp for rsvp@melbiz.org if you plan on attending the meeting.

Next Melbourne BizTalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday 6th May

Bill Chesnut — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:55:31 GMT

We will be holding the next Melbourne BizTalk User Group Meeting on Tuesday 6th May 2008 at 5:30pm

*** The correct date is Tuesday 6th of May ***

The venue and sponsor for the meeting will be Stargate Group at Level 3, 600 Victoria Street, Richmond

The topics will be:

Bill Chesnut from Stargate Group (www.stargategroup.com.au) will do a presentation on "Introduction to Trading Partner Management"

Bill Chesnut from Stargate Group (www.stargategroup.com.au) will do a presentation on "Advanced BizTalk Rule Engine Examples"

Please note we are starting the meeting at 5:30pm and there will be food and drinks supplied

Please rsvp for rsvp@melbiz.org if you plan on attending the meeting.

Next Melbourne BizTalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday 5th March

Bill Chesnut — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:59:34 GMT

We will be holding the next Melbourne BizTalk User Group Meeting on Wednesday 5th March 2008 at 5:30pm

(moved from the 1st Tuesday of the month, due to the Microsoft 2008 Melbourne Launch event on the 4th of March)

The venue and sponsor for the meeting will be Stargate Group at Level 3, 600 Victoria Street, Richmond

The topics will be:

Bill Chesnut from Stargate Group (www.stargategroup.com.au) will do a presentation on "BizTalk 2006 R2 WCF Examples"

Bill Chesnut from Stargate Group (www.stargategroup.com.au) will do a presentation on "BizTalk Server 2006 & 2006 R2 Tips, Tricks & Code Samples"

Please note we are starting the meeting at 5:30pm and there will be food and drinks supplied

Please rsvp for rsvp@melbiz.org if you plan on attending the meeting.