Microsoft BizTalk

999 Acknowledgements for HIPAA 5010

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It is well documented that in order to generate 999 for HIPAA 5010, BizTalk 2010 CU3 should be downloaded and installed. CU3 install not only updates 999 – 5010 schema that comes with original RTM version, but it also installs bunch of run time DLLs. These DLLs enable BizTalk to…

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An Invitation to the Affordable EDI and Microsoft BizTalk Webinar

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If you’re an executive, systems developer, IT manager, or claims management professional, you’re invited to attend EDI Specialists’ upcoming webinar: Affordable EDI: Using BizTalk For the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, June 20th from 2:00-3:00PM EDT. In the webinar, presenter Mark Beckner will detail the competitive advantages your organization can…

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Beta Release of BizTalk 2013

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Keeping up with the promise made during the TechEd Conference this year, BizTalk team did Beta release of BizTalk 2013. As you may have noticed, the name was changed from BizTalk 2010R2 to BizTalk 2013. In addition to latest platform support, this version comes with some great features especially in…

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Future of Biztalk Looks Good

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The last TechEd Conference was a very important one from BizTalk perspective. Several announcements were made, but none of them more important than the fact that Microsoft will continue innovating BizTalk and releasing BizTalk versions for “years to come”. So, all the investments that clients have made so far will…

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Microsoft PDC Rebranded as Microsoft BUILD

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Beginning with the 2011 conference, Microsoft has decided to rebrand the Professional Developer Conference (PDC) as Microsoft BUILD (http://www.buildwindows.com/). The name change of this popular conference from Microsoft PDC to Microsoft BUILD does not appear to convey a different meaning. If fact, I am not entirely sure what message is…

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BizTalk is Dead? Really?

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Seriously, every time I hear the phrase “BizTalk is Dead” or “BizTalk is Obsolete”, I want to scream. The speculation of BizTalk’s downfall multiplies exponentially with each new release of Connected System stack technology. With the announcements of Oslo and recent Azure App Fabric –June CTP, the blogosphere exploded with cries…

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Processing Empty Files in BizTalk

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Over the past few weeks, I have been working on a particular BizTalk integration project, which required me to process empty BizTalk files (0 byte). The default behavior of FILE adapter is to delete empty BizTalk files, and then raise an event. At this point, the empty BizTalk file is…

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BizTalk and EDI Implementation

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Microsoft BizTalk Server entered the EDI workspace riding over Covast’s shoulder. Starting with the BizTalk 2006 version, Microsoft replaced Covast with built-in EDI support for BizTalk. EDI support became tightly integrated with BizTalk’s core engine. Since then, Electronic data interchange has become an important growing segment for Biztalk. I personally…

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