When?

Thursday, November 18th. At the Microsoft office in Akalla.

Session 1 at 17:30

Food break at around 18:30.

Session 2 at 19:00 to around 20:00.

Followed by opportunities for networking and interesting discussions.

Venue closes at 21:30 at the latest.

Note: There will be no presentation at the 27th of october as previously mentioned. Due to scheduling reasons this session instead is on the 18th of November. Apologies for any inconvinence this may have caused.

What?

"Mega community evening".

In conjuction with Microsofts Azure Summit (http://azuresummit.cloudapp.net/) on the 18th and 19th of November the .NET, SQL and BizTalk user groups will all have events on the evening of the 18th. This covers the BizTalk content.

Mapping

 Johan will talk about transformations and the BizTalk Mapper. He start of looking at some basic but perhaps not commonly known facts and how they affect, and should influence, us when we design, build and troubleshoot our maps. He will continue to look at how to solve some re-accuring mapping challenges using out of the box functoids as well as custom xslt and other helpers.

Orchestrations

 Jan will talk about orchestrations, in particular transactions. The talk will be focused around how transactions work, how exception handling works and how compensation works. Especially compensation is poorly described and rarely used and hopefully after this talk you will be better prepared to do proper compensation in your business processes. 

Who? 

Jan Eliasen is a Master of Science in Computer Science from back in 2003. Jan started as a BizTalk consultant at WM-data in June 2003 and has been working on and off with BizTalk ever since. Jan currently works at Logica as an IT-architect, focusing on designing solutions for customers that match their needs and bring value to their business. Jan is one of the few people that have passed all four existing exams for BizTalk and he received his first Microsoft MVP title in BizTalk in July 2004. Jan has been awarded the MVP title four times in total and is a current MVP in BizTalk. Currently, Jan is co-writing the “BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed” book alongside Brian Loesgen, Charles Young, Scott Colestock, Jon Flanders and Anush Kumar. He maintains a blog at http://blog.eliasen.dk/.

In his spare time Jan enjoys his family (wife and two boys) and tries to not mow the lawn or do anything else that might be hard or incur dirty hands.

Johan Hedberg is from Stockholm, Sweden. He works as a Solutions Architect, and as a speaker, mentor and trainer. He enjoys helping to grow good solutions and the people that develop them along with it. He holds a few technical certifications, and focuses on delivering the technical solutions that longterm best realizes the technology's potential and fulfills customer needs and expectations. He works with training provider AddSkills, developing and delivering training around BizTalk Server. For his ongoing community engagements he is a BizTalk Server MVP awardee. He maintains a blog at http://blogical.se/blogs/johan