I wanted to talk a little about the architecture I designed recently for a Dynamics CRM + Portal + Integration project. In the initial stages of the project a number of options were considered for a Portal (or group of portals) which would support staff, students and other users which would integrate with Dynamics CRM […]
While chatting to Jeff Holland on integration Monday this evening I mentioned some thinking I had been doing around how to articulate the various products within the Microsoft Integration Platform in terms of their codeless vs Serverless nature. Below is a rough diagram with me brain dumping a rough idea where each product would be […]
Recently I have been thinking about a sample use case where you may want to expose legacy applications via a hybrid API but you have the challenge that the underlying LOB applications are not really fit for purpose to be the underlying sub-systems for a hybrid API. In this case we have some information held […]
Recently I was working with Azure API Management creating an API and I needed to create an operation which would return some relatively constant/static data. Lets say for example this was some configuration data such as a list of settings an app could use. With this scenario the challenge is how to implement the solution […]
Recently I presented an Integration Monday session where I talked about how integration developers could leverage Application Insights on Azure to be able to improve the monitoring experience of the typical components we have and I also talked about product positioning and how it might relate to other monitoring and devops style tools. I showed […]
I recently wrote a sample for a WCF behaviour extension to allow you to consume an API in BizTalk if it was secured with Azure Active Directory. In this video I have used that sample to show how you can use the Power BI API from BizTalk Server in a very simple way using the […]
Recently I created a proof of concept using a WCF behaviour extension to consume services which require authentication against Azure Active Directory. The idea here is that if you want to consume an API and wish to use a service account credential you can configure the service account in Azure AD or alternatively on premise […]
Ive been thinking a little about some of the different technologies in the Microsoft stack and how they overlay on the different capabilities I need within the integration architectures I have been involved with over the years. Below I have tried to list as many of the different integration capabilities that come to mind as […]
Recently I wanted to add messages to Yammer to inform people about the deployment of components being performed. I wanted to add something to my deployment scripts to make this happen in an automated fashion. I was looking into the Yammer API options and some samples but while they initially looked ok I found it […]
The video from the session I did with Oliver Davy at the London BizTalk Summit is now available online. In this video we talked about why integration is important to the university of northumbria and how we saw the evolution of their integration platform. Finally we showed a demo from a reference architecture which used […]