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Steef-Jan Wiggers
Steef-Jan is IT architect/Consultant with over 13 years of experience as a technical lead developer and application architect, specializing in custom applications, enterprise application integration (BizTalk), Web services and Windows Azure. He has experience in architecting, designing, developing, and supporting sophisticated and innovative software using many different Microsoft technologies and products. Steef-Jan is very active in BizTalk community as blogger, Wiki author/editor, forums, writer and public speaker. He has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award (2010) for his contributions to the world-wide BizTalk Server community. He has been re-awarded July 2011. On his personal blog and company blog he shares his knowledge around SOA, Azure AppFabric (ServiceBus) and BizTalk. His certifications are: MCSD, MCSD.NET, MCSA, MCDBA, MCAD, MCTS: BizTalk Server 2006, BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and BizTalk Server 2010. Steef-Jan is author of the BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook, published 31th of March 2012.
BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook: Something BizTalk Administrators will like!
My first book written by myself is ready to be published. At the end of this month the BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook will be available throughout the world. It took a year to complete this book filled with over 50 recipes. Recipes that even BizTalk administrators will appreciate as at least two or three chapters are targetted towards them. They will recipes on monitoring BizTalk, using PAL, the BizTalk BenchMark Wizard, BizTalk MessageBoxViewer, BizTalk Deployment Framework, and configuring the vital BizTalk components like ESSO and MSDTC.
BizTalk Administration Momentum
A two weeks ago I wrote about the flying start this blog has made. Now this blog has double in number of posts from fourteen to twenty eight. I must say that is amazing and the number of bloggers has grown to eight; myself, Jeroen Hendriks, Lex Hegt, Sandro Pereira, Howard Edidin, Peter Winther, Joris Arts and Miguel Angel Castaño. You can find them in the bloggers section of this blog. It is not just this blog that plays an important role in the momentum BizTalk Administration, but also the TechNet Wiki. You can read my latest blog post there, where I also tell story on BizTalk administration.
A flying start for BizTalkAdminsblogging.com
BizTalkadminsblogging has had a tremendous start. Within a week and a half 13 posts already and this will be number 14. This is an average of almost two blog posts a day. This reflects the high demand for BizTalk administration related information, the need for sharing it and desire to create more exposure for this aspect of BizTalk Server. Jeroen and Joris have done an excellent job setting up this blog site, running and maintaining it. The recent posts have touched topics like PowerShell, Microsoft Operation Framework, and so on.
New blog for BizTalk Administrators
A new blog site on BizTalk Administration is born. Why? BizTalk administrators have a strong urge to share their knowledge with each other. The BizTalk community is strong and shares an incredible amount of knowledge through blogs, wiki's, presentations and other channels. Yet the focus is strong on development and less on administration. Development is cool and very popular. Is administration dull and less appealing?
