I work for Microsoft now

David Vidmar — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:00:27 GMT

It’s been quiet around here and for a good reason. As I hinted before there has been many changes in my life recently. In same week I became father for second time (father of three boys now, twins and a new baby!), finally finished my engineer’s degree and finally, I joined the ranks of best company in the world to work for – Microsoft.

I’ll be working as I consultant for Biztalk Server and Forefront Identity Manager and from time to time a Dynamics CRM consultant.

So, what can you expect? Occasional dry stints, lots of BTS and FIM links, Windows Phone 7, Azure and Windows 8 and other cool Microsoft stuff.

If you are fellow Microsoftie, please look me up and drop me a note – let’s connect!

Automatically map similar schemas in BizTalk 2009 (and earlier!) [BizTalk]

David Vidmar — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:07:14 GMT

You might have heard that BizTalk 2010 has a neat feature that lets you create automatic links in maps either by name or by structures. Well, with little work you can have that in BizTalk 2009 and earlier. Kind of.

The main thing is, the map files (.btm) are compatible. So what you can do is copy/paste schemas in dummy BTS 2010 project, create a map, link records automatically and copy/paste new map in BTS 2009 project.

If you have big schemas this can be a real time saver. I just saved me some time, so I spent it on writing this post.