A. Tell your customers: May Developer Web Casts Coming Up

MSDN Webcast: Migrating from BizTalk Server 2002 to 2004
May 03, 2004
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time
Erik Leaseburg, Consultant, Microsoft Corporation
With proper planning and execution, migrating a business application from Microsoft BizTalk® Server 2002 to BizTalk Server 2004 can be carried out efficiently and effectively. Solutions that are migrated to BizTalk Server 2004 can then take advantage of its many new features and improved performance. The purpose of this webcast is to provide guidance on how to plan and execute the migration of an existing BizTalk Server 2002 solution to 2004. The BizTalk Server 2004 migration wizard for migrating messaging artifacts will be demonstrated along with best practices for migrating orchestrations. 

MSDN Webcast: BizTalk Server 2004 Adapters for the Visual Studio .NET Developer
May 07, 2004
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Pacific Time
Ram Nagasubramani, Lead Product Manager, Microsoft
BizTalk® Server 2004 includes a completely revamped adapter framework with support for tightly integrated UI, streaming runtime, large files and many more features. Learn how to build adapters with the new framework by being on hand for the demonstrations in this webcast.

MSDN Webcast: Advanced Orchestration Concepts in BizTalk Server 2004
May 21, 2004
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Pacific Time
Erik Leaseburg, Consultant, Microsoft Corporation
The performance and capabilities of orchestration in BizTalk® Server 2004 have been greatly enhanced over previous versions. After growing comfortable building simple orchestrations, you May be wondering how to take those orchestrations to the next level. The purpose of this webcast is to demonstrate several advanced features of orchestration in BizTalk Server 2004 including Correlation, Convoys, Composition, Transactions and Error Handling. 

MSDN Webcast: Extending Mainframe Applications using BizTalk Server 2004 and Host Integration 2004
May 24, 2004
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Pacific Time
Paul Larsen, GROUP PROGRAM MANAGER, Microsoft
This webcast demonstrates how to integrate your existing IBM mainframe assets with new enterprise solutions based on BizTalk® Server using Host Integration Server 2004. HIS provides the key enabling technologies you need to extend your IBM network, security, messaging, data and application systems running on these IBM host computers.

B. Tell your customers: February & March Developer Web Casts Available On-Demand 

Lots of technical content is already recorded. Start with the first web-cast below if your customer is new with BizTalk Server.

MSDN Webcast: Getting up to speed with BizTalk Server 2004 for the Visual Studio .NET Developer

MSDN Webcast: Real-World BizTalk Server 2004 Editing and Mapping Techniques

MSDN Webcast: Building on BizTalk Server 2004 Human Workflow Services for the Visual Studio .NET developer

MSDN Webcast: BizTalk Server 2004 EDI with and without the Covast Accelerator

MSDN Webcast: InfoPath SP1 and BizTalk Server

MSDN Webcast: BizTalk Server 2004 Orchestration for the Visual Studio .NET Developer 

MSDN Webcast: BizTalk Server 2004 Architecture

MSDN Webcast: BizTalk Server 2004 Performance and Early Adopter Experiences 

MSDN Webcast: Using Web Services with BizTalk Server 2004

MSDN Webcast: BizTalk Server 2004 Business Rules for the Visual Studio .NET Developer 

MSDN Webcast:  Integrating BizTalk Server 2004 with SharePoint

MSDN Webcast: Extending Mainframe Applications using BizTalk Server 2004 and Host Integration 2004

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As promised here is a link to the slides from todays Virtual PC presentation by Rich -

This online Webinar covers how to use Virtual PC 2004 in a test environment, specifically for use in testing a given application against multiple Operating System configurations.  We will show how to use Virtual PC to pre-configure multiple test systems, each of which is ultimately used to test an application under development.  In this webinar, we will demonstrate:

- How to build and configure multiple test systems

- How to re-set a test environment back to an original configuration (for when things go wrong)

- How to create multiple Virtual Systems from a standard configuration / known base install

- Configuration and management of a test environment

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