If you are planning to learn or already started learning Biztalk 2006, following two resources will be really helpful to you.
To get an overview on biztalk 2006, read this whitepaper first
Understanding Biztalk server 2006
and then start your journey with following guide,
Biztalk Blogger Guide
This guide has lots of information on advanced biztalk topics. It also has a section for begineers, where to start and various resourced for begineers. Thought this guide created during biztalk 2004 time frame, it has information on 2006 also.
I was searching for Synchronization tools for my laptop backup strategy . I came across following two useful sync tools,
1. FolderShare
This tool is recommended by everyone for synchronization, this is useful if you want to sync your files through internet. For example, if you want to Sync your files between home PC and your Office PC and both machine are always on internet. Then this tool will be really useful. I haven’t tried out this tool. This tool is brought by Windows Live service now and it is free.
2. SyncToys
This tool is little known tool. It’s a part of Windows XP power toys and its free utility provided by Microsoft. This tool can be used to sync files between your pc and any another pc on network and also between your pc and your external harddisk.
My case is to sync between laptop and my external harddisk, so I went with SyncToys as of now. But major drawback with this tool is, you cannot schedule it. However with the help of Windows scheduler and Synctoys command line option, I am able to schedule it. Major advantage of this tool is, it’s quite fast in syncing files. I have files in GBs, but still it is doing it very fast.
If you don’t have any backup strategy for your data in your PC, then it’s time for you to try out these tools now.
One of the important feature which is missing in VSTS Team Build is Continuous Integration support. Though there are lots of workaround to achieve this, there is no readymade solutions to implement this. But with TFS Integrator, you can implement continuous integration with few configuration settings. For more details, check out this blog
http://notgartner.wordpress.com/2006/09/18/getting-started-with-tfs-integrator/