Notes on Azure Integration Services, Logic Apps, API Management and BizTalk Server by Rob Bowman.https://biztalkers.com/en-gb© 2026 BizTalkershttps://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/monitoring-logic-app-workflow-status/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/monitoring-logic-app-workflow-status/When managing Azure Logic Apps Standard instances with multiple workflows, it's often necessary to check which workflows have active running instances.Tue, 13 Jan 2026 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/devops/zipdeploy-vs-run-frompackage/https://biztalkers.com/blog/devops/zipdeploy-vs-run-frompackage/Clearing up the confusion between deploymentMethod and WEBSITE_RUN_FROM_PACKAGE when deploying Logic App Standard workflows.Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:00:00 GMTDevOpsinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/bicep/accessing-key-vault-from-bicep/https://biztalkers.com/blog/bicep/accessing-key-vault-from-bicep/Understanding the two requirements for reading Key Vault secrets during Bicep deployments: enabledForTemplateDeployment AND deployment service principal permissions.Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:00:00 GMTBicepDevOpsinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/wcf/securing-wcf-from-azure/https://biztalkers.com/blog/wcf/securing-wcf-from-azure/Securing an on-prem WCF service for calls from an Azure Function app: one endpoint that demands HTTPS and authenticates a specific Windows service account.Sat, 30 Aug 2025 09:00:00 GMTWCFinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/devops/devops-error/https://biztalkers.com/blog/devops/devops-error/The content for this response was already consumed caused by missing parameter.Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:00:00 GMTDevOpsinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/logic-apps/la-on-prem-files/https://biztalkers.com/blog/logic-apps/la-on-prem-files/Connecting to on‑prem SMB shares from Logic App Standard using the built‑in File System connector with VNET integration. Simpler config, no on‑prem data gateway.Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:00:00 GMTLogic Appsinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/apim/integrate-conference/https://biztalkers.com/blog/apim/integrate-conference/A summary of the key takeaways from the Integrate 2025 conference, focusing on API Management, integration patterns, and the future of cloud-based services.Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:00:00 GMTAPIMinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/apim/apim-transform-soap-to-rest/https://biztalkers.com/blog/apim/apim-transform-soap-to-rest/How Azure API Management can give legacy SOAP clients new life by translating their XML envelopes into JSON REST requests — without touching client or backend.Thu, 22 May 2025 09:00:00 GMTAPIMinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/rest/testing-soap-apis/https://biztalkers.com/blog/rest/testing-soap-apis/SOAP web services, though traditionally viewed as complex and specialized, can actually be effectively tested using common REST testing tools like curl or…Fri, 28 Mar 2025 09:00:00 GMTRESTinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/deploying-products-to-apim/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/deploying-products-to-apim/My standard method of deploying into Azure is to run a Bicep template from a DevOps pipeline.Wed, 25 Dec 2024 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/la-process-manager/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/la-process-manager/The Process Manager is an Enterprise Integration Pattern to maintain the state of sequence and determine the next processing step based on intermediate results.Sat, 23 Nov 2024 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/tracing-calls-to-apim/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/tracing-calls-to-apim/Previously, my first step on a journey to troubleshoot Azure API Management would be to enable tracing on the target APIM subscription and setting…Tue, 19 Nov 2024 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/logic-apps-error-in-determining-project-root/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/logic-apps-error-in-determining-project-root/Logic app standard workflows can be developed either within the Azure Portal or from an extension to Visual Studio Code.Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/business-rules-in-logic-apps/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/business-rules-in-logic-apps/Microsoft recently announced the ability to execute BizTalk's business rules in Logic Apps Standard applications.Wed, 31 Jul 2024 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/powershell-to-svc-bus/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/powershell-to-svc-bus/The Azure Portal include a service bus explorer tool. This can be used to publish a message to a queue or a topic. However, this is a little limited.Mon, 22 Apr 2024 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/log-apim-request-to-blob/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/log-apim-request-to-blob/When interacting with 3rd party APIs, it's common to hit an issue in which being able to check the payload of the posted message is critical.Wed, 17 Apr 2024 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/no-code-reference-data-service-with-cosmos-and-apim/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/no-code-reference-data-service-with-cosmos-and-apim/For many integration solutions, it's often necessary to maintain a list of reference data.Sun, 24 Dec 2023 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/cosmos-table-api/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/cosmos-table-api/I recently worked on an Azure Function App that was using Table Storage to persist data.Sun, 17 Dec 2023 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/az-func-run-from-zip/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/az-func-run-from-zip/Over the years there have been multiple ways to host Azure Functions. My current preference is to host on a linux app service plan.Sun, 15 Oct 2023 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/devops-az-sql-contained-users/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/devops-az-sql-contained-users/I have an Azure Function app called sms-router that uses an Azure Sql Database. This means it needs permission onto the database.Wed, 06 Sep 2023 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/vmss-hosted-devops-agent/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/vmss-hosted-devops-agent/The only time I'd previously had to veer from using Microsoft's hosted build agent was for building "unusual" things like BizTalk.Thu, 03 Aug 2023 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/function-app-host-keys-missing/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/function-app-host-keys-missing/I ran into a problem with deployment of a function app a couple of weeks ago. I thought I'd share the solution here in case anyone else runs into…Mon, 03 Jul 2023 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/tuning-function-app-settings/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/tuning-function-app-settings/I would admit to being guilty of accepting some default function app settings without really considering what they're for.Fri, 16 Jun 2023 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/whats-my-ip/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/whats-my-ip/I recently created an Azure Function app that's triggered by an Http request. It then calls out to a 3rd party api but before doing so, it must…Tue, 13 Jun 2023 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/az-func-custom-health-check/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/az-func-custom-health-check/Azure function apps give the options to enable health checks. An overview and description of benefits of these can be found here.Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/publish-to-svcbus-with-managed-identity/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/publish-to-svcbus-with-managed-identity/I ran into a problem with the service bus binding for Azure functions this week.Fri, 26 May 2023 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/bicep-four-resource-outside-group/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/bicep-four-resource-outside-group/The way this is achieved is a little strange and although I've implemented several times, I always forget!Fri, 21 Apr 2023 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/apim-oauth2-devops/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/apim-oauth2-devops/I recently faced the task of automating deployment of an api into Azure API Management that would require clients to authenticate via Azure Active Directory .Mon, 27 Feb 2023 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/logic-apps-in-asev3/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/logic-apps-in-asev3/Replacing the on-prem data gateway with the built-in File System connector for Logic Apps, cutting per-execution connector costs and a Windows server to maintain.Thu, 05 Jan 2023 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/azurewebjobs-config-value/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/azurewebjobs-config-value/I created a new azure function app today, which I deployed to a dev azure subscription through a devops pipeline.Fri, 23 Dec 2022 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/auto-publishing-azure-functions-into-apim/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/auto-publishing-azure-functions-into-apim/I'd like to start by saying I was able to find answers to several problem in an excellent blog post from Justin Yoo.Tue, 13 Dec 2022 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/service-endpoints/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/service-endpoints/Diagnosing “Endpoint status: Disabled” on an Azure App Service access restriction, and enabling the service endpoint on the source subnet to fix it.Wed, 08 Dec 2021 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/devops/ef-migrations-devops/https://biztalkers.com/blog/devops/ef-migrations-devops/Entity Framework migrations have been around for a long time, so I won't go into detail on what they're for, other than to say solve a…Wed, 03 Nov 2021 09:00:00 GMTDevOpsinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/az-service-endpoints/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/az-service-endpoints/Why an App Service access restriction shows “Endpoint status: Disabled” — the source subnet needs a service endpoint enabled for outbound traffic.Thu, 14 Oct 2021 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/log-missing/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/log-missing/I created a new Durable Functions project recently and noticed my logs weren't appearing in the console window when running from Visual Studio.Wed, 19 May 2021 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/rabbitmq/rabbit-arg/https://biztalkers.com/blog/rabbitmq/rabbit-arg/I have an Azure function that's making use of the new(ish) RabbitMQ binding to collect messages.Sat, 18 Apr 2020 09:00:00 GMTRabbitMQinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/biztalk-sftp/https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/biztalk-sftp/I recently worked on a project that required BizTalk to collect files from a 3rd party's server using the SFTP adapter.Mon, 01 Jul 2019 09:00:00 GMTBizTalkinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/biztalk-fiddler/https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/biztalk-fiddler/I've been having fun integrating BizTalk with an external rest style api this week.Sat, 26 Jan 2019 09:00:00 GMTBizTalkinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/azure-biztalk-on-prem/https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/azure-biztalk-on-prem/I've been working on a project that has a .Net Core MVC front end deployed as an Azure Web App.Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:00:00 GMTBizTalkinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/biztalk-sp/https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/biztalk-sp/Earlier this week, I had to call a stored procedure from a simple BizTalk 2016 applicaition.Sun, 21 Jan 2018 09:00:00 GMTBizTalkinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/biztalk-ha/https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/biztalk-ha/I was recently faced with creating a new on-prem production environment for BizTalk 2016.Wed, 17 Jan 2018 09:00:00 GMTBizTalkinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/btdf/btdf-websites/https://biztalkers.com/blog/btdf/btdf-websites/Tom Abraham recently published v5.7 of the BTDF to Codeplex and Github. The main win of this release is full support for BizTalk 2016.Thu, 21 Sep 2017 09:00:00 GMTBTDFinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/orchestration-paramters/https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/orchestration-paramters/I hit a problem with BTS2013r2 orchestration that I don't remember coming across previously.Tue, 19 Sep 2017 09:00:00 GMTBizTalkinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/powershell/mp3/https://biztalkers.com/blog/powershell/mp3/I recently replaced my Mk7 Golf (Apple CarPlay included) with a Volvo V40. There's a lot to like about the Volvo, but the only Podcast app available…Sun, 10 Sep 2017 09:00:00 GMTPowerShellinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/sp-list/https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/sp-list/I have a BizTalk 2013r2 solution from which I needed to send to a SharePoint 2010 list.Tue, 18 Jul 2017 09:00:00 GMTBizTalkinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/iis-receive/https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/iis-receive/I built a new solution today that used the BizTalk deployment framework to deploy everything - including a WCF service into IIS.Thu, 01 Jun 2017 09:00:00 GMTBizTalkinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/function-build/https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/function-build/I'm hoping I've overlooked something here but I've hit a problem, for which I can't find a happy work-around.Wed, 15 Feb 2017 09:00:00 GMTBizTalkinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/delivery-notificaton/https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/delivery-notificaton/I ran into an interesting problem last week. Sends to a third-party via the FTP adapter were failing.Thu, 12 Jan 2017 09:00:00 GMTBizTalkinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/long-description/https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/long-description/Fixing the ESB Exception Toolkit error “The property Description has a value with length greater than 256 characters” after a failed web service call.Mon, 08 Aug 2016 09:00:00 GMTBizTalkinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/biztalk-tradeshift/https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/biztalk-tradeshift/Tradeshift is as cloud based service to enable companies to exchange business documents such as purchase orders and invoices more easily.Sat, 18 Jun 2016 09:00:00 GMTBizTalkinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/btdf/btdf-local-bindings/https://biztalkers.com/blog/btdf/btdf-local-bindings/For new BizTalk solutions I use the BizTalk Deployment Framework (BTDF). In the early stages of development, I find that I run through the following…Sat, 28 May 2016 09:00:00 GMTBTDFinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/biztalk-naming-conventions/https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/biztalk-naming-conventions/Naming of BizTalk stuff is no different than for any programming language. It's helpful if multiple developers on the same project use consistent terms.Tue, 17 May 2016 09:00:00 GMTBizTalkinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/biztalk-smoke-test/https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/biztalk-smoke-test/After building a new BizTalk environment it can be helpful to run a few simple tests to check all is good.Wed, 30 Dec 2015 09:00:00 GMTBizTalkinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/biztalk-alm/https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/biztalk-alm/Although VSO offers a cloud-hosted build service, this does not support builds of BizTalk solutions.Sun, 18 Oct 2015 09:00:00 GMTBizTalkinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/btdf/btdf-gotcha/https://biztalkers.com/blog/btdf/btdf-gotcha/Everyone knows that the BizTalk Deployment Framework is the best thing since sliced bread but BizTalk deployment is a complex thing and I still run…Tue, 06 Oct 2015 09:00:00 GMTBTDFinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/zero-to-cloud/https://biztalkers.com/blog/azure/zero-to-cloud/I have dabbled with Azure over the past few years now but this has been mainly as a host to a simple websites with a sql db layer.Mon, 10 Aug 2015 09:00:00 GMTAzureinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/datetime-into-oracle/https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/datetime-into-oracle/I have an orchestration that received a data file and inserted contents into an Oracle database as part of its processing.Fri, 31 Jul 2015 09:00:00 GMTBizTalkinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/happy-tpe/https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/happy-tpe/I'm a big believer in BizTalk's Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) functionality, in fact I can't think of any "real" BizTalk.Sat, 18 Jul 2015 09:00:00 GMTBizTalkinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/happy-biztalk/https://biztalkers.com/blog/biztalk/happy-biztalk/Have you ever felt the need to check all BizTalk ports and hosts instances are running before you leave work each day?Fri, 17 Jul 2015 09:00:00 GMTBizTalkinfo@biztalkers.com (Rob Bowman)