Thank you for registering for Tech·Ed 2005! I am a track owner for the
Connected Systems Infrastructure track for Tech Ed 2005, and my job is to
ensure that we provide you with the content you need at Tech Ed to do your
job efficiently and successfully.

Tech Ed is an event that the BizTalk team holds near and dear to our heart.
It is the premier event of the year where we get hear your feedback on our
technologies and share with you all the exciting new things we have planed
for you down the road. We've invested a great deal of time and energy in
Tech Ed 2005 in particular as we are debuting BizTalk 2006 and the product
team simply can't wait to share with you all the great work we've done in
this release.

BizTalk Server 2006 Enhancement Sneak Preview

BizTalk 2006 will provide support for the concept of an "application" so you
can easily manage all artifacts relating to one application, whether that be
starting/stopping the application or packagaking and deploying the solution
from one environment to another. We also added a Group Hub page that allows
the IT operator to gauge the health of the entire BizTalk group in one
consolidate page. For real time Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), BizTalk
2006 will provide you a portal for easy viewing of BAM data and support for
business activity subscription, alerts and notifications. In the runtime
engine, we now support in order message processing, non-atomic interchange,
error handling orchestration for automatic error processing, and a slew of
new adapters including the POP3 adapter, WSE 2.0 adapter and SPS adapter.

Here is the list of break out sessions we have in store for you on BizTalk:

      Code
     Speaker
     Title

      CSI313
     Steve Resnick
     Integrating SharePoint Portal Server with BizTalk Server

      CSI303
     Aaron Skonnard
     Expanding Your .NET Development Portfolio with BizTalk Server

      CSI304
     Jeff Wierer
     What's New in BizTalk Server 2006 Runtime

      CSI242
     Scott Woodgate
     Microsoft Integration Technologies: When to Use What

      CSI307
     Jurgen Willis
     Implementing a Rules Engine Solution Using BizTalk Server

      CSI305
     John Ballard

      Zach Jason
     BizTalk Server 2006 Business Activity Monitoring

      CSI301
     Yumay Chang Scott Cairney
     Advanced Service Orientation in BizTalk

      CSI314
     Mike Woods

      Jon Flanders
     Implementation of Common Integration Patterns with BizTalk Server

      CSI310
     Wayne Clark
     BizTalk Server Capacity Planning

      CSI315
     Erik Leaseburg
     Advance Orchestration Design Using BizTalk Server

      CSI306
     Eddie Fusaro
     Deploying and Managing BizTalk Server 2006 Solutions

      CSI233
     Alex Cobb

      Wayne Citrin
     Strategies and Tactics for Interoperability Using BizTalk Server

      CSI312
     Kris Shankar
     Monitoring and Troubleshooting BizTalk Server 2006 Solutions

      CSI308
     Scott Woodgate
     Integration Points of Microsoft Business Solutions with BizTalk Server

      CSI316
     Wayne Clark
     BizTalk Server Security Revealed

      CSI309
     Lee Graber
     Building and Maintaining a Performant and Healthy BizTalk Solution

And here is the list of instructor led labs we have in store for you on
BizTalk:

      Lab Title
     Speaker
     Company

      How to Enable Business Activity Monitoring
     Zach Jason John Ballard
     Microsoft

      Utilize the Power of Untyped Messages in Inside an Orchestrations
Using BizTalk Server 2004
     Stephen W. Thomas
     Kendall Technologies, Inc

      Message Debatching Options in BizTalk Server 2004
     Stephen W. Thomas
     Kendall Technologies, Inc

      Convoy Deep Dive Sample Walkthrough Using BizTalk Server 2004
     Stephen W. Thomas
     Kendall Technologies, Inc

      Building Solutions with the Microsoft Business Rules Engine
     Matt Milner
     M3 Technology Partners

      Enabling subscription for orchestration using direct ports
     Scott Cairney Winson Woo
     Cactus Commerce

      Using Infopath SP1 and Sharepoint 2003 to Design an Effective Tracking
System for BizTalk Server 2004
     Stephen W. Thomas
     Kendall Technologies, Inc

We would appreciate it greatly if you can take a few minutes to complete the
Tech·Ed 2005 Session Preference Survey to let us know what sessions you are
interested in attending. Your response will help the Tech Ed team decide
what content to cut and what content to keep and also determine room to
session allocation.

To complete this simple survey:
1) Go to http://www.msteched.com/survey.
    a. Enter your user name
    b. Enter your password. You created this password during event
registration.
2) Indicate the top Breakout Sessions and Instructor-Led Labs that you would
like to attend on-site.

You can also help shape your BPI Tech·Ed 2005 experience by suggesting Birds
of a Feather Sessions. These are free-flowing forums moderated by
independent third parties, where you can meet people who share your
interests, compare notes, and kick around solutions. For details on how to
suggest or vote on BPI topics, visit Scott Woodgate's blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/scottwoo/archive/2005/03/18/398769.aspx

Thank you in advance for taking the time to provide us with this valuable
feedback.

Sincerely,

Yumay Chang

Technical Product Manager, BPI Division, Microsoft Corp.