Sergio Del Piccolo

K2 announced the release of the K2 blackpearl Migration Utility. This tool is used to transfer and manipulate data from existing K2.net 2003 databases to K2 blackpearl databases. It enables you to seamlessly start new and continue the execution of all currently running K2.net 2003 process instances on K2 blackpearl.

It requires the K2 blackpearl 0807 release with the KB000370 update, both of which are available on the K2 Customer Portal.

Prior to installing and migrating your data read the accompanying documentation as it is imperative that you evaluate your K2.net 2003 processes and test the migration in a non-production environment before attempting to migrate production servers.

• If you require K2.net 2003 archiving functionality, it is recommended that you do not migrate at this time
• If you make use of a user manager other than Active Director (ADUM), please contact support prior to starting the migration process, even in a test environment

K2, SourceCode, K2 blackpearl, K2.Net 2003

There’s a new BizTalk poster available for download from the Microsoft Download Center. It’s called the BizTalk Server 2009 Scale-out Configurations Poster and describes typical scenarios and commonly used options for scaling out BizTalk Server 2009 physical configurations and illustrates the following:

• Scaling out to achieve high availability through load balancing and fault tolerance
• Configuring for high-throughput scenarios

Other available BizTalk Server posters include:

1. BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Legacy Modernization with Host Integration Server 2006
2. BAM Poster for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2
3. BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Capabilities Poster 
4. BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Capabilities Poster – Interactive Web version
5. BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Database Infrastructure Poster
6. BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Runtime Architecture Poster
7. BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0/WCF LOB Adapter SDK Poster

Microsoft, BizTalk, BizTalk Server 2009, Microsoft Download Center