its ok, but I'd rather spend time online
You'll get much better luck and practice with the online free material than this book
SSDD - Much like it's predecessor (Site Server)
Like Site Server - you won't find a ton of material that is actually useful about this technology.
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as well as other online resources.
Sorry, guy. We want to give you a big pat on the back, but that's kind of improbable under the current book conditions. This has been a current problem since back in the day when Site Server first pushed into the marketplace (if you will recall that mess, and that BizTalk's features used to be part of the pipeline configurator mechanism for extending SS-EC to full EC-functionality).
Give it another try. Still, something is better than nothing, but in terms of spending personal money, I'll pass.
The Only Book Availalbe for BizTalk 2004
I understand the frastrations of the other reviewers towards this book. BizTalk 2004 is quite different from the earlier versions. BizTalk 2004 is not well documented and there is no other reference book available. Many of us waited anxiously for the arrival of this book and hoped it would biring us extensive and in-depth coverage beyond what was available online, in particular since one of the authors is Scott Woodgate, the product manager of BizTalk, wellknown in BizTalk community.
To be fair, I believe this book desearves more than the current 2-star rating of average customer review. The authors promised "complete coverage" and they did a reasonable job to cover this product. If you are new to BizTalk, you have not choice. You should read this book since it is an authorative introduction.
Scott, I give you 4-star rating to encourage you to provide more in-depth material online at your blog site or in another book.
shoddy and replete with errors of ommission and commission
The least the authors can do is review their own work and provide their readers with an errata or a list of corrections for the numerous errors in the book.
I would love to get my money back. Reselling it in the used-book market would be a disservice to the buyers.
Not good enough, Microsoft!
With so many errors, I wonder if the authors have even bothered to read through the book after writing it.
They even change the project and solution names during some of the examples.
Maybe that's not a big deal after all, but it's very annoying.
