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Update: As of today Nov. 22, 2014, Azure BizTalk services are generally available and completely supported and backed by SLA. Recently Azure added a new service that is in the preview. BizTalk services is a new part of the Azure family. You can apply for the preview version and it will be available right from the Azure console. It took few seconds for my case to get approved so it should be fast for you as well. In any case if the full functionality of BizTalk is required, Different versions of BizTalk 2013 are available in the VM Gallery. ...

The followings are form [here] Honoring key web tenets – The Web favors stateless interactions which do not saddle either party of a data exchange with the responsibility to remember what the other did or expects. Doing otherwise is a recipe for extreme brittleness in implementations; it also raises considerably the development cost which reduces the reach of the standard itself.   Flexibility in its support of popular media formats and codecs as well as openness to future innovation– A successful standard cannot be tied to individual codecs, data formats or scenarios. They may soon be supplanted by newer versions that would make such a tightly coupled standard obsolete just as quickly. The right approach is instead to support multiple media formats and to bring the bulk of the logic to the application layer, enabling developers to innovate.

One of the best tools available in IIS 7+ to debug the applications and find out about the issues happening historically on the web server is FREB log files. FREB as it stands for Failed Request Event Buffering, is a handy tool for tracing the status of an application. It basically hooks up to an http status code and persist the tracing information in an xml file. While the xml file is not a small one, there is a very useful transformation file that renders the file in a readable html format (it only needs to be placed in the same path of xml file when it is being opened by your browser). ...

I am currently in Salamanca, Spain and besides how beautiful this city is, I had a talk about current status of Cloud interoperability. The presentation file is available here. Cloud Interoperability Cloud Interoperability from Amir Mohtasebi