Sandro Pereira lives in Portugal and he currently works as a BizTalk consultant at DevScope (www.devscope.net). In the last few years has been working implementing integration scenarios and Cloud Provisioning at a major telecommunications service provider in Portugal.

His main focus is on Integration Technologies where is been using .NET, BizTalk and SOAP/XML/XSLT since 2002 and Windows Azure. Sandro is very active in the BizTalk community as blogger (http://sandroaspbiztalkblog.wordpress.com/), member and moderator on the MSDN BizTalk Server Forums, TechNet Wiki author, Code Gallery and CodePlex contributor, member of BizTalk Brazil community (http://www.biztalkbrasil.com.br/), NetPonto community (http://netponto.org/), BiztalkAdminsBlogging community (http://www.biztalkadminsblogging.com), editor of the magazine “Programar” (http://www.revista-programar.info), public speaker and technical reviewer of "BizTalk 2010 Cookbook", Packt Publishing book.

He has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since January 2011 for his contributions to the world-wide BizTalk Server community and is a certified MCTS: BizTalk Server BizTalk Server 2006 and BizTalk Server 2010.



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Profiles

Sandro's MVP Profile:

https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/mvp/Sandro%20Pereira-4030655

Sandro's MSDN Profile:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/sandro%20pereira/

Blogs

Sandro shares his knowledge around BizTalk Server and the value of contributing in the community through:

• His personal blog: http://sandroaspbiztalkblog.wordpress.com
• BizTalk Administrators: http://www.biztalkadminsblogging.com
• BizTalk Brasil: http://www.biztalkbrasil.com.br/

Community Member

Besides publishing in blogs, Sandro is also member of the following communities where he shares his knowledge through speaking engagements or articles on BizTalk Server:

• NetPonto community: http://netponto.org/membro/sandro-pereira/
• Magazine “Programar”: http://revista-programar.info/?action=members&type=viewMember&n=115

BizTalk Innovation Day

BizTalk Innovation Day is a one-day event focused purely on Microsoft BizTalk Server related topics that has been conducted in several major European cities since Feb 2011: Amsterdam (Netherland), Milan (Italy), Stavanger (Norway), London (UK) and Porto (Portugal).

Sandro is member of BizTalk Crew that are responsible to organize this events along with MVP's: Steef-Jan Wiggers, Tord Glad Nordahl, Saravana Kumar and Nino Crudele.

You can follow BizTalk Innovation Day through its Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/BizTalkInnovationDay

TechNet Wiki

Sandro is the author of the following English contributions on the TechNet Wiki:

• Installing BizTalk Server 2010 in a Basic Multi-Computer Environment
• BizTalk: List of Errors and Warnings, Causes and Solutions
• BizTalk Server: List of Macros
• BizTalk Server: Basics principles of Maps
• BizTalk: Blogroll
• BizTalk Server: How Maps Work
• BizTalk Server: List of Custom Adapters
• BizTalk Server: List of Third-Party Adapters
• BizTalk Server: Transform text files (Flat Files) into XML
• Microsoft BizTalk Server seen by the programmer’s eyes
• BizTalk Server: BizTalk Mapper Patterns
• Installing and configuring BizTalk Server 2010 in a Standalone machine
• Training Resources for BizTalk Developer
• Training Resources for BizTalk Administrators
• BizTalk Server: Redistributable CAB Files
• BizTalk Server: Presentations Gallery
• Windows Azure BizTalk Services resources on the TechNet Wiki
• Windows Azure BizTalk Services: Webcasts and Videos
• Windows Azure BizTalk Services: Code Gallery Samples

Sandro is the author of the following Portuguese contributions on the TechNet Wiki:

• Guia de Sobrevivência: BizTalk Server 2010
• Exemplos de BizTalk Server disponíveis no Code Gallery
• BizTalk Server - Como funcionam os mapas
• BizTalk Server - Princípios básicos dos Mapas
• Microsoft BizTalk Server aos olhos dos programadores
• BizTalk Server: Livros
• BizTalk Server - Transformar arquivos de texto (Flat Files) em XML

All Sandro's Wiki articles he authored or co-authored: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/tags/Sandro+Pereira/default.aspx

WikiNinjas - Official Blog of TechNet Wiki

Sandro has written the following blog posts:
(comming soon)

Code Gallery

Sandro has made the following contributions to code gallery:

• BizTalk Mapper Extensions UtilityPack for BizTalk Server 2010
• How to Call Orchestrations developed in a different Visual Studio Solution
• BizTalk Server – Transform text files (Flat Files) into XML
• Calling an external assembly from Custom XSLT in BizTalk Server 2010 Maps
• BizTalk MapperExtensions Functoid Wizard
• Using EDI Bridge to exchange B2B messages in Windows Azure Service Bus
• EAI Bridge Message Sender and Queue Message Receive
• Handling Exceptions inside BizTalk Orchestrations
• Call Orchestration from another project or from another BizTalk Application
• BizTalk Mapper Patterns: How to Map Hierarchical Schema to a Name Value Pair
• Understanding Content Based Routing in EAI Bridges
• BizTalk: Accessing and change message values inside orchestration
• BizTalk Mapping - Selecting distinct nodes (grouping)
• Using EAI Bridges and LOB Target to connect to on-premises SQL Server
• BizTalk Mapper Patterns: How to Map Name Value Pair to a Hierarchical Schema
• Multi-Part Message Attachments Zipper Pipeline Component for BizTalk 2006/2009
• BizTalk Server – Basics principles of Maps
• How to implement multi-level Muenchian grouping in BizTalk Maps
• How to map values from a repeating node into a single node using conditions
• Grouping elements from different messages in BizTalk Maps
• Muenchian Grouping and Sorting in BizTalk Maps without losing Map functionalities
• BizTalk Multi-part Message Attachments Zipper Pipeline Component
• BizTalk Mapper Extensions UtilityPack for BizTalk Server 2006
• Customize filename dynamically inside BizTalk Orchestration

TechNet Gallery

Sandro has made the following contributions to TechNet gallery:

• Collection of Visio 2010 Stencil for BizTalk Server
• Collection of Visio 2013 Stencil for BizTalk Server
• Monitoring disk spaces in your BizTalk environment with PowerShell
• How to set SQL Server Network Protocols in the SQL Server for BTS Databases
• Monitoring SQL Agent Jobs in your BizTalk environment with PowerShell
• BizTalk Mapper: Custom Extension XML property fix with PowerShell (BizTalk 2010)
• Determining the process ID of BizTalk Host Instances
• Pre-allocate space and define auto-growth settings for BizTalk Server databases
• XML-RPC Schema
• Obtain a list of “BizTalk Software Inventory” installed with PowerShell
• BizTalk Server 2013 logo in vector format
• BizTalk Server 2010 logo in vector format
• Item Template for Visual Studio 2010: Custom BizTalk Functoid
• Configure BizTalk Services to start automatically after a system restart
• Query for list all users with access to BAM Primary Import database
• Query for list all users with access to specify BAM View

Books and White Papers

Sandro was technical reviewer of the following books:

• BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook

Sandro was technical reviewer of the following white papers:

• Proactively keep an eye on health of your Microsoft BizTalk Server Environments
• How to Properly Administer and Operate a BizTalk Server Infrastructure
• Supportability and operations of Microsoft BizTalk Server

Events

You can follow Sandro in the upcoming events:

• Bouvet BizTalk Innovation Day 2013 | September 25 and 26, 2013 – Stavanger, Norway
• BizTalk Innovation Day 2013 Italy | October 17, 2013 – Milan, Italy

Certifications

Sandro has the following certification:

• MCTS: Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006
• MCTS: Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010

Twitter

You can find Sandro Pereira on twitter with the name @sandro_asp as he tweets mostly about BizTalk Server:
https://twitter.com/sandro_asp

Contact

If you need to contact Sandro Pereira contact him through email: sandro-pereira@live.com.pt, link through LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sandropereira or feel free to leave a comment to a post on this blog.