Steef-Jan Wiggers is IT architect/Consultant with almost 15 years of experience as a technical lead developer and application architect, specializing in custom applications, enterprise application integration (BizTalk), Web services and Windows Azure. He has experience in architecting, designing, developing, and supporting sophisticated and innovative software using many different Microsoft technologies and products. Steef-Jan is very active in BizTalk community as blogger, Wiki author/editor, forums, writer and public speaker. He has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award (2010) for his contributions to the world-wide BizTalk Server community. He has been re-awarded July 2011, July 2012 and July 2013. Steef-Jan has been elected MVP in 2011 and 2013 by his peers in BizTalk/Integration expertise and Microsoft.



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Blogs

Steef-Jan shares his knowledge around SOA, Azure AppFabric (ServiceBus) and BizTalk through:

• his personal: http://soa-thoughts.blogspot.com/
• BizTalk Administrators: http://www.biztalkadminsblogging.com/

TechNet Wiki

All Steef-Jan's Wiki articles he authored or co-authored: 

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/tags/Steef_2D00_Jan+Wiggers/default.aspx

Steef-Jan's MVP Profile:

https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Steef-Jan

Steef-Jan's MSDN Profile:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Profile/Steef-Jan%20Wiggers

WikiNinjas - Official Blog of TechNet Wiki

Steef-Jan has written the following blog posts:

• Wiki-Ninjas on Technology: BizTalk Server
• Wiki-Ninjas on Technology: Windows Azure- and Server AppFabric
• Wiki-Ninja’s on Technology: SQL Azure
• Featured Wiki Article:BizTalk Server 2010 Throttling
• Interview with a BizTalk MVP Wiki Ninja!!! - Sandro Pereira
• TechNet Wiki: BizTalk Server Administration
• TechNet Wiki: BizTalk Server Development
• TechNet Wiki: BizTalk Server Deployment
• Interview with a BizTalk Advisor Wiki Ninja!!! - Tord G. Nordahl
• TNWiki Article Spotlight - BizTalk Virtual Mapper VS Custom-XSLT
• TechNet Wiki: Microsoft Integration Stack
• Wiki-Ninjas on Technology: Windows Azure Service Bus EAI & EDI 
• Future TechNet Wiki articles: Windows Azure, Windows 8, Office 15 and Visual Studio 2012
• TNWiki Article Spotlight - BizTalk: List of Errors and Warnings, Causes and Solutions   
• Wiki-Ninjas on Technology: BizTalk Server Part 2 Update
• Wiki-Ninjas on Technology: SharePoint Server
• TNWiki Article Spotlight - Behaviour Driven Development with BizTalk
• Friday with International Community Update - Number of BizTalk community contributors increases
• Windows 8 - The new OS
• TNWiki Article Spotlight - BizTalk Server: Transform text files (Flat Files) into XML
• Shift from BizTalk to Integration from a Microsoft Integration MVP perspective
• TechNet WikiNinjas: TechNet Wiki Offline Promotion
• Interview with a Microsoft Integration MVP: Dan Rosanova
• Wiki Life: One year anniversary of a BizTalk TechNet Wiki Ninja
• Interview with a Microsoft Integration MVP: Michael Stephenson
• New BizTalk Beta Release - BizTalk 2013
• BizTalk community members meet during the BizTalk Summit 2012
• BizTalk and TechNet Wiki: The Year 2012 in retrospective
• BizTalk Server 2013: The new cloud related adapters
• Microsoft offers REST Support in BizTalk Server 2013
• TNWiki Article Spotlight - Windows Azure Service Bus Resources
• TNWiki, Community, and being an MVP: a marathon run!
• BizTalk Server 2013 is here!
• Interview with a Wiki Ninja: Mandi Ohlinger
• SQL Server and BizTalk Server
• TechNet Wiki Evangelism: How to enhance visibility in communities?
• TNWiki Article Spotlight - BizTalk Server: REST Services Error Handling
• Hybrid Solutions with BizTalk Server 2013, Windows Azure Service Bus and REST 
• BizTalk PaaS: BizTalk Services
• Integration is my business and business is good!
• Interview with a Wiki Ninja: Howard S. Edidin
  

Code Gallery

Steef-Jan has made the following contributions to code gallery:

• BizTalk Table Operations - Messaging
• BizTalk Server 2010 Adapter Pack: Call SQL Azure View
• BizTalk SalesForce Integration: Login authentication
• ExecuteReader, ExecuteNonQuery, ExecuteScalar Operation with BizTalk Messaging
• Polling SQL Azure Table - BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010
• BizTalk AppFabric Connect for Services: Expose SQL Server Database View 
• Sample - Table Operations on Oracle 11g XE with OracleDbBinding 
• WCF-SQL Adapter Stored Procedure : SQL Azure
• BizTalk Messaging Archive Custom Solution 
• Custom Configuration options for BizTalk Solution
• BizTalk Server - Determine Version and Edition
• Determine size of database and underlying tables
• Show assemblies for deployed orchestrations
• Show Receive Locations and/or Send Ports that are down
• Query for Failed/Successf​ul BizTalk Database Jobs
• BizTalk Server 2013: WCF-BasicHttpRelay Adapter Sample
• BizTalk Server 2013: WCF-NetTcpRelay Adapter Sample 
• BizTalk Server 2013: WCF-WebHttp Adapter Sample
• BizTalk Server 2013: Sign and verifying a message

Books and White Papers

Books

Author:

• BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook

Technical reviewer:

• BizTalk Server 2010 Patterns
• (MCTS): Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 (70-595) Certification Guide

White papers

Author:

• Supportability and operations of Microsoft BizTalk Server

Technical reviewer:

• Proactively keep an eye on health of your Microsoft BizTalk Server Environments
• Guidance for integration architecture on the Microsoft Business Platform
• BizTalk Monitoring Solutions
  

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: Nieuwegein (Netherland), Milan (Italy), Stavanger (Norway), London (UK) and Porto (Portugal).

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

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

You can follow Steef-Jan 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 

Other Contributions

Steef-Jan also contributed to the following projects:

• BizTalk Maturity Assessment 

Certifications

Steef-Jan has the following certifications:

• MCTS: Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006
• MCTS: Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2
• MCTS: Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010

Twitter

In Steef-Jan's Twitter account, @SteefJan, he tweets mostly about BizTalk Server, Windows Azure, and SQL Azure: http://twitter.com/#%21/steefjan
  

Contact

If you need to contact Steef-Jan contact him through email: SteefJan add msn dot com or link through LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/steefjan
 
 

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See Also

• WiKi: List of User Pages

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