Do you, Release Management, take this feature, Deployment Slots, to be your DevOps partner? 13 February 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Abstract When I first started reading about Deployment Slots I had more questions than answers. My most obvious concern was what ... [More]
So you want to move from agent based Release Management to vNext but still need Tokenization. 13 February 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) The xReleaseManagement resource brings Release Management Tokenization to Desired State Configuration. The xReleaseManagement resource enables a natural migration path from Agent Based Release Management deployments to DSC (or vNext) based deployments. This resource supports using the techniq... [More]
Using Microsoft Fakes to test code that sends email 13 February 2015 Donovan-Brown (0) In the past I used to use Neptune to test any code that sent email. Neptune is still very useful with Web Test but with unit testing I should be able to use Fakes. Below is a typical block of code that uses the SmtpClient class to send an email message. public static void SendMessage(string ... [More]
Toggle the Retain Indefinitely flag from Release Management 10 February 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Problem:We employ continuous delivery with Release Management and our drop server has run out of di [More]
Release Management Comparison Chart 09 February 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) This blog post is comparing the current features set of Microsoft’s hosted Release Management solution – Release Management Online (RMO) and the on premises Release Management product. Feature Comparison (as of February 2015) On Premises RMO az... [More]
I can’t use SqlPackage to deploy my dacpac to Azure Sql Database 08 February 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Problem: Each time I try to use a dacpac to deploy to my Azure Sql Database it times out with the following error: Publishing to database ''mydatabase_dev' on server 'mydatabase.database.windows.net'. Initializing deployment (Start) Initializing deployment (Failed) SqlPackage.exe : *** An error... [More]
How to set my default Azure Subscription 08 February 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) When using the Azure PowerShell module with multiple Azure Subscriptions it can be a challenge to keep track of which subscription you are using. Luckily there is a cmdlet that lets you set the current subscription and even identify a default for all future sessions. You will need the subscriptio... [More]
My DSC works from PowerShell ISE but not from Release Management 06 February 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) If you are like me you learned Desired State Configuration (DSC) before trying to incorporate it with Release Management. I recommend this because you get a pure understanding of DSC and its full capabilities. The only caveat to learning DSC this way is certain things are different when used ... [More]
My vNext Release fails with SSL error 05 February 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Problem: I am trying to deploy using Release Management vNext pipeline and I receive the following error: Connecting to remote server MyServer failed with the following error message : The server certificate on the destination computer (MyServer:5986) has the following errors: ... [More]
My Release Template changes are being ignored 04 February 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) I was recently asked for help with Release Management where the user noticed the changes to their Release Template were not taking effect. After further investigation I identified the confusion and felt it deserved further explanation. The user began a release which failed on a “Deploy Using ... [More]