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]
Never forget -Verbose again 28 November 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Working with DSC I am constantly having to type –Verbose on my Start-DscConfiguration calls. However, I stumbled across this cool feature of PowerShell that I thought I would share that will set the –Verbose switch on all your calls for you. PowerShell has a collection of Preferen... [More]
PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) Journey by Jacob Benson 28 November 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) I just wanted a list of all the post in one place. PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) Journey by Jacob Benson: Day 1 (First Configuration) Day 2 (Parameterizing the Configuration) Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day 10 Day 11 Day 12 Day 13 Day 14 ... [More]
How to use VSO and RMO to deploy an Azure Website 21 November 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) This is a neat post because we are going to be using all three Azure offerings SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.& [More]
How to deploy the Fabriakam Call Center application with DSC 20 November 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Because there is not an Update 4 version of the Keller VM using the Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 Keller VM I will show you how to upgrade Release Management to Update 4 and create a vNext deployment for the Fabriakam Call Center application. First we have to uninstall Release Management Update 3. Lo... [More]
Trigger a vNext Release from team build 18 November 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Using Release Management you can implement true Continuous Delivery. With the latest update of Release Management you can trigger a release via a REST api call to Release Management. In this post I will share the script and build definition I used to trigger the release and how to use th... [More]
How to run Microsoft Test Manager Suite in vNext Deployment 18 November 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) While preparing to speak at TechEd Europe I really had to run Release Management and Desired State Configuration (DSC) through their paces. I already blogged about one of my challenges of implementing tokenization in a DSC based deployment here. I also wanted to run Coded UI tests as part of ... [More]
Open new tab in PowerShell ISE without using the mouse 11 October 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Often while using PowerShell ISE I find the need to open additional files, however, I hate using the mouse. There is a nice command you can use to quickly open a new tab in the current instance of PowerShell ISE. Simply type ‘ise’ followed by the path to the file to open.