So I’m using RM with powershell scripts to deploy a simple web app. One of my scripts was modifying the Web.config file with Out-File. Everything seemed to be working just fine except after the deployment, I got a 500 server error. The Web.config file looked perfectly fine, but after some excruciating analysis, I finally figured out … [Read more…]
I was trying to run a simple DSC where I create an app pool so I downloaded the xWebAdministration module, dumped it into C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules directory, set up my configuration, ran it and got this error: Importing module MSFT_xWebAppPool failed with error – File C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\xWebAdministration\DscResources\MSFT_xWebAppPool\MSFT_xWebAppPool.psm1 cannot be loaded because you opted not to run … [Read more…]
I have a standard demo that I created to demo the capabilities of Release Management using TFS 2013 update 4 and Release Management (using the workflow deployment). It’s a solution which contains a web app and a database project. TFS builds the solution (both web and database) and then RM picks up the bits from … [Read more…]
I tried running DSC on my server and got the error: The client cannot connect to the destination specified in the request. Verify that the service on the destination is runn8ing and is accepting request. Consult the logs and the documentation for the WS-Management service running on the destination, most commonly IIS or WinRM. If … [Read more…]