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I’m using Release Management with PowerShell scripts to deploy my app and it’s corrupting my configuration files

August 25, 2015 by abel Leave a Comment

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…]

Posted in: Code, Uncategorized Tagged: DSC, PowerShell, Release Management, TFS 2015

DSC–Importing module failed

June 6, 2015 by abel 1 Comment

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…]

Posted in: Code, Uncategorized Tagged: cannot be loaded. opted out, DSC, Import Module Failed, psm1

Playing With TFS 2015 RC and Release Management with DSC

June 2, 2015 by abel Leave a Comment

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…]

Posted in: Code, Uncategorized Tagged: DSC, Release Management, Team Build, TFS 2015

Running DSC gets WinRM error

May 31, 2015 by abel Leave a Comment

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…]

Posted in: Code, Uncategorized Tagged: DSC, Release Management, WinRM error

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