The League was recently contacted by @samsmithnz who wanted some more real world examples on setting up a CI/CD pipeline into IaaS, IIS and SQL. Damian (@damovisa) asked me if I would be interested in recording a video about this when he swings through Redmond next week. Sure! Piece of cake! I have plenty of … [Read more…]
Within the last week, 3 different people have asked me how to deploy their database schemas in their CI/CD pipeline using Entity Framework Core Code First. I figured that’s a good sign to write a full blog post! When looking at DevOps best practices, my DB schema should be “checked in” to source control right … [Read more…]
A customer asked me if it was possible to build and deploy SSIS packages using VSTS. Without thinking, I answered, “Of course you can (I had no clue if you could or not but Any Language, Any Platform right?)! And Premier Developers (they had a Premier contract with Microsoft) can tell you exactly how to … [Read more…]
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 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…]
I was recently at a client where they had an azure cloud service project in a Git repository in Visual Studio Online (VSO). They asked me if they could use Team Build (TFS build) to build the solution and then have the build kick off a Release Management release template which would deploy the Azure … [Read more…]
I got an interesting error the other day at a client’s site. They installed Release Management Update 2013 update 2 RC. When they tried to open the release management client, they got the error: User xxxxxxxx does not have access to the release management server. Please contact your administrator. What was weird was the user … [Read more…]