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IIS Web App Deploy task fails with error code 2148734720

November 27, 2017 by abel 2 Comments

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…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: 2148734720, Deployment, error code, Error Code 2148734729, IaaS, IIS, IIS Web App Deploy, Release Management, TFS, vsts

Deploying DB’s in your CI/CD pipeline with EF Core Code First

July 31, 2017 by abel 23 Comments

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…]

Posted in: Code Tagged: Database Migrations, devops, ef, EFCore, Entity Framework, Entity Framework Core, migrations, Release Management, Team Services, Visual Studio Team Services, vsts

Build and Deploy SSIS packages using VSTS

October 6, 2016 by abel 11 Comments

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…]

Posted in: Code Tagged: Build, devops, Release, Release Management, SSIS, SSRS, vsts

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

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

Walkthrough: Using VSO and Release Management to build from a Git repository and deploy to an Azure Service

July 1, 2014 by abel Leave a Comment

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…]

Posted in: Code, Uncategorized Tagged: Azure Service, Deploy to Azure Service, Git, Release Management, Release Management update 2, TFS, TFS 2013 update 2, visual studio online, VSO

TFS 2013 Release Management Error user does not have access to the release management server

May 12, 2014 by abel Leave a Comment

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…]

Posted in: Code, Uncategorized Tagged: cryptic error message, Release Management, User does not have access

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