There is a general move in Azure DevOps Pipelines to using YAML, as opposed to the designer, to define your pipelines. This is particularly enforced when using them via the new GitHub Marketplace Azure Pipelines method where YAML appears to be the only option.
This has shown up a hole in my Pipeline Tasks documentation …
Read MoreAzure DevOps has had some serious issue over the past couple of weeks with availability here in Europe.
A really good open and detailed root cause analysis has just been posted by the Azure DevOps team at Microsoft. It also covers the mitigations they are putting place to make sure this same issues do not occur again. …
Read MoreWhen I started creating OSS extensions for Azure DevOps Pipelines (starting on TFSPreview, then VSO, then VSTS and now named Azure DevOps) I made the mistake of putting all my extensions in a single GitHub repo. I thought this would make life easier, I was wrong, it should have been a repo per extension.
I have …
Read MoreRegistration for the new season of Black Marble events have just been opened. If you can make it to Yorkshire why not come to an event (or two)
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Read MoreMicrosoft Azure Stack is a truly unique beast in terms of the capabilities it can bring to an organisation, and the efficiencies it can bring to a project that spans Public Cloud and on-premises infrastructure through it’s consistency with public Azure.
We’ve been using Stack in anger for a customer project for a year …
Read MoreWhilst I was off work last week TFS 2018 Update 3 was released. As stated in the 2018.3 release notes this is the final bug fix update release of TFS 2018.
The next major release of TFS will not be named TFS 2019 as you might have expected, but will use the new name of Azure DevOps Server. You can see the features …
Read More- The Azure DevOps (VSTS) team have published the promised postmortem on the outage on the 4th of September. It gives good detail on what actually happened to the South Central Azure Datacenter and how it effected VSTS (as it was then called). More interestingly it provides a discussion of mitigations they plan to put in …
Read More - Today Microsoft made a big announcement, VSTS is now Azure DevOps. The big change is they have split VSTS into 5 services you can use together or independently, including Azure Pipelines for CI/CD - free for open source and available in the GitHub CI marketplace. An important thing to note is that IT IS NOT JUST FOR …
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The documentation for the VSTS WIKI suggests you can embed a video in a VSTS WIKI using the markdown/HTML```
Problem is that this does not seem to work, the MP4 just does not appear, you get an empty video player. However, if you swap to a full URL it does work e.g.1 2### The Workaround 3 4The …
Read MoreConfigure Server 2016 ADFS and WAP with custom ports using Powershell
Rik Hepworth Aug 24, 2018 · 2 min read · Desired State Configuration DSC Powershell Winows Server 2016 ·A pull request for Chris Gardner's WebApplicationProxyDSC is now inbound after a frustrating week of trying to automate the configuration of ADFS and WAP on a Server 2016 lab. With Server 2016, the PowerShell commands to configure the ADFS and WAP servers include switches to specify a non-default port. I need to do …
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