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DDD is coming up fast: things you might want to know
Robert Hogg Apr 29, 2018 · 1 min read · DDD DDD ·
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DDD is winging its way to Reading in June, We already have some great sessions submitted but it would be great to get even more. If you have something to say we would love to hear it.
Also we are still looking for designer orientated sessions.
If you are a new speaker let us know and we are trying to get some speaker …

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Major new release of my VSTS Cross Platform Extension to build Release Notes
Richard Fennell Apr 27, 2018 · 1 min read · Release Management Release Management VSTS VSTS ·
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Today I have released a major new release, V2, of my VSTS Cross Platform Extension to build release notes. This new version is all down to the efforts of Greg Pakes who has completely re-written the task to use newer VSTS APIs.
A minor issue is that this re-write has introduced a couple of breaking changes, as detailed …

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Backing up your TFVC and Git Source from VSTS
Richard Fennell Apr 20, 2018 · 3 min read · VSTS VSTS ·
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The Issue
Azure is a highly resilient service, and VSTS has excellent SLAs. However, a question that is often asked is ‘How do I backup my VSTS instance?’. The simple answer is you don’t. Microsoft handle keeping the instance up, patched and serviceable. Hence, there is no built in means for you to get a local copy of …

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Opps, I made that test VSTS extension public by mistake, what do I do now?
Richard Fennell Apr 14, 2018 · 2 min read · Tech Tips VSTS VSTS ·
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I recently, whilst changing a CI/CD release pipeline, updated what was previously a private version of a VSTS extension in the VSTS Marketplace with a version of the VSIX package set to be public.
Note, in my CI/CD process I have a private and public version of each extension (set of tasks), the former is used for …

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Fix for 2755 and 1632 ‘The Temp folder is on a drive that is full or is inaccessible’ errors
Richard Fennell Mar 21, 2018 · 1 min read · Tech Tips ·
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Whilst trying to install an MSI package we kept getting the errors 2755 and 1632 ‘The Temp folder is on a drive that is full or is inaccessible’.
After much fiddling we found the problem was that the %systemroot%installer folder was missing. Once this was manually re-added the MSIs installed without a problem. The …

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Using VSTS Gates to help improve my deployment pipeline of VSTS Extensions to the Visual Studio Marketplace
Richard Fennell Mar 20, 2018 · 5 min read · Release Management Release Management Tech Tips VSTS VSTS ·
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My existing VSTS CI/CD process has a problem that the deployment of a VSTS extension, from the moment it is uploaded to when it’s tasks are available to a build agent, is not instantiation. The process can potentially take a few minutes to roll out. The problem this delay causes is a perfect candidate for using VSTS …
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Fixing a ‘git-lfs filter-process: gif-lfs: command not found’ error in Visual Studio 2017
Richard Fennell Mar 9, 2018 · 3 min read · Git Git Tech Tips ·
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I am currently looking at the best way to migrate a large legacy codebase from TFVC to Git. There are a number of ways I could do this, as I have posted about before. Obviously, I have ruled out anything that tries to migrate history as ‘that way hell lies’; if people need to see history they will be able to look at …
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DDD is now live for Session Submission!
Robert Hogg Mar 2, 2018 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I am delighted to announce the DDD site is now live for session submissions! Get in early to make sure you don't forget. Always a great opportunity to get in front of an enthusiastic crowd. Please do submit, and we would welcome first-timers. The audience is friendly, and so many speakers, that are now on the …
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Building private VSTS build agents using the Microsoft Packer based agent image creation model
Richard Fennell Feb 27, 2018 · 5 min read · DevOps DevOps Tech Tips VSTS VSTS ·
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Background
Having automated builds is essential to any good development process. Irrespective of the build engine in use, VSTS, Jenkins etc. you need to have a means to create the VMs that are running the builds.
You can of course do this by hand, but in many ways you are just extending the old ‘it works on my PC – the …

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Yorkshire Venue for the Global DevOps BootCamp 2018
Richard Fennell Feb 22, 2018 · 1 min read · DevOps DevOps ·
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I am really pleased that we at Black Marble are again the first UK location announcing that we are hosting an event on June 16th as part of the 2018 Global DevOps BootCamp. As the event’s site says…
“The Global DevOps Bootcamp takes place once a year on venues all over the world. The more people joining in, the better …

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