Key Summary I have split the key Summary into Essential the essential keys are key combinations you NEED to know and Nice to know. I have left the Win+arrows in the Windows 8 section, while the Windows 10 version is vastly better with snapping, essentially the functionality is the same. I will be posting later on …

I have spent a good deal of time over the last month or two building an Azure Resource Template to deploy a relatively complicated IaaS environment. In doing so I’ve hit a variety of problems along the way and I though that a number of blog posts were in order to share what I’ve learned. I will write a detailed post on …

After many months travelling and spending a lot of time planning, I have now got many posts backed up to send, I am currently touching up and posting my back log. so expect to see a flurry of posts over the next week or so b.

Documentation for using the customScriptExtension for Virtual Machines in Azure through Resource Templates is pretty much non-existent at time of writing, and the articles on using it through PowerShell are just plain wrong when it comes to templates. This post is accurate at time of writing and will show you how to …

I like web deploy as a means to package up websites for deployment. I like the way I only need to add 1/p:DeployOnBuild=True;PublishProfile=Release as an MSBuild argument to get the package produced as part of an automated build. This opening up loads of deployment options I recently hit an issue packaging up a …

A couple of months ago I wrote a post on using PowerShell scripts to deploy web sites in Release Management vNext templates as opposed to DSC. In that post I provided a script to help with the translation of Release Management configuration variables to entries in the [MSDELPOY].setparameters.xml file for web sites. …

I have just had a guest post published on the Microsoft UK developers site nUnit and Jasmine.JS unit tests in TFS/VSO vNext build

DDDNorth is on again this year, back in it’s more northern base of the Sunderland University on the 24th of October You can submit your session proposal in here

Background We upgraded our production TFS 2013.4 server to TFS 2015 RTM this week. As opposed to an in-place upgrade we chose to make a few change on the way; so whilst leaving our DBs on our SQL 2012 cluster We moved to a new VM for our AT (to upgrade from Windows 2008R2 to 2012R2) Split the SSRS instance off the AT …

In my last post I discussed how you could wire TCM tests into a Release Management vNext pipeline. The problem with the script I provided, as I noted, was that the deployment was triggered synchronously by the build i.e. the build/release process was: TFS Build Gets the source Compiled the code Run the unit tests …