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Voting for DDD North Sessions is now open
Richard Fennell Sep 7, 2015 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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Voting for DDD North Sessions is now open - http://bit.ly/DDDNorth15Sessions
Vote on what you would like to see at this community conference
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WebDeploy, parameters.xml transforms and nLog settings
Richard Fennell Sep 1, 2015 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I have been trying to parameterise the SQL DB connection string used by nLog when it is defined in a web.config file of a web site being deployed via Release Management and WebDeploy i.e. I wanted to select and edit the bit highlighted of my web.config file
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Complex Azure Odyssey Part Four: WAP Server
Rik Hepworth Aug 30, 2015 · 10 min read · Azure Azure Resource Manager Azure Resource Manager Windows Azure ·
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Part One of this series covered the project itself and the overall template structure. Part Two went through how I deploy the Domain Controller in depth. Part Three talks about deploying my ADFS server and in this final part I will show you how to configure the WAP server that faces the outside world.
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Complex Azure Template Odyssey Part Three: ADFS Server
Rik Hepworth Aug 30, 2015 · 8 min read · Uncategorised ·
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Part One of this series covered the project itself and the overall template structure. Part Two went through how I deploy the Domain Controller in depth. This post will focus on the next server in the chain: The ADFS server that is required to enable authentication in the application which will eventually be installed …
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Complex Azure Template Odyssey Part Two: Domain Controller
Rik Hepworth Aug 30, 2015 · 20 min read · Azure Azure Resource Manager Azure Resource Manager Windows Azure ·
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In part one of this series of posts I talked about the project driving my creation of these Azure Resource Templates, the structure of the template and what resource I was deploying. This post will go through the deployment and configuration of the first VM which will become my domain controller and certificate server. …
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An alternative to setting a build quality on a TFS vNext build
Richard Fennell Aug 28, 2015 · 4 min read · Uncategorised ·
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TFS vNext builds do not have a concept of build quality unlike the old XAML based builds. This is an issue for us as we used the changing of the build quality as signal to test a build, or to mark it as released to a client (this was all managed with my TFS Alerts DSL to make sure suitable emails and build retention …
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Speaking at CloudBurst in September
Rik Hepworth Aug 23, 2015 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I’ve never been to Sweden, so I’m really looking forward to September, when I’ll be speaking at CloudBurst. Organised by the Swedish Azure User Group (SWAG – love it!), this conference is also streamed and recorded and the sessions will be available on Channel 9. The list of speakers and topics promise some …
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Complex Azure Template Odyssey Part One: The Environment
Rik Hepworth Aug 23, 2015 · 10 min read · Azure Azure Resource Manager Azure Resource Manager Windows Azure ·
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Part Two | Part Three | Part Four Over the past month or two I’ve been creating an Azure Resource Template to deploy and environment which, previously, we’d created old-style PowerShell scripts to deploy. In theory, the Resource Template approach would make the deployment quicker, easier to trigger from tooling like …
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Driving Windows 10 for Developers using the Keyboard
Robert Hogg Aug 23, 2015 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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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.
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An Introduction To Azure Resource Templates
Rik Hepworth Aug 23, 2015 · 10 min read · Uncategorised ·
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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 …
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