- 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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Rik Hepworth Aug 30, 2015 · 20 min read · Azure Azure Resource Manager Azure Resource Manager Windows Azure ·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. …
Read More- 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 …
Read More - 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 …
Read More 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 ·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 …
Read MoreKey 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 …
Read More- 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 …
Read More 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
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Read More- 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 …
Read More 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=Releaseas 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 …
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