Twice recently I have hit the problem that I needed to a unblock ZIP files downloaded from a VSO source repository before I extracted the contents. One was a DSC modules, the other a PowerShell script with associated .NET assemblies.
In both cases the error messages I got were confusing and misleading. In the case of …
Read More- If you are trying to use Release Management or any deployment tool with a network isolated Lab Management setup you will have authentication issues. Your isolated domain is not part of your production domain, so you have to provide credentials. In the past this meant Shadow Accounts or the simple expedient of running …
Read More The DCS two step
When working with DSC a difficult concept can be that your desired state script is ‘compiled’ to a MOF file that is then ‘run’ by the desired state manager on the target machine. This is a two step affair and you have no real input on the second part. This is made more complex when Release Management …
Read MoreDon’t worry, Nokia are not planning to revive 70s nostalgia aftershave, Denim is the new update for Lumia's providing better low level support of the hardware.
Denim offers several key updates
Camera – for the 830/930/1520 updates specifically for HDR, Dynamic flash and 4k video and speed fixes for the 1520. as a user …
Read MoreWhilst helping a Java based team (part of larger organisation that used many sets of both Microsoft and non-Microsoft tools) to migrate from Subversion to TFS I had to tackle their Jenkins/Ant based builds.
They could have stayed on Jenkins and switched to the TFS source provider, but they wanted to at least look at …
Read MoreThis week is Computer Science Education week (CSEW) and I am really exited that Computer Science is being seen for what it is, A gateway to an amazing future.
The Hour of Code is upon us and urge everybody to look at helping children and adults do their first hour.
Microsoft have been promoting the Hour of Code and the …
Read MoreWhilst building a new TFS build agent VM using our standard scripts I hit a problem that SSDT projects would not build, but was fine on our existing agents. The error was
C:Program Files (x86)MSBuildMicrosoftVisualStudiov12.0SSDTMicrosoft.Data.Tools.Schema.SqlTasks.targets (513): The "SqlBuildTask" task …
Read MoreI posted a month or so ago about my ‘Experiences using a DD-WRT router with Hyper-V’, well I have been living with it over a month? How has it been going?
Like the curate’s egg ‘good in parts’. It seems OK for while and then everything would get a bit slow to stop.
Just as a reminder this is what I had ended up with …
Read MoreWe use O365 to provide Lync messaging. So when I rebuilt my PC I thought I needed to re-install the client; so I logged into the O365 web site and selected the install option. Turns out this was a mistake. I had Office 2013 installed, so I already had the client, I just had not noticed.
If you do install O365 Lync …
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