Whenever I tried to load an Office 2013 document from our SharePoint 2010 instance I kept ending up in the Office Web Application, the Office application was not being launched.

If I tried the use the ‘Open in Word’ context menu I got the following error (and before you ask yes I was in IE, IE11 in fact, and Office …

I am really pleased to be speaking at Techorama again this year. This is a great friendly conference that covers a wide range of subjects.

Like last year the conference is in Mechelen, Belgium on the 12 and 13th of May. Hope to see some of you there

In preparation for my Techdays session next month, I have been sorting demos using the various Release Management clients.

When I tried to create a release from within Visual Studio using the ‘Release Management tools for Visual Studio I found I could not add my Azure subscriptions. I saw the error ‘An unexpected error …

If the reason you have not been using VSO was concern over where it is hosted, then last week Microsoft made an announcement that could ease some of your worries, or at least your legal departments.  VSO now has ISO 27001 Certification and European Model Clauses; for more details see Brian Harry’s blog.

This added to …

One of my blog posts has been re-posted on the Microsoft  UK Developers blog  Resolving the DCS two-step - Release Management vNext deployment

This post covers part of what I will be talking about at Microsoft Techdays on the 5th of February .

You can register here for this free online event

On the 5th of February I will be presenting at Microsoft’s online Techdays event. My session is entitled ‘How are you going to deploy that? A look at configuration as code’

“It does not matter what platform you are developing for, you are going to have to deploy your product in the end. Too often in the past the …

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 …

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 …