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  • Personal Access Tokens (PATs) are not your friends

    author Richard Fennell calendar Mar 22, 2024 · 3 min read · Opinion Tech-Tips  ·
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    Background

    Programmatic connection to Azure DevOps cannot be done with your Active Directory credentials. This is because this involves a dialog being shown, and these days usually an MFA check too.

    Historically, the solution to this problem was to enable Alternate Credentials, which could be passed as username and …


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  • Don't forget to commit your configuration file

    author Richard Fennell calendar Mar 20, 2024 · 1 min read · Tech-Tips  ·
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    It is a major effort, often unfortunately ignored, keeping the dependencies in an open source project up to date. This was highlighted in Jesse Houwing's post on the state of the Azure DevOps Marketplace.

    Since reading this I have made much more of an effort to keep my Azure DevOps Extensions up to date. Dependabot …


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  • Parsing error with Azure Bicep files in SonarQube

    author Richard Fennell calendar Mar 19, 2024 · 2 min read · Tech-Tips SonarQube  ·
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    The Issue

    We saw an issue with our SonarQube 10.3 Developer Edition (that is running as a Docker image hosted in Azure) when it was doing the analysis of a project that included Azure Bicep files.

    The Azure DevOps pipeline that triggered the SonarQube analysis was not failing, but within the SonarQube analysis step an …


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  • Site fails to render when updating Hugo version

    author Richard Fennell calendar Feb 16, 2024 · 2 min read · Tech Tips  ·
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    The Issue

    This site was built using Hugo, a static site generator. I recently tried to do a long overdue update the version of Hugo from 0.108 to the current 0.122 version.

    I had not expected any problems, but found that the site failed to render, but with no error message all I saw was

    1hugo.exe server --logLevel info …

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  • Getting a BadGateway error when trying to create Azure DevOps Work items using Power Automated

    author Richard Fennell calendar Feb 13, 2024 · 2 min read · Tech Tips  ·
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    I was recently trying to create an Azure DevOps work item when an email is received using the Power Automate 'Create an Azure DevOps work item when email arrives with 'Bug' in subject' template.

    The flow created without issue, and all the drop downs were correctly populated with O365 and Azure DevOps values as …


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  • SonarQube Docker Container will not start

    author Richard Fennell calendar Sep 27, 2023 · 2 min read · Tech Tips SonarQube  ·
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    The Problem

    We run our SonarQube instance in a Docker container hosted in an Azure Web App Service. Today, with no notice, it failed. We did the obvious, just tried to restart it and the startup process failed.

    Looking at the Azure Web App's Log Stream we could see the following error repeated on each restart attempt …


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  • Moving my Azure DevOps Pipeline generated social posts to Azure Logic Apps

    author Richard Fennell calendar Apr 25, 2023 · 2 min read · Tech Tips  ·
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    I posted a while ago about how I had automated the generation of social media posts for my static Hugo based website using Azure Logic Apps.

    The other place I auto-generate social media posts is from releases via my project's Azure DevOps Pipeline builds. These use a YAML Pipeline Template that calls a Marketplace task …


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  • A more secure alternative to PAT tokens for accessing Azure DevOps Programmatically

    author Richard Fennell calendar Apr 21, 2023 · 3 min read · Tech Tips  ·
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    Background

    When working with Azure DevOps, you may need to access the REST API if you wish to perform scripted tasks such as creating work items, or generating reports. Historically, you had to use a Personal Access Token (PAT) to do this.

    If you look in my repo of useful Azure DevOps PowerShell scripts you will find …


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  • Downloading NuGet packages with 'System.Net.WebClient' from an Azure DevOps Artifact feed

    author Richard Fennell calendar Apr 1, 2023 · 2 min read · Tech Tips  ·
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    Background

    We use Lability to build Windows Server images for our test labs. Lability makes use of Desired State Configuration (DSC) to build the VM images. Part of this process is for Lability to download DSC modules, as ZIP files, from a NuGet feed such as PowerShell Gallery to inject into the created VM image. …


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  • Pinning specific Azure DevOps task versions

    author Richard Fennell calendar Mar 8, 2023 · 1 min read · Tech Tips DevOps  ·
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    I make every effort keep all my Azure DevOps Pipeline extensions reliable as I know they are used by many people, but mistakes happen.

    Yesterday I released an updated version of my ReleaseNotes task that introduced a bug if the pipeline produced no artifacts. I am pleased to say I have fixed the bug, and addressed this …


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