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  • GitHub Events not being triggered for auto-merged Dependabot PRs

    author Richard Fennell calendar Mar 18, 2024 · 4 min read · TechTips GitHub  ·
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    Background

    I have an Azure Static Website that is built from a GitHub hosted repo using the default Action Workflow automation created by Azure when setting up the static site.

    A really nice feature of this configuration is that when a PR is created in GitHub a test static website environment site is built in Azure to …


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  • I can't get git.exe installed on my corporate PC

    author Richard Fennell calendar Feb 2, 2024 · 4 min read · TechTips  ·
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    Issue

    Many development tools rely on the fact that git.exe is installed to perform source control operations e.g. VSCode. However, a common problem I have seen is that security settings on many corporate Windows devices do not allow the installation of git CLI using an MSI file by the user. VSCode is an approved …


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  • Change in Edge/Chromium profile settings broke my Azure Entra ID SSO

    author Richard Fennell calendar Dec 21, 2023 · 2 min read · TechTips  ·
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    Background

    I have recently hit a problem whilst developing some training material on Single Sign on (SSO) in GitHub Enterprise. This training is to be delivered in a training instance of GHE that is configured to use a training instance of Azure Entra ID as the SAML identity provider.

    To make my life easier, so I am …


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  • Caching NVD Vulnerability Dependency data on hosted Azure DevOps Pipeline agents

    author Richard Fennell calendar Dec 6, 2023 · 3 min read · TechTips  ·
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    Background

    On some projects we use Jeremy Long's DependencyCheck tool, via the Azure DevOps task, to scan our code for known vulnerabilities. This tool uses the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) to get its data. This data is downloaded on demand from the NVD site but the DependencyCheck tool.

    Since the recent API …


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  • Setting Azure DevOps Agent Pool Descriptions via the Azure DevOps API

    author Richard Fennell calendar Aug 24, 2023 · 3 min read · TechTips  ·
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    The Issue

    If you are using Azure Scale Set based Azure DevOps Agent Pools (VMSS) to provide dynamically scalable agent pools, unlike with self hosted agent pools, there is no capabilities tab for the individual agents.

    Agent Capabilities tabclass="image_figure …


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  • Setting up Snipe IT on Azure using Docker

    author Richard Fennell calendar Aug 9, 2023 · 6 min read · TechTips  ·
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    Background

    I have recently been looking at getting Snipe-IT running on Azure using a Docker container. Though the documentation for this project is good, the detail for the Azure setup is a little lacking. So I thought I would document the steps and Rik Hepworth took to get it working.

    Notes:

    • This is a simple …

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  • SonarCloud Azure DevOps PR Analysis fails with a 404 error

    author Richard Fennell calendar Aug 3, 2023 · 1 min read · TechTips  ·
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    The Problem

    Recently had an issue on a project that had been paused for a few months.

    When we restarted the project we found that the SonarCloud PR analysis, running via an Azure DevOps YAML pipeline, was failing with a 404 error. The strange thing was that the same pipeline running analysis of the main trunk or the …


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  • Fix for metadata generation failed exit code: 2147450750 loading wrong version of DLLs when building Azure Functions

    author Richard Fennell calendar Jul 19, 2023 · 3 min read · TechTips  ·
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    The Problem

    Recently an Azure DevOps Pipeline for a .NET 6 based Azure Functions started to fail on some of our self-hosted build agents with the error

    1 …

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  • Update on sending social media posts from Hugo based static site

    author Richard Fennell calendar Jul 13, 2023 · 1 min read · TechTips  ·
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    Around a year ago I posted on 'Social Media Posts after Migrating from WordPress to Hugo Static Pages'. Recently I have found that the Twitter functionality in my Logic App was failing.

    Turns out this was due to the changes in the Twitter Free API, with them moving from V1 to V2 which requires OAuth authentication as …


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