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 .

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I have been running Windows 10 on my pro 3 since the preview was first available. Truth being told there have been at least two occasions where taking it off seemed to be the best option but in both cases updates fixed the problem.

Being a developer I don’t always think before upgrading to new technology but in general …

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 …

The lovely people in the IT Pro team have announced their IT Pro Honours list and I am privileged to be on it.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/uktechnet/archive/2015/01/05/new-year-s-honours-list-2015.aspx

A great set of professionals and Me and Rik.

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I have been very fortunate to get hold of a Microsoft Band. Bands are currently in short supply, but thanks to an Angel in Minnesota I have one. Currently there is no expected release date for the UK, but a quick look at EBay will turn up enough units to buy, remember the retail price is $199. CAUTION – Check

The Band …

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 …