My DSC works from PowerShell ISE but not from Release Management 06 February 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) If you are like me you learned Desired State Configuration (DSC) before trying to incorporate it with Release Management. I recommend this because you get a pure understanding of DSC and its full capabilities. The only caveat to learning DSC this way is certain things are different when used ... [More]
How to use VSO and RMO to deploy an Azure Website 21 November 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) This is a neat post because we are going to be using all three Azure offerings SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.& [More]
How to deploy the Fabriakam Call Center application with DSC 20 November 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Because there is not an Update 4 version of the Keller VM using the Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 Keller VM I will show you how to upgrade Release Management to Update 4 and create a vNext deployment for the Fabriakam Call Center application. First we have to uninstall Release Management Update 3. Lo... [More]
How to Xcopy deploy using TFS 2010/2012 01 August 2011 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Problem I need my VS2010/VS2012 build to perform an “Xcopy deployment” of my ASP.NET application to an existing virtual directory. Solution Customize the build template to use the CopyDirectory activity to copy the ASP.NET application to the virtual directory. Explanation One of the... [More]
I can't run my scripts created by DBPro in SSMS 26 July 2011 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Problem When I try and run my deploy scripts from DBPro in SSMS I get syntax errors where variables are used. Solution Switch on SQL CMD Mode before you execute the SQL file. To enable the SQL CMD Mode select SQL CMD Mode from the Query menu in SSMS.