So you want to move from agent based Release Management to vNext but still need Tokenization. 13 February 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) The xReleaseManagement resource brings Release Management Tokenization to Desired State Configuration. The xReleaseManagement resource enables a natural migration path from Agent Based Release Management deployments to DSC (or vNext) based deployments. This resource supports using the techniq... [More]
Toggle the Retain Indefinitely flag from Release Management 10 February 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Problem:We employ continuous delivery with Release Management and our drop server has run out of di [More]
Release Management Comparison Chart 09 February 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) This blog post is comparing the current features set of Microsoft’s hosted Release Management solution – Release Management Online (RMO) and the on premises Release Management product. Feature Comparison (as of February 2015) On Premises RMO az... [More]
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]
My vNext Release fails with SSL error 05 February 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Problem: I am trying to deploy using Release Management vNext pipeline and I receive the following error: Connecting to remote server MyServer failed with the following error message : The server certificate on the destination computer (MyServer:5986) has the following errors: ... [More]
My Release Template changes are being ignored 04 February 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) I was recently asked for help with Release Management where the user noticed the changes to their Release Template were not taking effect. After further investigation I identified the confusion and felt it deserved further explanation. The user began a release which failed on a “Deploy Using ... [More]
How to trigger a rollback based on user input from Release Management 19 January 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Quite often I am asked can a Rollback be triggered in Release Management if a user rejects a step of the release. By default rejecting a step of the release will simply stop the release but will not rollback the system to a previous state. However, you can use the Manual Intervention action t... [More]
How to get my reports in Chef Server working on Ubuntu 18 January 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Problem: I installed the Chef Server but my Reports are not working. Solution: The reporting piece of Chef is actually installed separately from the server. To get reports to work simply issue these commands. sudo chef-server-ctl install opscode-reporting sudo opscode-reporting-ctl reco... [More]
How to install Chef Server on an Ubuntu server in Hyper-V or Azure 17 January 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Today we are going to build a Chef Server on an Ubuntu server in Hyper-V or Azure.Hyper-VStep one [More]
Never forget -Verbose again 28 November 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Working with DSC I am constantly having to type –Verbose on my Start-DscConfiguration calls. However, I stumbled across this cool feature of PowerShell that I thought I would share that will set the –Verbose switch on all your calls for you. PowerShell has a collection of Preferen... [More]