Track current location in PowerShell Title Bar 11 October 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) CLIs or Command-line interfaces are great tools but can become difficult to use when you are buried deep into the file system. The prompt becomes so long that your commands begin to wrap onto additional lines making it hard to identify errors. However, with PowerShell you can move the curre... [More]
Release Management Error - Permission denied while trying to connect to the target machine 06 October 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Problem: I get the following error when I attempt a DSC release with Release Management: Permission denied while trying to connect to the target machine Demo on the port:5985 via power shell remoting. Solution: Don't overlook the obvious. Triple check the password of the account in the "De... [More]
Missing WinRMPort in Server DNSName xxx 25 September 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Problem From Release Management I am getting the following error when I attempt a DSC deployment “Missing WinRMPort in Server DNSName xxx” Solution Make sure and include the port when adding a server to your environment.
Start-DscConfiguration access denied 25 September 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Problem: When I try and execute Start-DscConfiguration I get the following error message: The WS-Management service cannot process the request. The WMI service returned an 'access denied' error. + CategoryInfo : PermissionDenied: (root/Microsoft/...gurationManager:String) [], CimExcepti... [More]
Tokenization for DSC 05 September 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Update! This resources has been officially release by Microsoft here http://tinyurl.com/xReleaseManagement Update 3 of Release Management introduced Desired State Configuration (DSC) as a deployment option in addition to the deployer based solution. With DSC we can utilized the Local C... [More]
I can't find PowerShell ISE on Windows 8.1 17 August 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Problem: I can't seem to find the PowerShell ISE on Windows 8.1. Solution: http://trekker.net/archives/where-is-the-powershell-ise-in-windows-8/
Start and stop Hyper-V VMs from Release Management 06 May 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) While preparing my Demo for TechEd North America 2014 on Release Management I ran into a challenge that required me to add additional custom tools. I thought I would blog about one of the tools I decided to add. One of the goals of my Release Management demo was to deploy to Azure which is an amazi... [More]
Stop and deallocate an Azure VM from Release Management 30 April 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Problem: While trying to start an Azure VM from Release Management I get the following error: "ERROR: Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets is not installed." Even though I followed all of the instructions here. Solution: There are actually two solutions. First is update the "PSModulePath" env... [More]
Running Microsoft Test Manager Suite with Release Management 25 January 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Goal I want to run a Microsoft Test Manager Suite after my bits are deployed by Microsoft Release Management (InRelease). Solution: There appears to be a bug in the current "MTM Automated Tests Manager" tool that will fail if your build definition name contains spaces. So I took this opportu... [More]