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]
There appears to be a bug in the XCopy Deployer tool for Release Management 19 January 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) I was looking around on the User Voice page for Release Management and noticed a feature request about using /exclude flag with the XCopy Deployer tool. The user was requesting the tool be updated to support that option. My knee jerk reaction was just add a Custom tool yourself that does it! ... [More]
How to harvest the out of the box Agent Based tools from Release Management 19 January 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) One of the great features of Release Management is the ability to add your own custom tools. Many times the custom tool I want to add is similar to one of the tools that comes out of the box. Yet, there is no way from within Release Management to download the resources that make up the o... [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]
Is DSC an upgrade to Agent-based pipelines? 15 January 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) There have been a lot of questions from customers and on internal distribution list lately on Release Management, Agent-based vs vNext and how best to deploy to PaaS. So instead of answering the same questions over and over again I decided to write this post and just point them here. There ar... [More]