Speaking at St. Louis Days of .NET 2014 24 August 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Shortly after returning from speaking at TechEd Europe I will be speaking at St. Louis Days of .NET 2014. A Practical View of Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 This session provides a detailed technical presentation of the functionality and architecture of Release Management for Visual St... [More]
Speaking at TechEd Europe 2014! 19 August 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) I am so excited to be speaking at TechEd Europe 2014. Come check out the following sessions: DEV-B310 A Practical View of Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 BreakoutPrimary Speaker(s): Claude Remillard, Donovan BrownSpeaker Assistant(s): Proposed Speaker(s:) This session demos using De... [More]
I can't register the Microsoft Deployment Agent 2013 11 May 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Updated: With update 2 the deployer account no longer as to be an admin on the machine. The account simply needs to correct permissions to deploy the desired components. Problem: When I attempt to register my deployer I get a 401 unauthorized error. Solution: Make sure the ... [More]
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]
Can't deploy Through Release Management Server over HTTP(S) 17 April 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Problem: Configuring the “Drop Location Access” as “Through Release Management Server over HTTP(S)” with Release Management I get the following error:“Message: Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=4.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2... [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]
The build template with Release Management does not work in TFS 2013 Build 16 January 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Problem: I get an error when I use the build template installed with Release Management with TFS 2013. Solution: If your release of TFS 2013 is using TfvcTemplate.12.xaml you will not be able to use the ReleaseDefaultTemplate.11.1.xaml template that ships with Release Management. You will have to... [More]
SharePoint strikes again and takes down Release Management 09 December 2013 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Problem: My Release Management Application Pool (ReleaseManagementAppPool) is stopped and will not stay running. Solution: Open the ApplicationHost.config from “%systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\config” and add “preCondition="integratedMode,bitness64"” to the SPNative... [More]