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]
What are the System variables for PS / DSC deployments in Release Management? 22 January 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) By default when you execute a “Deploy Using PS/DSC” action in Release Management U4 you have access to these System variables in your PowerShell or DSC Scripts $applicationPathRoot - Application Path Root* $buildNumber - Build Number (for component in the release) $build... [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]
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]
How to resolve Windows machine names from Ubuntu server 17 January 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Problem: I can’t resolve my Windows machine names on my Ubuntu Linux box. Solution: Install libnss-winbind and then update your /etc/nsswitch.conf file. To install libnss-winbind run the following command: sudo apt-get install libnss-winbind When asked “Do you want to con... [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]