Had an issue last night with a Chef cookbook that I was developing using Kitchen. The cookbook had been working no problem 2 nights ago and all of the sudden started getting the following error during the Kitchen Converge: [2017-03-15T18:54:32-07:00] WARN: PowerShell 2.0 is not supported or already installed on this version of Windows: …
Making a persistent change to the PATH environment variable in Windows Nano was harder than expected. I found many forum/blog posts that had different PowerShell scripts to append to PATH that would work in older versions of windows but not in Nano. I finally found the following script works in Nano: Now I can access …
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Decided to try out Windows Nano Server 2016 today in a HyperV VHD. Microsoft provides a VHD for Nano on their evaluation site or you can create your own VHD. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-2016 https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-docs/get-started/nano-server-quick-start Nano is a headless operating system. This means you can’t remote into it like other Windows Server OS versions because it doesn’t have …
Over the years we have had several cases where TFS builds or our CI process fails to create a workspace. After digging into the logs we find the following error: Exception Message: The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the …
I’ve been working with Kitchen to test Chef cookbooks for Windows Server again recently and needed a new base VHD image to test against. This time however I decided to use Hyper-V directly on a Windows 10 host instead of Vagrant as the Kitchen driver. My assumption was the Hyper-V driver has gotten better over …
Had an issue today with one of our CD pipelines in Thoughtsworks GO! where it was throwing the following error: [cruise] Start updating WorkItemSource at revision 5555 from http://mytfsserver1p:8080/tfs Failed while checking out into Working Folder: pipelines\AcmeTracker\AcmeSource, Project Path: $/Group/Services/acme.svc/Main, Workspace: d3f98ee96fd565s4f65s4fdsd564wer6b292b74, Username: SVCUser, Domain: MyDomain, Root Cause: com.microsoft.tfs.core.exceptions.TECoreException: TF400898: An Internal Error Occurred. Activity …
This week I finally installed Windows 10 on my main laptop at work (which is 3 years old now) paving over my old Windows 7 install. Overall the install/upgrade was super easy, fast and the results are amazing. Its like a brand new laptop again. I would definitely recommend updating if/when you have the appropriate …
Just wanted to pass along this issue/solution I found when querying Active Directory for users in a group. We have a utility which queries Active Directory for users in groups and outputs a file with related information. Here is the code we used to query AD: This worked without issue for many months until we …
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a common and useful tool for many large enterprises but they rarely have an automated deployment strategy. The common misconception is SSIS deployments are hard or not possible to automate. Like everything else we have attempted to automate the deployment of, MSDeploy can handle SSIS packages too. In this …
I am a big fan of Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). After deciding not to use it 6 years ago on a project and seeing the resulting mess of a dictionary based workflow system, I was convinced there had to be a better way. So when we started a new project to build an order processing …
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