Our development teams started upgrading to VS2017 a few months back and the vast majority were completely successful. One team, however, had an issue with their CodedUI tests not running. In this post I’ll share the steps we went through to troubleshoot and get their CodedUI tests working in VS2017. QualityTools References First task was …
Shortly after writing my first Chef cookbook and using it in a production environment we needed to update the cookbook with changes. Thankful Chef has you covered here. You can constrain cookbook versions in each environment to ensure that a new cookbook version is not automatically/immediately applied to a production server. Instead we can slowly …
I’ve seen the following error a few times when bootstrapping Chef on a Windows server: * windows_package[Windows Management Framework Core 5.1] action install[2017-12-22T12:05:38-06:00] INFO: Processing windows_package[Windows Management Framework Core 5.1] action install (powershell::powershell5 line 41) ======================================================Error executing action `install` on resource ‘windows_package[Windows Management Framework Core 5.1]’ ======================================================Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed ———————————— Expected process to exit with [0, 42, …
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I tried to change the installed WebServer features on a Windows Server 2008 R2 box and hit the following error: Installation of [Web Server (IIS)] Management Service failed. Attempt to install Management Service failed with error code 0x80070643. Fatal error during installation + CategoryInfo : OperationStopped: (:) [], CimException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : FeatureMessageDetail,Microsoft.Windows.ServerMan ager.Commands.AddWindowsFeatureCommand + …
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We have been utilizing AppFabric in IIS to monitor our WCF/WF service successfully for several years now. I found a few older servers that had not been update to the latest 1.1 version so I decided to update them. This turned out to be more complicated than I expected so I wanted to share the …
As expected, the Microsoft Connect 2017 Keynote was excellent again this year with many new service and feature announcements from a diverse set of talented presenters. The keynotes and most sessions are available for on-demand viewing, which I highly recommend. But, if you don’t have the time, this blog post is your quick cheat sheet …
We have been using TFS 2015 with great success for a couple years now. This includes the new build system where we can use the built in build tasks. For example, the typical Visual Studio project build definition includes the following tasks: These worked great until we tried to build a solution which included .NET …
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Microsoft is continuing to make Azure easier for developers to get started and try. They now have a dedicated page to list all the free services available to all users. In the past there has been mixed messages of the types of “free” accounts for different types of Azure users. So this should make it …
I’m currently in the midst of speaking to vendors with “commercial off the shelf” (COTS) solutions in order to re-evaluate whether we should be building or buying software to fill a customer need. So I wanted to share some of my thoughts on the evaluation process to hopefully help others. Purpose for Developers As software …
I had the wonderful opportunity to attend and speak at the Nashville DevOpsDays 2017 Conference last week. So I wanted to share some quick thoughts from my first DevOpsDays experience. Venue The venue (The Bell Tower) was a really cool and intimate space. Not too big/small it was just the right size. The food was …