It’s finally here! The .NET Team at Microsoft released .NET Core 2.0 last week (August 14, 2017) along with .NET Standard 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0 and Entity Framework Core 2.0. This release is provided 10 months after the release of .NET Core 1.1. Here is a simplified timeline of the major releases for .NET Core. …
Measuring site performance may seem overwhelming if you’ve never done it before. Google Analytics (GA) is a great, free tool for measuring site speed amongst other metrics/data. Setup is as simple as adding some JavaScript to your webpage. Application Insights from Microsoft is another free option you can try but today we will look at …
Git credential management has always just worked for me on Windows which has been nice. The community initially had wincred or git-credential-winstore for managing Git credentials on Windows but this was replaced with the Git Credential Manager for Windows in 2015. The latter is an official Microsoft project. Both use(d) the Windows Credential Manager for …
We updated some of the cookbooks on our Chef server recently which included the PowerShell cookbook version 6.1. The main new feature of version 6.1 is to install PowerShell 5.1 instead of PowerShell 5.0. After updating the cookbooks, we started receiving the following error in our chef-client run: [2017-07-31T05:23:42-07:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ResourceNotFound: resource windows_package[Windows Managemen …
PowerShell 6.1 Cookbook Error: reboot[powershell] resource not found Read More »
We recently found the following error when attempting to apply a new custom web server Chef cookbook that was meant to standardize the Windows Server features/roles across an existing set of servers. Installation of [Web Server (IIS)] Tracing failed. Attempt to install Tracing failed with error code 0x80070643. Fatal error during installation There were actually …
2008R2 ERROR: Role or Feature Install failed with error code 0x80070643 Read More »
Wanted to share a quick tip with you today regarding using PowerShell from within Chef. More specifically, using the dsc_resource to run PowerShell script. I routinely use this resource to run PowerShell on Windows nodes through Chef. In this case, the test script always returned false. The test was a simple test-path call against a …
We found a new error yesterday when we tried to run a cookbook on a new node via Chef Server. Recipe: chef-client::task * chef_client_scheduled_task[Chef Client] action add[2017-07-17T09:01:09-05:00] INFO: Processing chef_client_scheduled_task[Chef Client] action add (chef-client::task line 21) ================================================================================ Error executing action `add` on resource ‘chef_client_scheduled_task[Chef Client]’ ================================================================================ RuntimeError ———— can’t modify frozen String Cookbook Trace: ————— …
We have been focusing a lot on performance recently and trying to find a common metric that we can use across applications to measure our website performance. We have had Google Analytics setup on the sites for a while and use it from time to time. In this case, we started diving deeper in the …
If your migrating from TFS to git, don’t forget to change your source control plugin in Visual Studio. Unfortunately, this isn’t automatic and Visual Studio still tries to use TFS even after you have initialized the folder as a git repo. You can update your plugin by searching for “source control” in the Quick Launch …
Visual Studio Quick Tip: Source Control Selection – Git Read More »
My development group has traditionally used TFS version control (TFVC) for our source control management. It hasn’t always been a great experience (especially when we had long lived branches outside of the MAIN branch) but we have been using it successfully for 6+ years. I recently needed to move a couple of solutions from TFVC …