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 …
Windows Workflow Foundation, Coming to .NET Core? Read More »
Starting last year, we began utilizing the SAFe process for portfolio management and software development planning. The SAFe website provides the following description: SAFe® is an online, freely revealed knowledge base of proven success patterns for implementing Lean-Agile software and systems development at enterprise scale. It provides comprehensive guidance for work at the enterprise Portfolio, …
My blog started 7 years ago when I first started developing for Windows Phone 7 as a hobby. At that time, I was also co-authoring a small cookbook-style technical book on the same subject so a blog seemed like a natural place to augment my book writing and get user feedback. I was one of …
Consul is an open source service discovery and configuration server built by HashiCorp and is highly regarded amongst the broad software development community. We are researching options for common shared services which can be used across multiple platforms at work and this one seemed to fit the bill for distributed configuration amongst other features. Consul …
Intro to Distributed Config with Consul on ASP.NET COre Read More »
Well, that’s a fun title but I think it most accurately describes the topic of this post. To explain further, I’m running Docker Toolbox 1.12.3 on Windows 7 Professional which utilizes VirtualBox (5.0.26) to host a Linux VM as the Docker Host in Linux. Lots of blog posts mention you can use the –p option …
Lots of people have asked me how we handle rollbacks in our Continuous Delivery pipeline. The short answer is we can redeploy an older MSDeploy package to revert to an older version of our websites, services and other applications. Inevitably, the next question is what about your databases? We can actually rollback our databases as …
Web applications which require high scale or redundancy (very common in enterpise environments) must be deployed to multiple web servers and traffic distributed to the servers by a load balancer or proxy of some type. Those applications also often require no-downtime deployments. In this post, we will review how our team deploys our MSDeploy/WebDeploy packages …
Zero-downtime Clustered Deployment of WebDeploy Packages Via PowerShell Read More »
Back in June I blogged about how you can manually create MSDeploy packages for an ASP.NET Website. The quick summary is Microsoft didn’t provide a way to package Websites via MSBuild like Web Applications because Websites are typically compiled at run time by the ASP.NET process. (Note – They do allow you to create a …