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TFS performance data collection
I recently had a customer that asked “How can I tell if the proxy server would be a benefit to my offshore team”. This is a good questions that needs data to compare the before and after proxy. The...
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Automate deployment and management in Microsoft Azure
At the heart of any continuous delivery practices is automation. If you still heavy manual process in you delivery process. Well to be frank, you are doing it wrong! There is no other way to say it....
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PowerShell and Desire State Configuration (DSC) – The Basics
With all the latest Microsoft releases it’s apparent that PowerShell and Desire State Configuration (DSC) is at the core of build, releases, and configuration management. If you have not learned...
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Install and setup for Azure and Desired State Configuration (DSC)
In the last Powerbits post, I talked about the basics of PowerShell and how it’s the foundational building block for DSC. In this post we will be covering the required installations for DSC and how to...
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Desired State Configuration (DSC) foundational technologies
In today’s PowerShell Powerbit, we are going to look at the Desired State Configuration (DSC) foundational technologies in more detail. When learning anything new, like PowerShell or DSC, defining and...
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Configuration Management and Desired State Configuration (DSC)
In the last post, we talked about PowerShell and DSC at a technical level. In this blog post, I wanted to cover the challenges and bottlenecks that I see within companies as the code enters the build,...
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From the last four posts in this series, I have explained the DSC foundation corner stone of the what, why, were and how. Figure 1 With a good foundation of the basic to work from. We now can go deeper...
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Process Templates Resources
I have put together a quick reference on are the default Work Item Type (WIT) each TFS version. This is very handy when you need are doing a upgrade to a new TFS version and need to know what template...
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TFS 2013 Tools list for 2014
Over the course of the last few months there have been some new updates to existing TFS tools and new ones created to help all of us administrate and manage our TFS environments. I’ve put together a...
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Finding and reducing TFS 2013 database size
Before I do an upgrade I always ask for the size of the TFS database set. It provides me the information on how long an upgrade might take. The queries below, also provides information of attachments...
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