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by Martin Hinshelwood
If you are setting up to run Team Foundation Server’s vNext build system that Microsoft is previewing on VSO you may hit a “Unable to load task handler PowerShell for task VSBuild with version 1.0.1” error when you try to …
by Martin Hinshelwood
With the release of Team Foundation Server 2015 CTP you should be starting to plan your upgrade strategy. It’s going to be a tough one but you should get ready to upgrade to TFS 2015 now. Mainstream support for TFS …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Using the Build vNext capabilities and demands in VSO is one of the new cool features of the vNext build system being developed by Microsoft on VSO.
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have had a lot of folks asking for dates of the public courses that I will be running in the next few months. When I moved back from the USA and started consulting I initially alighted at my parents’ …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I am going to show how to create a Build.vNext build definition on VSO. Microsoft recently announced the creation of a brand new build system for TFS and VSO at the Connect event last year. This new build system will …
by Martin Hinshelwood
It has been just over a year since I returned from 3 years in the USA and started naked ALM Consulting, and things are going well.. So far. The key to success in software development is, I believe, Professional Scrum.
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have been doing quite a bit of ALM Training recently and have been trying to figure out how best to manage my training VM’s. Download Mobile Azure Manager from US Store Download Mobile Azure Manager from UK store In …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I last posted on why you should use Visual Studio ALM due to a customer ask, and now I have been asked to justify a move to Visual Studio Online for a company looking to use it for about 5,000 …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Due to the decimation of the oil prices one of my larger customers has had to cancel our engagement for February. I am suddenly and surprisingly available in February! I usually have engagements booked out up to 3 months in …
by Martin Hinshelwood
If you are using Windows Server 2012 R2 to test out the new vNext build agent then you may run into an error where it could not load file or assembly while configuring Build.vNext Agent.
by Martin Hinshelwood
I am going to show how to configure a VSO vNext Build Agent. Microsoft recently announced the creation of a brand new build system for TFS and VSO at the Connect event last year.
by Martin Hinshelwood
I just got a question on Teams without areas using Team Field in TFS and I decided that it warranted a bigger answer. The question was around creating nested teams and how to achieve it. Now, this applies to both …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I see many organisations looking at TFS and trying to make the decision on why should I use Visual Studio ALM. Often you already have some tools and you want to move to TFS, or you have TFS and you …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Now that you have finished moving your Domain Controller Azure VM to a Virtual Network] you need to be able to join a machine to your azure hosted domain controller.
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have recently been doing a lot of migrations and Willy asked me to write a white-paper about understanding TFS migrations from on-premise to Visual Studio Online.
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have been working through my demos for NDC London next week. And I found it almost impossible to create log entries in Release Management where I wanted.
by Martin Hinshelwood
I was in London last week to do a talk on why TFS no longer sucks entitled “Second Look, Team Foundation Server & VSO”. I had a tone of preparatory work to do too make the demos smooth. The great god Murphy was …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Now that I have it configured I want to show how to create a Release Management pipeline for Professional Developers and Development Teams.
by Martin Hinshelwood
Next week I will be speaking at NDC London 2014 and I have been working on my demo. Since Connect() everything for a little bit easier and I need to create an environment for Release Management for Visual Studio 2013.
by Martin Hinshelwood
I just got done configuring a DC in Azure for AAD integrated Release Management and I need to now Configure a DNS server for an Azure Virtual Network