In the past I’ve used Windows Server 2008R2 and 2012 for testing Chef cookbooks for Windows. I’ve always got it working but it was slow. These VM images are typically around 20GB in size so it took time to spin them up and get them going. Creating, converging and verifying a simple cookbook with Kitchen …
In general, its pretty easy to extend the MSBuild process in ASP.NET projects using the [ProjectName].wpp.targets file. I recently attempted to answer a StackOverflow question asking how to automatically deploy on every Visual Studio build using this technique. My first overly-confident answer was to add the same MSBuild properties that would be used from the …
I recently repaved my machine with Windows 10 and a fresh copy of VS2017 only. I have been using it for several weeks now and it is working very well. In testing some deployments I noticed that I didn’t have the WebDeploy Remote Agent Service running locally. So I tried to reinstall WebDeploy from a …
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Had an issue last night with a Chef cookbook that I was developing using Kitchen. The cookbook had been working no problem 2 nights ago and all of the sudden started getting the following error during the Kitchen Converge: [2017-03-15T18:54:32-07:00] WARN: PowerShell 2.0 is not supported or already installed on this version of Windows: …
Making a persistent change to the PATH environment variable in Windows Nano was harder than expected. I found many forum/blog posts that had different PowerShell scripts to append to PATH that would work in older versions of windows but not in Nano. I finally found the following script works in Nano: Now I can access …
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Decided to try out Windows Nano Server 2016 today in a HyperV VHD. Microsoft provides a VHD for Nano on their evaluation site or you can create your own VHD. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-2016 https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-docs/get-started/nano-server-quick-start Nano is a headless operating system. This means you can’t remote into it like other Windows Server OS versions because it doesn’t have …
Over the years we have had several cases where TFS builds or our CI process fails to create a workspace. After digging into the logs we find the following error: Exception Message: The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the …
I’ve been working with Kitchen to test Chef cookbooks for Windows Server again recently and needed a new base VHD image to test against. This time however I decided to use Hyper-V directly on a Windows 10 host instead of Vagrant as the Kitchen driver. My assumption was the Hyper-V driver has gotten better over …
Had an issue today with one of our CD pipelines in Thoughtsworks GO! where it was throwing the following error: [cruise] Start updating WorkItemSource at revision 5555 from http://mytfsserver1p:8080/tfs Failed while checking out into Working Folder: pipelines\AcmeTracker\AcmeSource, Project Path: $/Group/Services/acme.svc/Main, Workspace: d3f98ee96fd565s4f65s4fdsd564wer6b292b74, Username: SVCUser, Domain: MyDomain, Root Cause: com.microsoft.tfs.core.exceptions.TECoreException: TF400898: An Internal Error Occurred. Activity …
This week I finally installed Windows 10 on my main laptop at work (which is 3 years old now) paving over my old Windows 7 install. Overall the install/upgrade was super easy, fast and the results are amazing. Its like a brand new laptop again. I would definitely recommend updating if/when you have the appropriate …