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Solve basic auth proxy issues with Nuget, Visual Studio and Xamarin (hack)
When you're using Visual Studio behind a Basic Authenticaton proxy, you may run into issues restoring Nuget packages. While I've never found a real solution for the issue, and trust me I've tried quite...
View ArticleForce uninstall Visual Studio 2017 Release candidates
If you, like me, are stuck trying to upgrade Visual Studio 2017, then you may only get unblocked by removing everything ans starting afresh. Since Visual Studio 2017 is still in Release Candidate and...
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Add :8080 to your TFS 2017 bindings after upgrading to SSL
Because TFS 2017 allows authentication with Personal Access Tokens (PAT) it's recommended to upgrade to SSL if you were still on port 80. The installer will even help with the configuration and can add...
View ArticleGlobal DevOps BootCamp 2017
Yesterday we had a blast. It's the only way to describe it. What started with a small idea over beer in Seattle by a few genius minds, ended up catering to 1500 participants workwide learning about...
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Make a Group Team Administrator in VSTS/TFS
In case your organisation is depending on an Identity and Access Management tool to assign rights to the tools in the toolchain, then it's likely that all of your permissions are handled through Group...
View ArticleTFS 2018 update 1 is available. So is the TFS Aggregator
Biran Harry just announced the Release to Web of Team Foundation Server 2018 update 1. With mostly bug fixes and a few very small functional features. Luckily it shipped with no breaking changes in the...
View ArticleClean up your Team Project Collection prior to migrating to VSTS
To prepare your TFS Project Collection for migration, you may want to remove (stale) old data to reduce the database size first/Most actions are already documented here. Queries that can aid in...
View ArticleNew versions of TFS/VSTS build tasks
I just pushed out new versions of the following tasks:MsBuild Helper TaskFixed a number of bugs when the Agent's work folder has a space in it somewhere.SnykFixed auto-update of built-in Snyk...
View ArticleFixing Edge, Start Menu and Cortana slowness
I've had issues with my machine for months now and it was very hard to pinpoint the culprit. It resulted in:Start menu freezingCortana/explorer bar search staying black for up to 30 secondsEdge not...
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Disambiguate MSA and AAD accounts
Microsoft is finally closing the loophole that allowed you to create an MSA account (LiveId) with the same unique name as your AAD (Azure Active Directory) account. While it has been very useful in...
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Crafting complex Release Gate conditions in VSTS
A recent addition to VSTS is the ability to run a quick check prior to triggering a release to an environment. These checks can be used to check that there are no new customer complaints, no mad users...
View ArticlePublish your extension to a local TFS Update 2 server
With the availability of extensions for TFS I've been looking for an easy way to publish extensions and their updates to the local marketplace. While I'm sure that Microsoft will at some point...
View ArticlePublish your VSTS extension using Team Build and Release Management
While I've released my VSTS Extension Tasks to GitHub and the Visual Studio Marketplace some time ago, I was reminded that I've never really blogged about it yet. You may wonder what it does. The VSTS...
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A quick peek into Team Foundation Server 15 Preview
Gian Maria Ricci already covered a nice overview of what's new in the install experience of TFS 15 in the latest Preview Release. Let's walk through the new features in the product... though I suspect...
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Solve basic auth proxy issues with Nuget, Visual Studio and Xamarin (hack)
When you're using Visual Studio behind a Basic Authenticaton proxy, you may run into issues restoring Nuget packages. While I've never found a real solution for the issue, and trust me I've tried...
View ArticleForce uninstall Visual Studio 2017 Release candidates
If you, like me, are stuck trying to upgrade Visual Studio 2017, then you may only get unblocked by removing everything and starting afresh. Since Visual Studio 2017 is still in Release Candidate and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Add :8080 to your TFS 2017 bindings after upgrading to SSL
Because TFS 2017 allows authentication with Personal Access Tokens (PAT) it's recommended to upgrade to SSL if you were still on port 80. The installer will even help with the configuration and can...
View ArticleGlobal DevOps BootCamp 2017
Yesterday we had a blast. It's the only way to describe it. What started with a small idea over beer in Seattle by a few genius minds, ended up catering to 1500 participants workwide learning about...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Make a Group Team Administrator in VSTS/TFS
In case your organisation is depending on an Identity and Access Management tool to assign rights to the tools in the toolchain, then it's likely that all of your permissions are handled through Group...
View ArticleTFS 2018 update 1 is available. So is the TFS Aggregator
Biran Harry just announced the Release to Web of Team Foundation Server 2018 update 1. With mostly bug fixes and a few very small functional features. Luckily it shipped with no breaking changes in...
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