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Installing the SQL Server 2012 Native Client with PowerShell DSC
This was a gotcha for me. I finally figured out what the issue was after racking my brain for days. …
Deploy SQL Server 2019 with PowerShell DSC
This is still applicable for deploying SQL Server 2019 with PowerShell DSC onto Windows Server 2019, with and without Desktop …
Visualize your DevOps Workflow
Use a tool to help visualize your DevOps workflow. The tool is from Developer Velocity Lab and can be accessed …
Migration tool assists you in migrating .NET Framework apps to .NET Core
There are two dependencies to run the upgrade assistant. MSBuild The “try-convert” .NET tool The .NET Upgrade Assistant tool also …
Development Team Velocity
Microsoft has a resource now that will help you calculate your Developer Velocity Index. This assessment is designed to help …
Deploy-AzureResourceGroup.ps1 using Az Module in Visual Studio 2019
It’s been a couple months since I wrote my last Azure Resource Manager Template so when I recently when into …
Major AGILE changes to ITIL v4 framework – last modules coming soon
The modules to be released this year are the “ITIL 4 Specialist High-Velocity IT” module and the “ITIL 4 Specialist …
Oracle SQL Developer
Oracle released a database management/development tool which I found to be helpful when working with databases. It can handled a …
Resources for git
I’ve been using git for a little while now and wanted to put together a list of resources that I’ve …
Download Pro Git
Pro Git (Second Edition) is your fully-updated guide to Git and its usage in the modern world. Git has come …
.NET Core 3 finally released
The article ‘Announcing .NET Core 3.0’ was posted on September 23rd, 2019 at the .NET Blog on Microsoft’s DevBlogs. It …
UPDATE – Deploy SQL Server 2017 with PowerShell DSC
The original post for this article was back in 2018 but since then I’ve been deploying SQL Server 2017 on …
The Developer’s Guide to Azure
Another updated version has been released by Microsoft which includes new code samples. This free eBook has new code samples …
Azure VM Images with smaller System Disk
I was trying to deploy managed disks with windows vm’s via ARM template but the default size OS disk is …
New Web Application Firewall (WAF) for Azure Front Door Service
Web Application Firewall (WAF) for Azure Front Door service is now generally available. Customers can use WAF to define security …
Configuring Office 365 via PowerShell Desired State Configuration
We have used Nik Charlebois’ solutions such as ReverseDSC to extract configurations from existing services such as Microsoft SQL Servers …
Add PowerShell user snippet in Visual Studio Code to add comment based help header
I was tired of typing out comment blocks in each of my PowerShell scripts so I decided to create a …
Installing Docker EE on Windows Server 2016 Datacenter
Take advantage of Docker EE on Windows Server 2016. So the C drive doesn’t get filled up with docker images, …
DevOps: The Ops Perspective
eBook by Don Jones.