Thursday, May 26, 2016

Troubleshooting the dreaded "The build directory of the test run either does not exist or access permission is required." error message in Microsoft Test Manager

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Our company is starting to use the Microsoft Test Manager a lot more to manage our testing, both manual and automated. Additionally, we'...
Monday, May 02, 2016

Migrating code in TFS from one Team Project to another Team Project within the same Team Project Collection

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My company has frequently had the issue of moving code around within the same Team Project Collection as shifting desires and motivations fo...
Saturday, April 16, 2016

Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'https://localhost:xxxxx' is therefore not allowed access

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While developing an adal.js app with OData in IISExpress, I'm getting the following error: Response to preflight request doesn't p...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Using ADAL.js correctly with AngularJS when setting up your endpoints

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When searching around and using the tutorials on how to correctly use adal.js to authenticate your calls to Web API (or anything else) in Az...
Monday, April 04, 2016

Creating your own repository for PowerShell modules

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Apparently it's quite easy, according to Microsoft . All you need is a slightly tweaked NuGet repository.
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Running and debugging Azure WebJobs locally on your development machine

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Check out this article:  https://github.com/Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk/wiki/Running-Locally It shows you how to locally run and debug Azure W...

Updating your Azure AD Application Manifest

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We've recently found that as we develop more applications in Azure, we need to put safeguards on the deployment of the applications to e...
Sunday, February 28, 2016

Properly invoking scheduled WebJobs

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Recently we've found the need to start using Scheduled Azure WebJobs. However, the examples out there are all gargbage, even in the case...

Continuous Delivery of Azure Web Services

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See this: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-dotnet-continuous-delivery/
Sunday, February 21, 2016

Debugging Azure web apps on localhost

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To get this working, you need to have an app registered with your localhost app root registered for the redirect URI and login URI. Here...

Using adal.js and getting error AADSTS65001: The user or administrator has not consented to use the application with ID '....'

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It turns out that you have to actually go in and give your javascript web client permissions to access the web api application in the Azure ...

Using adal.js and getting error AADSTS70005: response_type="token" not supported

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I've recently started using adal.js with OData in an AngularJS 1.5 application and been getting this error with attempting to connect my...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Getting CORS requests working in Web API 2

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I've just recently started playing with using adal.js to connect to Azure Active Directory for authentication so that I can set up an An...
Friday, February 12, 2016

Getting the Active Directory cmdlets (for scripted and remote management of your Windows Server machines)

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To get the cmdlets, you'll need to install the Remote Server Administration Tools, available here . Alternatively, you can follow the ...
Monday, February 08, 2016

How to move a shelveset from one branch to another in TFS

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You're going to have to start by installing the TFS PowerTools for TFS 2013 (or whatever version is appropriate for you). Once you have ...
Friday, January 22, 2016

Retrieving the list of Service Principals in your Azure subscription(s)

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Recently I found that I needed to grant certain users permissions in my applications, specifically I needed to put Service Principals into g...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Enabling manipulation of Azure Active Directory groups through Web Applications via the Azure Graph SDK

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In your application(s) (plural if you're using a web / native application delegating to a Web Services API which is doing the actual wor...
Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Getting the SQL Server PowerShell tools

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They're apparently not that easy to find. The SQL Server PowerShell Tools come as part of the SQL Server Feature Pack for their respecti...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Querying PowerShell for module and cmdlet information

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I've recently realized that it's of incredible benefit to start designing our systems such that they're open and easily queryabl...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Accessing TFS via PowerShell

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I'm ashamed to admit that only today did I find out that there are PowerShell cmdlets for TFS. You can load them into a PowerShell ses...