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I’m participating in the “100 Days of DevOps with PowerShell” series over at System Center Central.  My first post went up today about getting started with PowerShell and Team Foundation Server 2013: The first thing you will notice is there are no out-of-the-box TFS cmdlets that ship with Team Foundation  [ Read More ]

Channel 9 Edge Show – DevOps Panel – Tech Ed North America 2014 During Tech Ed 2014 North America,I had the opportunity to be part of a panel of experts on the Channel 9 show Edge, talking about DevOps.  In the 32 minute conversation, we cover the following questions: [02:08]  [ Read More ]

In Orchestrator 2012, you have runbook servers that execute your runbooks. Those runbook servers have throttling limits, that limit the maximum amount of concurrent runbooks that can run on a runbook server. By default, this value is 50, but it can be increased/decreased, depending on your environment. If your primary  [ Read More ]

Let’s face it, now more than ever there is a LOT of data our there, about us, about our customers, about pretty much anything. And this data is being generated faster than ever before.  But the biggest problem is, how do we consume that data? How do we “unlock the  [ Read More ]

Brian Randell and I have been selected to present a pre-conference session at Microsoft Tech Ed 2014 in Houston, Texas.  The pre-cons are on Sunday, May 11th, and are focused, day-long classes covering specific topics. Brian and I are delivering the following: PRC02 | From Code to Release: DevOps for  [ Read More ]

I’m working on rebuilding my local lab environment.  One of the pieces that I need for that environment is an Exchange Server.  I’m not proficient with Exchange, but I figured the installation couldn’t be that bad.  And for the most part it was not.  However, the installation kept failing every  [ Read More ]

This has been an exciting week if you are a Visual Studio or Team Foundation Server user.  Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 both launched on Wednesday, September 12.  Microsoft had a huge launch event in Seattle for it, and even created a new website around the launch,  [ Read More ]