Tag Archives: Powershell

Using VSTS Package Management as a private Powershell Gallery

May 2, 2017 by Rene van Osnabrugge 1 Comment

For information how to set up a private Chocolatey repository on VSTS check this post Let me start by saying that I really like VSTS package management. Earlier I blogged about Release Views and I also like the integration with the whole build/release eco system. That said, I was quite annoyed when I noticed that I […]

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Package Management, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized, Visual Studio Online
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Trigger Release Pipeline only for Scheduled builds

March 30, 2017 by Rene van Osnabrugge 2 Comments

Currently I am working on some build and release pipelines to deploy some websites automatically. I have some CI builds running, and some scheduled buils that are deployed automatically. This works fine, but there is some waste in the process. My CI build is the same as my scheduled build, with 1 major difference. I do […]

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Build, Release Management, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized
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Copy files (and run tests) on a remote machine back to the VSTS build and release agent

September 27, 2016 by Rene van Osnabrugge 1 Comment

This week I was working on a script, running in my VSTS release pipeline that executed Pester tests on a remote machine. Running Pester tests on the VSTS Build and Release Agent work fine with one the awesome tasks on the Visual Studio Marketplace, but this was about running the tests remotely AND getting the […]

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Build, Release Management, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized
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Trigger a vNext release template from a build definition throws Http Error 500

February 23, 2015 by Rene van Osnabrugge 4 Comments

Last week I was busy with some work on a vNext Release template. When my release worked I wanted to trigger that release from my build definition. Where as in the agent-based Release Management it was a matter of checking a checkbox and using a different Build Template that triggers this release, in the vNext […]

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Release Management, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting
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Start with Visual Studio Release Management vNext–VS RM for Dummies

February 4, 2015 by Rene van Osnabrugge 12 Comments

Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 3 came with Visual Studio Release Management vNext. vNext is, next to the deployments with agents, another way of doing deployments with VSRM. The most important thing in vNext is that you can do deployments to machines, without having to install an agent. This is because VSRM vNext uses Powershell […]

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Articles, DevOps, Release Management
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