Today I published an extension for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) that gives you the ability to add and remove role based access assignments in Azure. VSTS Extension The screenshot below shows the extension. The extension can do two actions: Remove an Azure Role Assignment on a Resource Group. Add an Azure Role…
Today I published an extension for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) that gives you the ability to deploy PowerBI files (pbix) to PowerBI.com. It uses the PowerBI API that has the following operations (at the time of writing this article): Dataset operations: Get and create Datasets. Table operations: Get Tables and update Table schema. Row…
You can think of many situations where you would like to create a self hosted machine for Visual Studio team services (VSTS). Installing and configuring a self hosted machine requires only a few steps. Before you begin make sure the system meets the pre-requisites: Windows 10 and Beyond (64-bit): No known system prerequisites at this time.…
A couple of days ago I started developing extensions for Build and Release pipelines of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). One of these extensions is finished and I wanted to share it with the community. VSTS Extension The extension that I created is a build or release tasks that can be used to extract…
This post is the third and last one in a series of posts and will help you by deploying a CI build for a Azure Function. Prerequisites This blog post is totally written using the Azure Function Visual Studio template. Information and the Azure Function tools download are listed below: Finished Part 2 – Create…
To setup a build in combination with Release Management you need the Release Management build template. This template looks like the default build template but has an additional sequence action to start the release after the build is succeeded. The Release Management Build template can be found within the install location of release management. C:\Program…
In one of my previous post (Configuring Web Site Binding with Release Management) I showed how you can make a custom action for Release Management to configure web bindings. As described in that post Release Management is a tool that provides a continuous deployment solution that makes release cycles repeatable, visible, and more efficient by…
Release Management provides a continuous deployment solution that makes release cycles repeatable, visible, and more efficient by automating deployments through every environment from test to production. Within Release Management you have al large set of default Actions and Components to configure a release cycle. On MSDN you can find a list with some common actions…