In some situations you may want to start using Deployment Slots in combination with your Azure App Service. This means you will have separate deployment slots instead of only the default production slot when running the App Service in Standard or Premium plan mode. Deployment Slots Deployment slots are actually live web apps with their…
Since that Azure uses the Azure Resource Manager you have the ability to setup your own templates for deploying your applications. This can be handy because the infrastructure for your application is typically made up of many components – maybe a virtual machine, storage account, and virtual network, or a web app, database, database server,…
From VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services) your can deploy to a Azure Website directly directly from a build. Setting this up will require a couple of steps. In this blog post I will help you trough these steps. Create New Build Navigate to VSTS within the browser and open the team page where a build…
With the component created in part 2 we can start using it to deploy applications to our SharePoint environment. We start by creating a new template. For this post I assume you already created the release paths and have added the SharePoint servers to Release Management. To create a new template open Release Management and…
In the first part of the series we have adjusted a build template in order to copy content from source control to the drop location after the build. This content can then be used to supply release management with information about the deployment. This functionality will be used to copy a configuration file to the…
Part 1 of this series will instruct how to configure your build server for building SharePoint projects. In Part 2 we will discuss the automatic deploy options. Part 1 of this series is based on the following MSDN article How to Build Office Developer Tools Projects with TFS Team Build 2012. In this article there…
Today the public beta of SharePoint 2010 is released and everyone started blogging about SharePoint 2010. I am still preparing a Virtual Machine because the beta does not fully works on a Windows Server 2008 R2 installation and I had prepared a virtual machine with this operating system. But know back to deploying multiple wsp…
For a current project I had to deploy some generated lists (stp templates) on another version of SharePoint (Dutch version). Because I’m a beginning programmer in SharePoint I didn’t know that that would cause a problem. Deploying generated list files or sites cannot be deployed to a SharePoint environment in another language. I could upload…