Visual Studio Code is becoming one of the tools that you need to use when developing PowerShell scripts. It allows you to debug your scripts. But how do you add parameters for debugging. The upcoming paragraphs will explain how. PowerShell Parameters are common when developing scripts. Most probably they are configured with the Param object. Just like…
In some situations you will look into a current Azure Environment and the setup/governance of it and need to migrate or move resources around. The below script will help you with exporting the Azure resources into a CSV file, from that CSV file you can join the data within Excel to make plans. Script …
Working with Azure Services in different subscriptions means that the Azure Services need to run in different subscriptions. This often occurs when we talk about DTAP environments (Development, Test, Acceptance and Production). Making sure the resources run on different subscriptions can be done by hand but that is very time-consuming task, this is where the…
Within Azure there is a option to change several configuration settings. When working with Deployment Slots this means you have to click a lot within the Azure Portal and that can be a very time consuming operation. The configuration of the Azure App Service can be automated by using PowerShell, for this first example we…
Just before the Christmas Holiday’s I wanted to share some insights with the readers of my blog around Development Cycles and Office365. Development Cycles can also be interpreted as DevOps. Where DevOps is more the culture and practice around the development cycles. According to Wikipedia DevOps can be described as this: “DevOps (a clipped compound…
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…
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…
In many situation you would like to do a offline installation of SharePoint 2013 or you are required to do a offline installation because you do not have a network connection on the server. The prerequisites installer of SharePoint 2013 downloads the requirements directly of the internet. So we will have to make sure this…
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…
Normal warm up scripts for SharePoint open a site object or web object and make a request to that specific site. When you use form based authentication and do not allow anonymous access, you would only warm up the login page. In order to warm up a application form based SharePoint site you would have…
At the moment we are working a lot with PowerShell in combination with SharePoint. Over time we created a lot of usable functions that were not availible within the default SharePoint Module. With these functions we created our own PowerShell Module in order to easily load the function within our PowerShell instance. When you would…