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ARM

Join a VM to existing AD Domain using ARM template in Azure Dev Test Lab 17 May 2016
Configure WinRm with ARM template in AzureDevTestLab VM deployment using PowerShell artifact 14 May 2016

Agile

How to bring DevOps practices to legacy applications (#c9d9 - ContinuousDiscussions) 14 May 2016

Azure

Slide Deck - Azure Operations Management Suite 25 Nov 2018
How I built a dashboard in Azure Portal to track Gitflow feature branches 04 Nov 2018
Installing ASP.NET Core Site Extension for Azure App Service Using ARM template 25 Oct 2018
How to enable Azure Hybrid License to save 40% on your Windows License Cost... 18 Oct 2018
Check for security issues in your ARM templates using AzSk 15 Aug 2018
Why enable accelerated Networking in Azure VMs? Perf Test Results... 11 Aug 2018
Using Azure Shell with VSTS Git Repositories and VS Code 07 Aug 2018
30 days of Azure OMS - Going from zero to hero on operations insights 03 Aug 2018
Solved: SQL Server Key Vault Connector: Error code 2058 30 Jul 2018
Automate DevSecOps with CI CD using VSTS... 13 Dec 2017
Integrating VSTS for DevOps with privately hosted Azure App Service 22 Oct 2017
Infrastructure Deployment Pipelines: Deploying Infrastructure in Azure with VSTS 05 Aug 2017
DevOps: Infrastructure As Code (IaC) with Azure 13 Jun 2017
Get all Azure DTL nested resources programmatically with AzureRm PowerShell 04 Jun 2017
DevOps: CI to CD with VSTS course now live! 22 May 2017
Azure Automation - Manage AWS EC2 with Azure Automation Pull Server 07 Mar 2017
Azure Automation - Fix Failing Module Upgrade in Azure Portal 07 Mar 2017
Using VSTS to provision multi server environments in Azure Dev Test Labs 04 Jan 2017
How to troubleshoot failing Artifacts in AzureDevTestLabs 12 Jun 2016
Using VSTS Release Management for Continuous Deployments to AzureDevTestLabs 26 May 2016
Join a VM to existing AD Domain using ARM template in Azure Dev Test Lab 17 May 2016
Configure WinRm with ARM template in AzureDevTestLab VM deployment using PowerShell artifact 14 May 2016
How to move custom images (vhd) between Azure DevTest Labs 10 May 2016
Deploying a new VM in an existing AzureDevTestLab from VSTS 06 May 2016

Azure DevOps

Wish all your Azure DevOps users merry xmas with banner messages! 17 Dec 2018
How I built a dashboard in Azure Portal to track Gitflow feature branches 04 Nov 2018
Installing ASP.NET Core Site Extension for Azure App Service Using ARM template 25 Oct 2018
Provisioning Sitecore environment with Azure DevOps on Azure PaaS 15 Oct 2018
Monitor unhandled exceptions in your VS Marketplace task extensions using Sentry 09 Oct 2018
Continuous build and deployment of Visual Studio extensions using Azure Pipelines 27 Sep 2018
Working with Azure Key vault using NodeJS 18 Sep 2018
GitLab Integration for Azure Pipelines extension 12 Sep 2018

Azure Hybrid Benefit

How to enable Azure Hybrid License to save 40% on your Windows License Cost... 18 Oct 2018

Azure Key vault

Working with Azure Key vault using NodeJS 18 Sep 2018

Azure OMS

Slide Deck - Azure Operations Management Suite 25 Nov 2018

Azure Pipelines

Provisioning Sitecore environment with Azure DevOps on Azure PaaS 15 Oct 2018
Monitor unhandled exceptions in your VS Marketplace task extensions using Sentry 09 Oct 2018
Continuous build and deployment of Visual Studio extensions using Azure Pipelines 27 Sep 2018
Working with Azure Key vault using NodeJS 18 Sep 2018
GitLab Integration for Azure Pipelines extension 12 Sep 2018

AzureAppService

Integrating VSTS for DevOps with privately hosted Azure App Service 22 Oct 2017

AzureAutomation

Azure Automation - Testing PowerShell Runbooks with Pester using Team Services 07 May 2017
Azure Automation - Manage AWS EC2 with Azure Automation Pull Server 07 Mar 2017
Azure Automation - Fix Failing Module Upgrade in Azure Portal 07 Mar 2017

AzureDevTestLabs

Get all Azure DTL nested resources programmatically with AzureRm PowerShell 04 Jun 2017
Using VSTS to provision multi server environments in Azure Dev Test Labs 04 Jan 2017
How to troubleshoot failing Artifacts in AzureDevTestLabs 12 Jun 2016
Using VSTS Release Management for Continuous Deployments to AzureDevTestLabs 26 May 2016
Join a VM to existing AD Domain using ARM template in Azure Dev Test Lab 17 May 2016
Configure WinRm with ARM template in AzureDevTestLab VM deployment using PowerShell artifact 14 May 2016
How to move custom images (vhd) between Azure DevTest Labs 10 May 2016
Deploying a new VM in an existing AzureDevTestLab from VSTS 06 May 2016

AzureSQLDW

How to restore Azure SQL DW GeoBackup across Azure subscriptions.. 24 Jan 2018

Bug2Mail

Create and Update bug by email in TFS 2015 using Bug2Mail Service 29 May 2015

Build

Dump all VSTS variables in Windows or Linux based agents with one line of code 06 Aug 2018
Back to basics: Building static website using Jekyll in VSTS 16 Jul 2018
Back to basics: Building .NET Core app in VSTS 09 Jul 2018
How to organize VSTS build output into separate folders? 17 Mar 2018

BuildPipeline

Chef

HelloWorld Chef on Windows, Knife, Cookbook, IIS, Windows Azure & everything in between... 03 Jul 2017

Chrome

VSTS Status Monitor - A Google Chrome extension to monitor VSTS Status 10 Sep 2017

Continuous Delivery

Continuous Delivery with Team Foundation Server 2015 18 Feb 2016

ContinuousMonitoring

Slide Deck - Azure Operations Management Suite 25 Nov 2018

Dependency Visualizer

MSBuild Dependency Visualizer tool 11 Jan 2016

DevOps

How I built a dashboard in Azure Portal to track Gitflow feature branches 04 Nov 2018
Installing ASP.NET Core Site Extension for Azure App Service Using ARM template 25 Oct 2018
Provisioning Sitecore environment with Azure DevOps on Azure PaaS 15 Oct 2018
Monitor unhandled exceptions in your VS Marketplace task extensions using Sentry 09 Oct 2018
Continuous build and deployment of Visual Studio extensions using Azure Pipelines 27 Sep 2018
Working with Azure Key vault using NodeJS 18 Sep 2018
GitLab Integration for Azure Pipelines extension 12 Sep 2018
Check for security issues in your ARM templates using AzSk 15 Aug 2018
Dump all VSTS variables in Windows or Linux based agents with one line of code 06 Aug 2018
Integrate ServiceNow with VSTS RM pipelines using PowerShell 21 Jul 2018
Back to basics: Building static website using Jekyll in VSTS 16 Jul 2018
Back to basics: Building .NET Core app in VSTS 09 Jul 2018
How to organize VSTS build output into separate folders? 17 Mar 2018
GitHub Issues Release Gate extension for VSTS Release Management 25 Feb 2018
How to restore Azure SQL DW GeoBackup across Azure subscriptions.. 24 Jan 2018
GitHub Issues - As a deployment gate in VSTS Release Management 23 Jan 2018
Automate DevSecOps with CI CD using VSTS... 13 Dec 2017
Integrating VSTS Release Management with ServiceNow using Deployment Gate for Change Management 07 Dec 2017
Integrating VSTS for DevOps with privately hosted Azure App Service 22 Oct 2017
Team Services - Use one build definition to build all branches & release selectively 27 Sep 2017
How to transform Web.Config file 'Properly' with VSTS! 26 Aug 2017
SpecFlow VSTS Build pipeline with SpecRunner For BDD Style Automated Gherkin Functional Tests 26 Aug 2017
Infrastructure Deployment Pipelines: Deploying Infrastructure in Azure with VSTS 05 Aug 2017
HelloWorld Chef on Windows, Knife, Cookbook, IIS, Windows Azure & everything in between... 03 Jul 2017
DevOps: Infrastructure As Code (IaC) with Azure 13 Jun 2017
DevOps: GitHook to verify repository email address 13 Jun 2017
GitHooks with PowerShell on Windows to automate source control operations 03 Jun 2017
Using GitHooks with Visual Studio Team Services on Windows 29 May 2017
DevOps: CI to CD with VSTS course now live! 22 May 2017
Azure Automation - Testing PowerShell Runbooks with Pester using Team Services 07 May 2017
Azure Automation - Manage AWS EC2 with Azure Automation Pull Server 07 Mar 2017
Azure Automation - Fix Failing Module Upgrade in Azure Portal 07 Mar 2017
Using VSTS to provision multi server environments in Azure Dev Test Labs 04 Jan 2017
Replace appsetting tokens in config files with Build & Release Management in VSTS (TFS) 05 Nov 2016
Continuous delivery of Nuget packages to Package Management in TFS15 RC1 14 Aug 2016
TF254027 : Cannot create a binding on port 443 because the specified certificate could not be found 03 Jul 2016
How to troubleshoot failing Artifacts in AzureDevTestLabs 12 Jun 2016
Using VSTS Release Management for Continuous Deployments to AzureDevTestLabs 26 May 2016
How to configure WinRM for HTTPS manually 21 May 2016
Join a VM to existing AD Domain using ARM template in Azure Dev Test Lab 17 May 2016
How to bring DevOps practices to legacy applications (#c9d9 - ContinuousDiscussions) 14 May 2016
Configure WinRm with ARM template in AzureDevTestLab VM deployment using PowerShell artifact 14 May 2016
How to move custom images (vhd) between Azure DevTest Labs 10 May 2016
Deploying a new VM in an existing AzureDevTestLab from VSTS 06 May 2016
SonarQube Analysis in Continuous Integration using Team Build in VSTS 05 May 2016
How to install SonarQube as a windows Service with SQL Server using Windows Authentication for VSTS (Team Build) 05 May 2016
TFS 2015 Machine Groups - Walkthrough 26 Feb 2016
Continuous Delivery with Team Foundation Server 2015 18 Feb 2016
Technical Debt - Why care? How to set up SonarQube to work with TFS using Build Task? 20 Aug 2015
Marry Cloud & DevOps - Enterprise DevOps is for real! 17 Jan 2015

DevOps Book

Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 2 RC 1 - Now Available 11 Feb 2016
ALM and DevOps with Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook 09 Feb 2016

DevSecOps

Check for security issues in your ARM templates using AzSk 15 Aug 2018
Automate DevSecOps with CI CD using VSTS... 13 Dec 2017

Exception

'Value does not fall within the expected range' error while adding toolbar to toolwindow 24 Dec 2015

Extensions

Monitor unhandled exceptions in your VS Marketplace task extensions using Sentry 09 Oct 2018
Continuous build and deployment of Visual Studio extensions using Azure Pipelines 27 Sep 2018
HOWTO: Show notifications inside Visual Studio 29 Mar 2018
GitHub Issues Release Gate extension for VSTS Release Management 25 Feb 2018
VSTS Status Monitor - A Google Chrome extension to monitor VSTS Status 10 Sep 2017
HOWTO: Check browser type and its version in your VSTS/TFS extensions 21 Jul 2017
HOWTO: Copy text to clipboard in VSTS/TFS Extensions 19 Jul 2017
Open sourcing Export/Import Build Definition extension 23 Feb 2017
Extension Download Monitor Widget - Monitor your extension downloads/ratings from VSTS/TFS dashboard 04 Jan 2017
Tag Admin extension is now available for Visual Studio 2017 03 Dec 2016
Export and Import your build definitions in VSTS and TFS between team projects 01 Jul 2016
Export as PDF - VSTS extension to export build definition as PDF 15 Mar 2016
Options for displaying modal dialogs in Visual Studio extensions 27 Jan 2016
'Value does not fall within the expected range' error while adding toolbar to toolwindow 24 Dec 2015
VSO Status Inspector - A walk through on creating a Visual Studio extension to track VSO Status 31 May 2015
Create and Update bug by email in TFS 2015 using Bug2Mail Service 29 May 2015
Visual Studio Online Status Inspector 12 May 2015
HOWTO: Monitor solution events in Visual Studio extensions 10 Jan 2015
Tag Admin extension is now available for Visual Studio 2013 01 Jan 2015
How to open Configuration Manager in Visual Studio extensions 24 Dec 2014
Administer Visual Studio Tags using TagAdmin Visual Studio extension 22 Dec 2014
Better way to load dependent assemblies in your Visual Studio extensions 13 Dec 2014
Using exceptionless to track exceptions in your VS Extension 06 Dec 2014
Link To Work Item – Visual Studio extension to link changeset(s) to work item directly from VS history window 11 Aug 2014
Using progress dialog in Visual Studio extensions 23 May 2014
How to fix build error Invalid command line switch for CreatePkgDef.exe. Can not find the tools for VS SDK 27 Dec 2013
How to open web page in internal browser of Visual Studio 06 Dec 2013
Persisting settings without using Options dialog in Visual Studio 02 Nov 2013
What's new in Team Rooms for Visual Studio 2013 26 Oct 2013
Passing parameters to Visual Studio tool window using IServiceProvider 16 Oct 2013
Issues while extending Team Explorer in Visual Studio 2013 14 Sep 2013
Showing TeamExplorer Navigation Item only when connected to a Team Project 09 Sep 2013
Avanade Extensions - Sprint Burndown Plus Release Notes v1.3.1 13 Aug 2013
Using Visual Studio status bar in your extensions 11 Aug 2013
Listening to tool window events in Visual Studio 03 Aug 2013
Get Assembly Full Name using context menu 27 Jul 2013
Integration with Visual Studio Options Window using custom controls 30 Jun 2013
Developing shell extensions in C# with EZShellExtensions.Net 21 Jun 2013
Loading custom assemblies in Visual Studio extensions 02 Jun 2013
Favorites Menu for Visual Studio 11 May 2013

Git

DevOps: GitHook to verify repository email address 13 Jun 2017

GitHooks

DevOps: GitHook to verify repository email address 13 Jun 2017
GitHooks with PowerShell on Windows to automate source control operations 03 Jun 2017
Using GitHooks with Visual Studio Team Services on Windows 29 May 2017

GitHub

Start blogging with Jekyll, GitHub and Netlify 10 Dec 2018
GitHub Issues Release Gate extension for VSTS Release Management 25 Feb 2018
GitHub Issues - As a deployment gate in VSTS Release Management 23 Jan 2018

IaC

Infrastructure Deployment Pipelines: Deploying Infrastructure in Azure with VSTS 05 Aug 2017
DevOps: Infrastructure As Code (IaC) with Azure 13 Jun 2017

Jekyll

Start blogging with Jekyll, GitHub and Netlify 10 Dec 2018

KeyVault

Solved: SQL Server Key Vault Connector: Error code 2058 30 Jul 2018

Licensing

How to enable Azure Hybrid License to save 40% on your Windows License Cost... 18 Oct 2018

Machine Groups

TFS 2015 Machine Groups - Walkthrough 26 Feb 2016

MsBuild

MSBuild Dependency Visualizer tool 11 Jan 2016

Netlify

Start blogging with Jekyll, GitHub and Netlify 10 Dec 2018

OMS

Slide Deck - Azure Operations Management Suite 25 Nov 2018
30 days of Azure OMS - Going from zero to hero on operations insights 03 Aug 2018

Perf

Why enable accelerated Networking in Azure VMs? Perf Test Results... 11 Aug 2018

Personal

So... how did it feel recording training for Microsoft? 14 Jun 2017
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional 2015 for ALM 01 Jan 2015
I am Microsoft ALM MVP for 2014 03 Apr 2014

Pester

Azure Automation - Testing PowerShell Runbooks with Pester using Team Services 07 May 2017

Pipelines

Provisioning Sitecore environment with Azure DevOps on Azure PaaS 15 Oct 2018
Monitor unhandled exceptions in your VS Marketplace task extensions using Sentry 09 Oct 2018
Continuous build and deployment of Visual Studio extensions using Azure Pipelines 27 Sep 2018
Working with Azure Key vault using NodeJS 18 Sep 2018
GitLab Integration for Azure Pipelines extension 12 Sep 2018

PowerShell

Using Azure Shell with VSTS Git Repositories and VS Code 07 Aug 2018
Integrate ServiceNow with VSTS RM pipelines using PowerShell 21 Jul 2018
How to restore Azure SQL DW GeoBackup across Azure subscriptions.. 24 Jan 2018
Get all Azure DTL nested resources programmatically with AzureRm PowerShell 04 Jun 2017
GitHooks with PowerShell on Windows to automate source control operations 03 Jun 2017

ReleaseGates

GitHub Issues Release Gate extension for VSTS Release Management 25 Feb 2018
GitHub Issues - As a deployment gate in VSTS Release Management 23 Jan 2018
Integrating VSTS Release Management with ServiceNow using Deployment Gate for Change Management 07 Dec 2017

ReleaseManagement

Replace appsetting tokens in config files with Build & Release Management in VSTS (TFS) 05 Nov 2016

ServiceNow

Sitecore

Provisioning Sitecore environment with Azure DevOps on Azure PaaS 15 Oct 2018

SonarQube

SpecFlow

SpecFlow VSTS Build pipeline with SpecRunner For BDD Style Automated Gherkin Functional Tests 26 Aug 2017

TFS

How to configure WinRM for HTTPS manually 21 May 2016
TFS 2015 Machine Groups - Walkthrough 26 Feb 2016

TFS15

Continuous delivery of Nuget packages to Package Management in TFS15 RC1 14 Aug 2016

TFS2015

TF254027 : Cannot create a binding on port 443 because the specified certificate could not be found 03 Jul 2016
Continuous Delivery with Team Foundation Server 2015 18 Feb 2016
Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 2 RC 1 - Now Available 11 Feb 2016
ALM and DevOps with Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook 09 Feb 2016
Create and Update bug by email in TFS 2015 using Bug2Mail Service 29 May 2015
How to compile .NET 2015 Preview projects with TFS 2013 Build 28 Dec 2014

TeamBuild

Using VSTS Release Management for Continuous Deployments to AzureDevTestLabs 26 May 2016

TeamFoundationServer

Tools

Export your GeeksWithBlogs.net blog posts as Markdown files 18 Jun 2016

Training

So... how did it feel recording training for Microsoft? 14 Jun 2017
DevOps: Infrastructure As Code (IaC) with Azure 13 Jun 2017
DevOps: CI to CD with VSTS course now live! 22 May 2017

VSTS

Check for security issues in your ARM templates using AzSk 15 Aug 2018
Using Azure Shell with VSTS Git Repositories and VS Code 07 Aug 2018
Integrate ServiceNow with VSTS RM pipelines using PowerShell 21 Jul 2018
GitHub Issues Release Gate extension for VSTS Release Management 25 Feb 2018
GitHub Issues - As a deployment gate in VSTS Release Management 23 Jan 2018
Automate DevSecOps with CI CD using VSTS... 13 Dec 2017
Integrating VSTS Release Management with ServiceNow using Deployment Gate for Change Management 07 Dec 2017
VSTS Status Monitor - A Google Chrome extension to monitor VSTS Status 10 Sep 2017
HOWTO: Check browser type and its version in your VSTS/TFS extensions 21 Jul 2017
HOWTO: Copy text to clipboard in VSTS/TFS Extensions 19 Jul 2017
DevOps: Infrastructure As Code (IaC) with Azure 13 Jun 2017
DevOps: CI to CD with VSTS course now live! 22 May 2017
Azure Automation - Testing PowerShell Runbooks with Pester using Team Services 07 May 2017
Export and Import your build definitions in VSTS and TFS between team projects 01 Jul 2016
Export as PDF - VSTS extension to export build definition as PDF 15 Mar 2016

VisualStudio

HOWTO: Show notifications inside Visual Studio 29 Mar 2018
Tag Admin extension is now available for Visual Studio 2017 03 Dec 2016
Options for displaying modal dialogs in Visual Studio extensions 27 Jan 2016
MSBuild Dependency Visualizer tool 11 Jan 2016
'Value does not fall within the expected range' error while adding toolbar to toolwindow 24 Dec 2015
VSO Status Inspector - A walk through on creating a Visual Studio extension to track VSO Status 31 May 2015
Visual Studio Online Status Inspector 12 May 2015
HOWTO: Monitor solution events in Visual Studio extensions 10 Jan 2015
Walkthrough: Scheduling jobs using Quartz.net Part 1: What is Quartz.Net? 04 Jan 2015
Tag Admin extension is now available for Visual Studio 2013 01 Jan 2015
How to open Configuration Manager in Visual Studio extensions 24 Dec 2014
Administer Visual Studio Tags using TagAdmin Visual Studio extension 22 Dec 2014
Better way to load dependent assemblies in your Visual Studio extensions 13 Dec 2014
Using exceptionless to track exceptions in your VS Extension 06 Dec 2014
Link To Work Item – Visual Studio extension to link changeset(s) to work item directly from VS history window 11 Aug 2014
Using progress dialog in Visual Studio extensions 23 May 2014
Always open XAML files in full XAML view 20 Apr 2014
How to fix build error Invalid command line switch for CreatePkgDef.exe. Can not find the tools for VS SDK 27 Dec 2013
How to open web page in internal browser of Visual Studio 06 Dec 2013
Persisting settings without using Options dialog in Visual Studio 02 Nov 2013
What's new in Team Rooms for Visual Studio 2013 26 Oct 2013
Passing parameters to Visual Studio tool window using IServiceProvider 16 Oct 2013
Issues while extending Team Explorer in Visual Studio 2013 14 Sep 2013
Showing TeamExplorer Navigation Item only when connected to a Team Project 09 Sep 2013
Avanade Extensions - Sprint Burndown Plus Release Notes v1.3.1 13 Aug 2013
Using Visual Studio status bar in your extensions 11 Aug 2013
Listening to tool window events in Visual Studio 03 Aug 2013
Integration with Visual Studio Options Window using custom controls 30 Jun 2013
Loading custom assemblies in Visual Studio extensions 02 Jun 2013
Favorites Menu for Visual Studio 11 May 2013

WPF

Export your GeeksWithBlogs.net blog posts as Markdown files 18 Jun 2016
Always open XAML files in full XAML view 20 Apr 2014

WinRM

How to configure WinRM for HTTPS manually 21 May 2016
Configure WinRm with ARM template in AzureDevTestLab VM deployment using PowerShell artifact 14 May 2016

Windows Mobile

Review Lumia 930 on Windows 10 Mobile Insider Build 10080 18 May 2015

XAML

Always open XAML files in full XAML view 20 Apr 2014

angularjs

AngularJS and Internet Explorer 9 31 Mar 2015

build

How to compile .NET 2015 Preview projects with TFS 2013 Build 28 Dec 2014

burndown

Avanade Extensions - Sprint Burndown Plus Release Notes v1.3.1 13 Aug 2013

csharp

Get Assembly Full Name using context menu 27 Jul 2013
Subscribe to Windows Explorer close event 29 Jun 2013
Developing shell extensions in C# with EZShellExtensions.Net 21 Jun 2013

dotnet

Get Assembly Full Name using context menu 27 Jul 2013
Subscribe to Windows Explorer close event 29 Jun 2013
Developing shell extensions in C# with EZShellExtensions.Net 21 Jun 2013

ie

AngularJS and Internet Explorer 9 31 Mar 2015

mvc

AngularJS and Internet Explorer 9 31 Mar 2015

quartz.net

Walkthrough: Scheduling jobs using Quartz.net Part 1: What is Quartz.Net? 04 Jan 2015

shell

Get Assembly Full Name using context menu 27 Jul 2013
Subscribe to Windows Explorer close event 29 Jun 2013
Developing shell extensions in C# with EZShellExtensions.Net 21 Jun 2013

windows

Subscribe to Windows Explorer close event 29 Jun 2013

workitem

Link To Work Item – Visual Studio extension to link changeset(s) to work item directly from VS history window 11 Aug 2014

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