Musings on ALM and Software Development Processes

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In my original blog post on enabling Azure Active Directory integration for an MVC application I...

Author: Jeff Levinson (p) Date: 02/25/2015

Release Management and DSC

This is the second post in a series. The first post can be found here. In this post we’ll look at...

Author: Jeff Levinson (p) Date: 11/21/2014

Release Management as a Service

This post provides a quick overview of the Release Management Service (in Preview) just announced on...

Author: Jeff Levinson (p) Date: 11/16/2014

Azure Mobile Services prompts you for a username and password

So you’ve built and deployed your first Azure Mobile Service. Awesome! then you get prompted for a...

Author: Jeff Levinson (p) Date: 10/23/2014

PowerShell DSC for DevOps and ALM v1.0 released

I’m excited to add to the fanfare that the first set of ALM Ranger Guidance for PowerShell DSC has...

Author: Jeff Levinson (p) Date: 10/16/2014

Outputting WADL for API Management from a Web API Service

I created a new set of services in Azure Mobile Services (this is specific to AMS) and tried to...

Author: Jeff Levinson (p) Date: 09/17/2014

CORS and Azure API Management

I was working on publishing an API via Azure Mobile Services and I wanted to manage it with API...

Author: Jeff Levinson (p) Date: 09/15/2014

Integrating an MVC application with Azure Active Directory (Visual Studio 2013)… and being able to deploy it

Things have changed a little between Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013. I had not used this...

Author: Jeff Levinson (p) Date: 09/09/2014

Unit Testing MDX

I was recently asked if it was possible to do some smoke testing on new deployments of SQL Server...

Author: Jeff Levinson (p) Date: 08/31/2014

Can’t connect to SQL Server Analysis Services 2014 with Excel 2013

Recently I installed Excel 2013 with SP1 on a clean Windows 8.1 machine and tried to connect to an...

Author: Jeff Levinson (p) Date: 07/16/2014

Release Management Update 2 fails

If you are using the out of the box Release Management build templates with Team Foundation Server...

Author: Jeff Levinson (p) Date: 07/03/2014