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Speaking at Techorama in May

I am really pleased to be speaking at Techorama again this year. This is a great friendly conference that covers a wide range of subjects. Like last year the conference is in Mechelen, Belgium on the 12 and 13th of May. Hope to see some of you there

Fix for ‘An unexpected error occurred. Close the windows and try again’ error adding Azure subscription to Visual Studio Release Management Tools

In preparation for my Techdays session next month, I have been sorting demos using the various Release Management clients. When I tried to create a release from within Visual Studio using the ‘Release Management tools for Visual Studio I found I could not add my Azure subscriptions. I saw the error ‘An unexpected error occurred. Close the windows and try again’ I could download and import the subscription file, it showed the available storage accounts, but when I pressed save I got the rather unhelpful error ‘Object reference not set to an instance of an object’...

VSO gets ISO 27001 Certification and European Model Clauses

If the reason you have not been using VSO was concern over where it is hosted, then last week Microsoft made an announcement that could ease some of your worries, or at least your legal departments. VSO now has ISO 27001 Certification and European Model Clauses; for more details see Brian Harry’s blog. This added to the fact that since the end of last October you have been able to choose to host your VSO instance in Europe could well make VSO a more compelling option for many organisations who don’t want to have their own TFS servers on premises

Guest post on the Microsoft UK Developers Site on DSC and Release Management prior to Microsoft TechDays event

One of my blog posts has been re-posted on the Microsoft UK Developers blog Resolving the DCS two-step - Release Management vNext deployment This post covers part of what I will be talking about at Microsoft Techdays on the 5th of February . You can register here for this free online event

Speaking at Microsoft Techdays on the 5th of February

On the 5th of February I will be presenting at Microsoft’s online Techdays event. My session is entitled ‘How are you going to deploy that? A look at configuration as code’ “It does not matter what platform you are developing for, you are going to have to deploy your product in the end. Too often in the past the question of deployment has been an afterthought. But it need not be this way, there are tools available that can help with deployment of your code and importantly the provisioning the underlying systems they need too....