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Deploy a Jenkins Docker VM in Azure

2016-11-08T14:03:00.001+01:00

Azure provides a lot of VM templates which enables you to quickly create and configure a machine matching with your needs.

In this tuto, you are going to setup a VM with a Jenkins services hosted in a Docker container.

Time : 20 minutes

Prerequisites :

Putty
Azure subscription

1. Connect to Azure management Portal (https://portal.azure.com)

2. Select Jenkins docker template and click on "Create" button

3. Fill in the configuration form. You can generate a SSH key with PuttyGen or any other tool or you can just type a password.

4. Select the machine type

5. You can configure advanced features if required, else, click OK

6. You're almost done, click ok. It will take a few minutes to Azure to provision the VM

7. Once the VM is created, you can retrieve its public IP. By default, a Jenkins server is configured to be accessed through ports 8080 and 22

Copy the public IP

8. Open a web browser and type the Jenkins url like http://12.123.12.123:8080

9. You should get this page

10. Now we should get the Administrator password. It is not the one you entered when creating the VM. It is another hosted in the VM file system.

11. Open Putty and initiate a connection to this machine

12. You will be prompted for your credentials. Enter the credentials configured when creating the machine.

13. You are now connected !

14. Let's find the admin password now ! Since you are on a Docker VM, you need to get root access to find the file.

15. Run this command and set a root password

sudo passwd root

16. Connect as root

su -

17. Now your prompt should look like that :

18. find / -name 'initialAdminPassword'

19. You should get the path of the initial admin password file

20. Open it with nano

21. You're done ! Go back to the Jenkins page on your Web browser and enter this code.

22. At this step, you should feel like a hacker! Install the suggested plugins

23. At the end of Jenkins config, create the admin user

24. Well done! Your Jenkins is ready!

How to add a Jenkins Build in VSTS?

2016-11-08T13:40:00.001+01:00

Prerequisites:

Jenkins server available and configured

Create VSTS with Git Source control

2. The project is created! Then, go to build and create a new build definition

3. Select the Jenkins Build Template

4. Here you can select from which source control this build definition will be connected. Select the Git Source control from your VSTS team project. Select the master branch

5. Now, we've got 2 main steps in the build. The first queue the build on your Jenkins server. The second download the results and save them to the VSTS staging directory

6. Now we need to connect to a Jenkins Endpoint. If no endpoints has been registered yet, click on "Manage"

7. A new tab is going to be opened. In the "New Service Endpoint" Drop down list, select Jenkins

8.Enter the following parameters:

http://52.169.74.152:8080/

9.Go back to the build setup and refresh the service Enpoint drop down

10. It should now display the newly created Jenkins Endpoint

11. Then, enter a job name. This job will be the one queued in Jenjins by the build definition

12. Optional : You can send parameters to the Jenkins Job is needed

13. Configure the Download artifacts step with the Same Endpoint and Job name.

14. Save everyhing and your build definition is ready !

15. Once your build definition has been saved, you can queue a New Build

Remarks:

If no code has been uploaded to the source control, the build may fail

TFS 2010 Version numbers

2014-05-15T11:34:00.001+02:00

Preparing a migration to TFS 2013, I was looking for the current version of TFS 2010.

This is the list of TFS 2010 versions:

10.0.30319.1 - TFS 2010 RTM
10.0.40219.1 - TFS 2010 with Service Pack 1
10.0.40219.371 - TFS 2010 with Service Pack 1 and Cumulative Update 2

[Dynamics AX Retail] Cannot proceed to catalog publishing because channel has not been published successfully. Channel publishing status: Failed. Status message: 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object.'

2014-03-14T11:24:00.001+01:00

I faced this issue while installing the retail online storefront on my dev machine. To fix it, perform the following steps (in this order !)

1. Retail -> OnlineChannel -> "your channel"

2. Edit

3. In the top ribbon, click on Setup -> Distribution locations

4. Ensure that the distribution location form is properly filled in

5. Then, functions -> Test connection

6. {The following pop up should be displayed}

7. Go back to the distribution location form and click Functions->Send Configuration

8. The following pop up should appear indicating that the configuration has been pushed to the sync service

9. Close distribution locations form

10. Go back to online channel screen

11. Click on channel->Publish

12. The publishing status of the channel should be set from "draft" to "In Progress"

13. Go back to the retail area page

14. Run Periodic -> Data distribution -> Create Actions job (and click ok)

15. Then, Periodic -> Data distribution -> distribution schedule

16. Select the job N-1075_OC

Ensure that the distribution location list is properly setup. If it is empty, no data will be synchronized to the retail database…

17. Run the job N-1075_OC (Click Run Directly)

18. On the DB Server where the retail database is deployed, open SQL Server Management Studio and run the following query

SELECT *

FROM [SyncServiceMsg].[dbo].[IncomingMessages]

ORDER BY PackageNo desc

This query displays the list of job queued on the retail database. The latest job should be N-1075_OC

19. Now, on the SharePoint machine, open a powershell prompt and type the following script.

I consider here that the RetailPublishing job is properly deployed on your machine and runs every minutes.

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell

$maxHistory = 1;

$job = Get-SPTimerJob | Where { $_.Name -eq "RetailPublishingJob"}

$i = 1;

foreach($hist in $job.HistoryEntries)

{

$hist

$i++

if($i -gt $maxHistory)

{

break

}

The result should be something like this:

The file does not contain valid publish settings for Windows Azure

2012-11-27T15:45:00.001+01:00

Today, while trying to add a new Azure Cloud Service Project, I got an error when configuring my Azure profile. The message told me that the profile file freshly downloaded from Azure website was invalid and cannot be used in the Azure Project…

I’ve found in the Azure Tools 1.8 release not that the publishingsettings profile schema has been updated in this release and if your Azure website has been created with a previous release, the publishing profile file cannot be used in a 1.8 Azure project…

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ff683673.aspx#BK_October2012

“The format of .publishsettings files have changed with this release. You can't use an earlier version of the Windows Azure Tools to open a .publishsettings file that was created with the 1.8 version. You can use the 1.8 version to open .publishsettings files that were created with earlier versions of the tools. You can determine whether a .publishsettings file uses the new format by opening it in a text editor and looking for the SchemaVersion element. If the file contains the element<SchemaVersion="2.0">, the file is in the 1.8 format. If you try to use an earlier version to open a file that's in the 1.8 format, the file fails to open, and the following error message appears: The file File.publishsettings does not contain valid publish settings for Windows Azure.”

Solution:

- Create a new Azure Website

- Enter the profile parameters manually instead of using the publishing profile file.

Hope this helps !

Get Active Directory Group Members with PowerShell

2012-11-16T16:13:00.001+01:00

I’ve not blogged for quite a while. Let’s come back with a small PowerShell script for retrieving Active Directory Group Members.

The bellow scripts retrieve all the Active Directory groups in a specific OU and count the number of members.

Import-Module ActiveDirectory

$groups = Get-ADGroup -searchbase "OU=MyOU,DC=myDC,DC=net" -filter *

$myArray = @()

foreach($g in $groups)

{

                $members = Get-ADGroupMember($g)

                $myObject = New-Object System.Object

                $myObject | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name Name -Value $g.Name

                $myObject | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name Count -Value $members.Length
            
$myArray += $myObject

}

$myArray

How to enable kerberos authentication on your SharePoint Website

2012-06-20T18:29:00.001+02:00

Open the central admin website

Go to web application management, select your website and click on authentication providers

Select the provider you want to modify

Change the NTLM to Negotia (Kerberos) authentication mode

Run inetmgr, select your website and configure the authentication providers

Right click on Windows Authentication and select providers

Add the Negociate:Kerberos authentication mode to the list of enabled providers

Move the Negociate:Kerberos provider to the top of the list

Right click on Windows Authentication and select advanced settings

In the extended protection drop down list, select "Accept" and check the "Enable Kernel-mode" authentication checkbox

Now, you can connect to the website using kerberos authentication !

PowerGUI Error : Microsoft SharePoint is not supported with version 4.0.30319.1 of the Microsoft .Net Runtime

2012-03-09T14:51:00.001+01:00

I’m used to work with PowerGUI script editor for developing Powershell scripts for SharePoint 2010. This time, after updating PowerGUI with version 3.2.0.2237 and running a SharePoint cmdlet, I got this error:

“Microsoft SharePoint is not supported with version 4.0.30319.1 of the Microsoft .Net Runtime."

After investigations, this issue is caused by PowerGUI itself. To fix it, open the ScriptEditor.exe.config file placed in the PowerGUI installation directory. Remove of comment this line:

Restart the script editor and everything works again !

HTTP Error 500.21 - Internal Server Error Handler "PageHandlerFactory-Integrated" has a bad module "ManagedPipelineHandler" in its module list

2012-03-02T17:25:00.000+01:00

I just deployed a brand new .Net 4 website in IIS on my machine and get this error:

It seems that some .Net 4 modules have not been installed properly on this machine…

I managed to fix the issue quickly by running those two commands:

%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -i

%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -i

TFS Azure Preview

2012-02-28T18:39:00.000+01:00

I’ve been waiting for a TFS Azure Preview invitation code a few days and it finally came to my mailbox. After playing a couple of hours with, my first impressions are more than good ! The cloud features are almost the same as the on premise version. The web portal is friendly and smooth as the upcoming release of TFS. Using the cloud for that kind of usage could be really valuable (availability, safety, on-demand !).

I have not seen communications regarding the future pricing of this Azure feature yet. But I’m pretty sure that it would interest a lot of developers !

If you want to test the preview, you can register on this site: http://tfspreview.com

You will receive an email from the MSFT team in a week giving you an registration code and 5 other codes for your friends.

Enjoy !

How to add SharePoint snapin to Power GUI script editor

2012-02-10T16:17:00.001+01:00

1. Open Power GUI script editor

2. Select: Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell

3. Now, you can use PowerShell intellisense on SharePoint module !

How to generate a self-signed certificate from IIS

2012-02-06T10:44:00.001+01:00

For test purposes, it is sometime useful to generate a dummy certificate on your test environment. You can do that by using different ways:

- Create a certificate request and send it to a trusted Certifcate Autority (verisign, thawte etc.).

- Create a Domain certificate. To do that, you will need to setup a Certificate Autority on your domain.

- Create a self signed certificate. IIS has the ability to generate a had oc certificate on your machine. Note that this certificate will only be known and trusted on your machine. For example, you cannot use it over the web to sign your production website.

Here is the procedure to generate a self-signed certificate on IIS 7.x:

1. run inetmgr command

2. Go to the server level and select Server Certificates

3. On the right panel, click on Create Self-Signed Certificate.

4. specify a frendly name for your certificate

5. {Your certificate is beeing signed by your machine and placed in the personal certificate store on your machine}

Now your certificate can be now used on your machine !

Disable IE Enhanced Security Configuration (IE ESC)

2012-02-03T16:54:00.001+01:00

Most of the time, developers are working on a server system such as Windows Server 2008 R2. Server operating systems restrict usage exclusively for the deployed roles. By default, internet explorer is clamped and does not provide a full web experience. For example, you cannot download a file from the web.

To fix this annoying issue, go to the server manager and follow those steps:

To configure IE ESC back:
Close all instances of Internet Explorer.
Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Server Manager.
If a User Account Control dialog box appears, click Continue.
Under Security Summary, click Configure IE ESC.
Under Administrators, click On (Recommended).
Under Users, click On (Recommended).
Click OK.
To disable IE ESC, click Off for both Administrators and Users, and then click OK

SharePoint 2010 Cumulative Updates List

2011-07-01T00:48:00.001+02:00

This page from technet list the SharePoint 2010 cumulative updates:

SharePoint 2010 - Updates, Cumulative Updates, Patches | TechNet

Visual Studio Performance Testing

2011-06-24T16:44:00.001+02:00

This document asset from codeplex gives a complete overview of Visual Studio performance testing capabilities !

Visual Studio Performance Testing Quick Reference Guide - Download: VS Performance Testing Quick Reference V3.6

Enjoy ;-)

Let's try office 365 !

2011-06-17T23:08:00.001+02:00

Office 365 is free for beta test here !

Connecting Lync client to OCS 2007 R2

2011-06-17T22:52:00.002+02:00

Today, I've installed the brand new Lync client on my machine. But when I tried to connect to an OCS 2007 R2 server, I got an error telling that Lync is not compatible with OCS 2007.

I found the solution on this blog.

I just had to add this key in the registry base:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Communicator
Name: DisableServerCheck
Type: DWORD
Value: 1 (00000001)

Enjoy ;-)

Start/Stop a SharePoint 2010 Service Application

2011-03-30T20:42:00.001+02:00

Sometimes, it can be useful and more efficient to handle Sharepoint Service applications using Powershell.
The following script can be used for starting or stopping a service application instance.

A Sharepoint Service application is running behind a service application instance. This instance represents the service application on the whole Sharepoint Farm.
Stopping the instance will stop the related service application on all the servers in the farm.

First of all, we need to get all the service instances running on the farm:

Get-SPServiceInstance

From the list, select your service instance GUID and copy it.
For stopping the service instance, you just need now to run the Stop-SPServiceInstance command:

Stop-SPServiceInstance -Identity "YourServiceGUID"

Type "Y" when prompted.

Start-SPServiceInstance can be used using the same manner for starting the service again.

Attach Visual Studio to an application using Powershell

2011-03-30T20:39:00.000+02:00

This script can be used to run the Visual Studio just in time debugger for debugging your website. It gets the name of the application pool running the website and then attach the JIT to the w3wp process.

$filter = "*MyWebsite*"

$w3wp = get-WmiObject Win32_Process -Filter "Name='w3wp.exe'"
$prid = $w3wp | where { $_.CommandLine -like $filter }

c:\Windows\System32\vsjitdebugger.exe -p $prid.ProcessId

SharePoint 2010 Technical Diagrams

2011-01-03T18:30:00.001+01:00

This link gives you the list of all of the Sharepoint 2010 technical diagrams !

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263199.aspx

Official Sharing Buttons on Blogger

2010-12-21T22:00:00.000+01:00

Today, I tried to add the blogger official share buttons on my blog. Just after adding them to my blog, they were not visible.
This blog gives you the fix to apply to the HTML code of your page:
http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2010/06/official-sharing-buttons-on-blogger.html

Windows PowerShell Tips

2010-12-20T22:21:00.001+01:00

Accessing Values in an Array
Byte Conversion
Calculating Text File Statistics
Creating Custom Tables
Displaying Version Properties of a Group Policy Object
Even More Things You Can Do With Arrays
Formatting Dates and Times
Formatting Numbers
Fun Things You Can Do With the Get-ChildItem Cmdlet
Image Mapping API 2.0 Downloads
Modifying Message Colors
Modifying a Read-Write Property Using Get-WMIObject
Reading Text Files
Referencing Variables and Variable Values
Removing Items From Arrays
The String’s the Thing
Three Things You Might Not Know About Windows PowerShell Functions
Using Windows PowerShell “Here-Strings”
Using the Range Operator in Wildcard Queries
What Is (and What Isn’t) in Our Array?
Windows PowerShell Tip: Adding a Simple Menu to a Windows PowerShell Script
Windows PowerShell Tip: Automatic Script Writing Using Get-History
Windows PowerShell Tip: Creating Formatted HTML Output
Windows PowerShell Tip: Creating a Custom Input Box
Windows PowerShell Tip: Creating a Graphical Date Picker
Windows PowerShell Tip: Creating and Modifying Environment Variables
Windows PowerShell Tip: Determining the Size of a Folder
Windows PowerShell Tip: Displaying a Message in the Notification Area
Windows PowerShell Tip: Filtering Collections With Regular Expressions
Windows PowerShell Tip: Finding All the Empty Folders in a Directory Tree
Windows PowerShell Tip: Formatting Numbers and Dates Using the CultureInfo Object
Windows PowerShell Tip: Getting Information About the Logged-On User
Windows PowerShell Tip: Getting Rid of a COM Object (Once and For All)
Windows PowerShell Tip: Listing the TrueType Fonts Installed On Your Computer
Windows PowerShell Tip: Making Progress
Windows PowerShell Tip: More Fun with Dates (and Times)
Windows PowerShell Tip: Multi-Select List Boxes – And More!
Windows PowerShell Tip: Press Any Key to Continue
Windows PowerShell Tip: Running Windows PowerShell Scripts Against Multiple Computers
Windows PowerShell Tip: Running Windows PowerShell Scripts Against Multiple Computers: Part 2
Windows PowerShell Tip: Selecting Items From a List Box
Windows PowerShell Tip: Taking Things (Like File Paths) Literally
Windows PowerShell Tip: Three Things You Might Not Know About Windows PowerShell Functions
Windows PowerShell Tip: Using Calculated Properties
Windows PowerShell Tip: Using Test-Path to Verify the Existence of an Object
Windows PowerShell Tip: Using the Switch Statement
Windows PowerShell Tip: Working With Custom Objects
Windows PowerShell Tip: Working With SIDs
Windows PowerShell Tip: Working With Security Descriptors
Working with Hash Tables

From: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692948.aspx

Remove duplicates using Powershell

2010-12-11T23:39:00.001+01:00

This is a quick powershell script for removing duplicates files from a folder.
I used it for removing duplicates from my music library.

It is simply listing all the duplicates files from a directory and copy them to a back up folder.

$musicFolder = "c:\MyFolder"
$backupFolder = "c:\Backup"

echo "Get duplicates"
$dupmusics = ls $musicFolder -recurse | Group-Object Length, LastWriteTime | Where { $_.Count -gt 1 }

if($dupmusics.Length -gt 0)
{
echo "Move duplicates"
$dupmusics = $dupmusics | ForEach-Object { $_.Group[1..$_.Group.Count] } | Move-Item -Destination $backupFolder -Verbose
}
else
{
echo "no duplicates found"
}

Get signed Assembly public key token

2010-04-01T15:20:00.001+02:00

This is the command to retrieve the public Token from a signed assembly.

Open Visual Studio command prompt and type:

sn -T myAssembly.dll

Microsoft (R) .NET Framework Strong Name Utility Version 3.5.30729.1

Public key token is d3b94d901eb0200f

An error occurred when verifying security for the message

2010-03-31T10:52:00.001+02:00

Yesterday, I got a strange error while connecting to a WCF service.
This issue was caused because the time of my client and the service did not match... I adjusted the time between the service and then it was working again :P