Tag Archives: visual studio

Building a simple release pipeline for ARM templates

Posted on 08/11/2017 by Marcel Zehner

Using release pipelines is a pretty common thing for agile developers, but not necessarily for IT Pros. However, they can still very much benefit from that process when working with their IT pro artefacts such as scripts, ARM templates, runbooks, … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged ARM, IaC, release pipeline, template, templates, visual studio, vsts | 1 Comment

Use Github for your Visual Studio projects

Posted on 27/03/2017 by Marcel Zehner

Depending on the projects I’m working on i either use VSO/TFS or Github. While VSO/TFS integration is part of Visual Studio, Github is not. But there is an add-on available that allows you to enable Github integration into Visual Studio. … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged dev, development, git, github, open source, oss, Source Control, visual studio, vs | Leave a comment

Speaking at Microsoft Technical Summit 2016

Posted on 03/12/2016 by Marcel Zehner

It’s only a few days until I speak at the largest technical Microsoft conference in Germany. The conference runs from December 6-8 in Darmstadt and I was invited to present my famous “Tesla Management” session.

Posted in Events/Speaking | Tagged azure automation, cortana, log analytics, oms, operational insights, operations manager, PowerBI, powershell, scom, tesla, tesla management 360, vehicle, visual studio | Leave a comment

Azure Resource Policies – a complete walkthrough

Posted on 28/09/2016 by Marcel Zehner

When companies use Azure to deploy and use resources, they should use strict guidelines to safeguard their subscriptions and keep the quality at a high level. They need to make sure that resources are placed in the correct resource groups, … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged ARM, azure resource manager, azure resource policy, condition, Control, effect, if, json, then, visual studio | 8 Comments

GitHub Source Control for your Visual Studio projects

Posted on 17/05/2016 by Marcel Zehner

In my last post I explained how you can use GitHub as a platform for Azure Automation runbook versioning and source control. Another tool IT Pros (like myself) use more and more is Visual Studio. This article walks you through … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged Control, git, github, source, tfs, Versioning, visual studio, vso | Leave a comment

GitHub Source Control for your Azure Automation Runbooks

Posted on 14/05/2016 by Marcel Zehner

If you work with Automation you might know that you will only be successful when following crystal clear developlent guidelines and processes. One important factor to keep in mind – especially in larger projects with many involved automation engineers – … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, DevOps | Tagged azure automation, consistency, git, github, runbooks, source contol, tfs, visual studio, vso | 2 Comments

SCSM QuickVids for “SCSM 2012/2012R2 Authoring” – Video 1: Preparing the dev environment #SCSM

Posted on 16/02/2014 by Marcel Zehner

Howdy! I just started with a new Concept called “QuickVids”. There are lots of good posts out there how to deal with Service Manager, how to do and configure things. I thought that having videos that explain things might be … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM | Tagged authoring, authoring extensions, authoring tool, key, key pair, quickvids, sn, sn.exe, snk, visual studio, vsae | 3 Comments

Visual Studio Authoring Extensions (VSAE) – Part 3: Creating Views by using Snippet Templates

Posted on 09/01/2013 by Marcel Zehner

VSAE offers multiple options to create views. You could use the View template or an empty Management Pack Fragment template. For this example however, I decided to use a snippet template to demonstrate how this can be used to create … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM | Tagged authoring, authoring extensions, customization, snippets, visual studio, vs, vsae | 5 Comments

Visual Studio Authoring Extensions (VSAE) – Part 2: Creating a Folder with a custom Image

Posted on 04/01/2013 by Marcel Zehner

In part 2 of this VSAE series I will demonstrate how to create folders with custom images to the Management Pack to have a container ready for creating views later on. Make sure you take a look at the other … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM | Tagged authoring extensions, authoring tool, mp, mpb, visual studio, vs, vsae, xml | 7 Comments

Visual Studio Authoring Extensions (VSAE) – Part 1: Creating a new CI Class

Posted on 03/01/2013 by Marcel Zehner

I decided to do a VSAE series that explains how to use the Visual Studio Authoring Extensions to extend and customize Service Manager. This is indeed an excellent extension when Visual Studio is your Service Manager authoring tool! If it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM | Tagged authoring extensions, authoring tool, mp, mpb, visual studio, vs, vsae, xml | 19 Comments