May 2020 | Developer Support

Upgrading to the New Work Item Form in Azure DevOps

Premier Developer May 31, 2020 May 31, 2020 05/31/20

This blog post will highlight a case from the field to shed some light on what changes are made to the work item form, also known as the 'Best-effort transformation'. We'll walkthrough a case from the field where the custom work item was very different after upgrade.

Managing Cloud Ready .NET App Secrets in Visual Studio

Premier Developer May 31, 2020 May 31, 2020 05/31/20

Secrets need to be handled with care and this is the responsibility of every developer. We’ve all read those news reports of someone accidently checking a production password into source control only to find out the next day that their credit card has been maxed out.

Power Apps Build Tools for Azure DevOps

Premier Developer May 30, 2020 May 30, 2020 05/30/20

Given the dire need expressed by many of our enterprise customers for a complete ALM and DevOps support in to the Microsoft Power Platform I felt like writing this blog to give a very quick high-level overview of the tool and its capabilities.

Simplified Automated QA Testing on Azure DevOps

Premier Developer May 29, 2020 May 29, 2020 05/29/20

Setting up automated testing can be complex, but I wanted to build out an automated testing system that would be simple to understand and implement, yet cover most of the basic needs of test automation.

Multi-vendor Service Level Agreement (SLA) model based on Business Availability

Premier Developer May 28, 2020 May 28, 2020 05/28/20

App Dev Manager Dipanjan Ghanti shares an example of how to frame a multi-vendor SLA based on business availability. Introduction Enterprises often run business critical applications that are supported by multiple vendors. While each vendor takes responsibility for their component’s availability, the need to tie it up with the ...

Approach for Merging Dynamics CRM Solutions with DevOps implementations.

Premier Developer May 28, 2020 May 28, 2020 05/28/20

How do I merge solutions in CRM? How do I perform feature-based deployment in Dynamics CRM? These are a few frequently asked questions when I am presenting DevOps for CRM talks or asked about my post on “Continuous Integration, Deployment and Test Automation for Dynamics CRM.

Productivity taking a hit lately? Give OMG a try.

Premier Developer May 27, 2020 May 27, 2020 05/27/20

The right productivity software tools can make life much easier. I use Microsoft 365: Outlook for PC for calendar and email, Planner to track work, and MyAnalytics to gain insights. Here are some tips to get organized.

Monitoring & Alerting – Operations in the Cloud

Premier Developer May 26, 2020 May 26, 2020 05/26/20

Application Insights monitors the availability, performance, and usage of your web applications. It provides you with deep insights into your application's operations and diagnose errors without waiting for a user to report them. It gives you the ability to continuously improve performance and usability.

Your Ally in Premier

Premier Developer May 25, 2020 May 25, 2020 05/25/20

As an ADM, I am expected to be that squeaky wheel that is passionate about doing what is right for you, my customer, in the long run. I am on your side and I take pride in helping you grow to be the best that you can be. This often arises in the form of ensuring you and your developers get the best tools and guidance on app modernization.

Migrate SSRS Subscription Owners with PowerShell

Premier Developer May 24, 2020 May 24, 2020 05/24/20

You may find that after you move the content that subscription owners are automatically set to the account used to perform the migration. There is an API you can use to assign a new owner and scripts to list subscriptions owners, but I if you have to do this for a large number of servers, it can be a lot of work.

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