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Jun 10, 2019
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DevOps and Your Definition of Done

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DevOps, among other things, is about collaboration, and a shared responsibility for delivering features into production. Your Definition of Done should reflect this. Learn why and how you should explicitly define Done to improve collaboration and quality.

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Jun 8, 2019
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Understanding Your Cloud Adoption Maturity Level

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To be successful an enterprise must address people, process and technology when adopting the cloud. I often witness organizations migrating to Azure focus primarily on the cloud technologies and fail to assess their current maturity readiness.

TeamDevOpsDigital Transformation
Jun 2, 2019
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How to fetch a user’s profile from Azure Active Directory using PowerShell

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On my recent journey helping customers migrate from TFS to VSTS; one of the most common obstacle is verifying that users marked for active import to VSTS have matching AAD records. Thankfully there is a fairly streamlined way to do this using PowerShell and the Azure Graph API.

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May 20, 2019
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Conflicting Principles; DevOps VS ITIL.

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On the surface DevOps and ITIL seem to be contradictory practices, with the former being more used in development work and the latter being more used for services/operations. However, if we drill down into their fundamentals you will find that DevOps cannot exist in its entirety without a framework such as ITIL.

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May 10, 2019
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Building a better DSC script

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For those people that want to build a better DSC script, one that checks for most conditions and wants to keep their custom scripts from failing with no error handling, check out these recommendations.

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Apr 23, 2019
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Using Azure DevOps to Deploy Web Applications to Virtual Machines

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While it’s worth mentioning that hosting web applications using Azure PaaS offerings or via containers would be the preferred route for a variety of reasons, VMs are still widely used in many organizations. With that scenario in mind, this post is geared to helping you get started with streamlining your release process. As a note, much of this proc...

TeamDevOpsAzure DevOps
Apr 20, 2019
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Tips on Starting DevOps Projects

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DevOps uses Agile principles and combines infrastructure, development, QA, and operations engineers together through the entire cycle of software development, deployment, and support, eliminating many of the silos between teams. Most importantly, DevOps improves communication and enables better collaboration, helping enterprises to bring products a...

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Mar 5, 2019
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Accessibility Testing with Azure DevOps Pipelines

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I was recently working with one of my customers to help them improve the usability of their applications as mandated by their IT staff. The goal was to create quality web applications that can be equally useful to all users including those with disabilities. Together, we reviewed many good tools and potential best practices, but we wanted something...

TeamDevOpsAzure DevOps
Jan 21, 2019
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Hosting Python packages in Azure DevOps

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What I wanted to accomplish here was simply to create a redistributable Python package. Also show some of the practices on how to work with Python in a Windows environment, but I could not stop there. I went ahead and built a complete CI/CD pipeline for the package, showing how easy it is and how well Python projects integrate with Azure DevOps.

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Jan 16, 2019
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DevOps and Culture, part 2

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This article is part 2 of DevOps and Culture. See part 1 here. In this entry I’ll discuss how we can think of culture in a systematic way and how we can change it.

TeamDevOpsRon Vincent