Tag: IT

Azure Web Apps - beware the phantom deployment slots As I've mentioned in previous posts, we use Octopus Deploy to handle our deployments on-prem and to Azure. Last week I was doing some maintenence and decided to update some...
Visual Studio Application Insights - a few months on Several months ago I spent some time looking at Application Insights, which at the time was part of the Visual Studio family of tools and services. Well as we've seen before,...
An introduction to Azure Functions If you already know about WebJobs, Azure Functions can be seen as an evolution, bringing with it quicker setup, easier management, and a lot more functionality. For those of...
Visual Studio Application Insights - getting your money's worth out of the free plan In my introduction to Visual Studio Application Insights, I covered the basics including your options to get up and running with real metrics in minutes. Today I want to touch...
Visual Studio Application Insights - An overview Have you heard of Application Insights? It's a great tool to give you a precise look at the activity and issues in your web apps and services. After setting it up, you can use...
iPhone tethering - instant disconnection of client Today one of our users grabbed me for a bit of help with their company issued iPhone and laptop. For months they have been unable to tether their laptop to their iPhone and...
Migrating SharePoint to the cloud For well over 10 years we've been running SharePoint on premises. It all started with SharePoint Team Services back in 2002-2003 and from there we've been through all major...
Octopus Deploy: Where we are today A lot of our web apps are hosted across multiple nodes and each environment sits behind a multi-node load balancer that handles the distribution of incoming requests. For a...
Octopus Deploy - .NET deployment mastered If there's one standout tool I've discovered this year it has to be Octopus Deploy. I can't stress enough the hours this one product now saves us in our development cycle....
Windows 10 RSAT now available to download If you are an IT Pro and have been holding off your Windows 10 upgrade until Microsoft released a compatible RSAT kit your wait is now over. True to their word, today...