Electric Head

Office365

Missing E-mail? Use Office 365? Read this.

Missing mail delivered to Office 365? Have you checked quarantine?

new-year

Happy July 4, 2020

Brian welcomes part 2 of 2020 with some good news.

Azure DevOps

Azure Pipelines Deep Dive

Here's some links from my workshop on June 3, 2020. Thanks for coming! Create an Azure DevOps Organization Azure DevOps Admin Getting Started Create an Azure DevOps Team Project Build, test, and deploy .NET Core apps - docs Microsoft Hosted Agent Information Info on What's Installed on Agents Azure Pipeline

vslive

VSLIVE 2020 Las Vegas GitHub HOL

Mickey Gousset and I will be delivering a hands-on lab (HOL) at VSLIVE 2020 Last Vegas on Sunday, March 1, 2020. You must provide your own laptop computer (Windows or Mac) for this hands-on lab. Experience with C# coding and basic SQL Server knowledge required. Each attendee will need the

Azure DevOps

Live 360! Two-Day HOL Pre-workshop Config

Sunday & Monday, November 17 & 18, 2019, will find myself and my buddy Phil Japikse in sunny Orlando, FL, delivering a two-day hands-on lab Building Modern ASP.NET Core Web Apps the Right Way with Azure DevOps in Two Days. You can find all details here. In order to

speaking

VSLive! 2019 San Diego Workshop Details

Everything you need to know for the hands-on Azure DevOps workshop at VSLive! 2019 San Diego

speaking

VSLive! 2019 Boston Workshop Details

VSLive! 2019 Boston HOL Setup Notes

Windows 10

Staying Current with Windows 10-2019 Update

As I sit here in 2019 working, I'm updating a variety of real and virtual machines. And due to a number of issues (Native VHD boot aka "boot to VHD"), I'm still running older versions of Windows 10 and Server 2016. Thankfully, I'm not still running Windows XP. But I

DevOps

Azure DevOps, Public Projects, and Pipelines

Azure DevOps brings freedom to your OSS builds and releases!

vslive

Learn Lots in Las Vegas—VSLive! March 2018

As I get back to work after the core bit of the holidays, I've been refining my backlog. As a speaker and conference chair for VSLive!, I've got lots to do. Rocky, Andrew, and I will be meeting soon to work on the grids for some of the shows coming

Personal

2018 is here!

2018 is already looking to be busy. Is some ways more so than last year. I've got eight conferences already confirmed for 2018 with the first in Las Vegas for VSLive! I have the MVP Summit in March which I'm really looking forward to as always and I just booked

dream.build.play.

Dream.Build.Play.

Update 2018-01-01 Well, as the eternal optimist, I bit off more than I could chew with work and the holidays. So I'll focus on using all of 2018 to get the game done. :D So not contest entry for me but I've already learned a bunch which I'll be writing

dream.build.play.

If you build it, they will come ...

... or so they say. In 1989, it was a baseball diamond in a corn field in Iowa. The movie was the Field of Dreams. For me on December 1, 2017, it's to build an app for my family and I. The app will be a digital version of a card

Microsoft

VSLive 2017 Redmond

VSLive is currently happening in Redmond and I wanted to post some links from my talks. General Session: Amplifying Human Ingenuity with Microsoft AI with Paul Stubbs I'm going to show a few demos on using the Bot Framework. Here's a bunch of related links to get you started. Bot

tfs

Work with VSTS (or TFS) Work Items from Excel without installing Team Explorer

TLDR; If you just want the step-by-step on how to work with Excel and work items without installing Team Explorer, jump down to the Non-Developer's Short Guide to Using Excel with TFS/VSTS Work Items on this page. For years, if you wanted to work with Team Foundation Server (TFS)

Thunderbolt 3

A nice surprise - Thunderbolt 3 working in Server 2016

I've been a big fan of Thunderbolt since I got it on my first Mac. The idea of faster external storage was great. Add daisy chaining and I was in. As time as progressed, Thunderbolt 2 came out and I built a new PC using a Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD7 TH motherboard

Windows 10

Windows 10, Updates, and knowing what's current

Update 2018-01-01 I've been using this post myself as quick way to get to the downloads. There's a different link to pull down the Fall Creators Update bits: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4043454/windows-10-windows-server-2016-update-history Original Post Almost all of my client PCs and virtual machines run Windows 10.

SQL Server;Linux;Data Dude;SSDT;Redgate

How do you do File | New | SQL Server Database?

It used to be a no brainer. I'd fire up SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and go to town. Or if SSMS wasn't installed, I would open up the Database Tools in Visual Studio. However, in 2006 I saw the light from the Dude (no not that dude), the Data

Microsoft

Giving Feedback to Microsoft—Be Nice

The other day the subject of giving feedback to Microsoft about Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) came up. This got me thinking about all the ways one can communicate with the folks that build many of the tools I use everyday. This post is going to focus

Azure

Azure N-Series–High Performance GPU in the Cloud

Last year, Microsoft announced their intent to offer high-end GPUs in Azure VMs: Finally, to further boost the performance of our world-class cloud infrastructure, we today announced the N-series, a new family of Azure Virtual Machines with GPU capabilities. GPUs are ideal for compute and graphics-intensive workloads, helping customers to

Rocky

No Time Like the Present

Today's a special day. Why you ask? It's simple. It's my dear friend Rocky's birthday. He turned 50 today. Today is super special because in February of this year, I flew out to see Rocky in Minneapolis. I wanted to "hang out" with my buddy. You see Rocky