Just a quickie. I have a script that outputs an XML file and I use an XSL file to display it but Management wanted HTML files, the thought of having to re-code the output was disheartening to say the least. I then came across “msxsl.exe” it’s a Microsoft tool that takes a XML file and …
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Seemingly this can be set by editing the TfsBuildServer.exe.config on the build agent machine and changing the value of the following Key: <add key=”SourcesSubdirectory” value=”Sources” /> On a 2010 build agent this isn’t possible
I was doing some testing on TFS and got fed up queuing new builds via right-click -> queue new build -> ok. So here is a powershell script that can be used to kick off a build. I’ve included some extra assemblies that don’t need to be used as I have other functions that do …
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I had a requirement to flash the eeprom on a FTDI chip while dropping a clonezilla image onto the system which is done via a PXE server The 1st thing we need to do is get ftdi_eeprom tools on the clonezilla image, we do this by setting up an ubuntu system (I used ubuntu 12.04) …
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I needed to get the values for a enum in order to generate the correct flags for a function call here’s how to do it. [Enum]::GetValues(<enumType>) will return a list of all the values <enumType>::<value>.value__ will return the numeric value enum
So I’ve been a very naughty sysadmin recently, one of the things I intended to do early on in my new employment was setup some form of System Management as we have several Linux hosts. However truth be told I have never had a System Management system for Linux hosts (due to a lack of time to …
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Sorry for the lack of progress until recently but I’ve recently had a lot of more important priorities in life so working on this had to go on hold for a little while. I am hoping in the next few months to release version 1.0 but as on now this is still experimental so should …
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Introduction Welcome to Part 2, this part will provide the background and current topology that is to be replaced, the real fun will start in Part 3. I know you are all impatient to get started configuring switches, routers and servers but I think that the design and the reasons behind the design are as important (if …
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Introduction This series of tutorials will be similar to my posts on a wireless setup, where I take a real world requirement of mine and fit it to a tutorial about NINet.org. Summary This series will take an existing flat topology with mixed switches running in L2 and convert it to a Cisco Switch Topology …
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Well I’ve just been put in charge of managing our TFS infrastructure so here is the first of hopefully many posts around automating and managing TFS. The attached script runs a SOAP query against the TFS Warehouse Cube and returns the jobs and their status and then either generates an HTML file or sends an …
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