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About erictummers

Working in a DevOps team is the best thing that happened to me. I like challenges and sharing the solutions with others. On my blog I’ll mostly post about my work, but expect an occasional home project, productivity tip and tooling review.

Kudu console for backup

Posted on May 12, 2014 by erictummers

We host our own nuget server in azurewebsites. To make backups of the packages we use Kudu console. Kudu is the engine behind git deployments in Azure Web Sites. It can also run outside of Azure. Read more info about … Continue reading →

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Week 19 roundup

Posted on May 9, 2014 by erictummers

Last week recap an links: Mindmap meets Evernote with Mohiomap. Nice visual of your Evernote and/or DropBox content. Windows Azure has a new Portal. Check it out. Used Spreadsheet Inquire to view changes between versions of an Excel file. Installed … Continue reading →

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A first encounter with Chocolatey

Posted on May 8, 2014 by erictummers

Think of Chocolatey as a nuget repository with software to install on Windows. Or apt-get for Windows. I’ve tested it for Particular software. Installation This is simple, just past one line in a command box and wait for it to … Continue reading →

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Connect Virtual Machines in Windows Azure

Posted on May 7, 2014 by erictummers

Our project relies on MSDTC. To use this in Windows Azure the machines must be able to find each other. Here are the two solutions Microsoft offers. Move VM to virtual network In this post Karl writes how to move … Continue reading →

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nServiceBus license

Posted on May 6, 2014 by erictummers

The nServiceBus software from Particular provides a great integration platform. Our current project integrates 5 systems. One is a system that communicates by putting XML files in a drop location. For an initial load there will be over 30.000 files … Continue reading →

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