Author Tim Stanley - Tim Stanley

Building An Azure Dev Test Lab - Azure Devops Migration

Feb 14, 2023

This is part of a series on Building an Azure Dev Test Lab for software development.

This is a summary of how to migrate from an on-site Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), aka Visual Studio Team Services, aka Azure Devops Server to Azure Git repositories. This article does not cover topics of Azure automated builds, automated tests, or automated deployments. These same steps would apply if migrating to GitHub Enterprise.More...

Building an Azure Dev Test Lab - Authentication

Feb 11, 2023

This is part of a series on Building an Azure Dev Test Lab for software development.

This is a summary of how to migrate from an Active Directory (AD) on premises system to Azure Cloud, how to migrate Active Directory users and groups to Azure using AD Cloud Sync, how to use a single sign-on for AD and Azure, how to enable Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) for Azure authentication and set some appropriate security policies for MFA.More...

Building an Azure Dev Test Lab - Why Azure

Jan 10, 2023

This is part of a series on Building an Azure Dev Test Lab for software development.

What is Azure and why use it?More...

Migrating to .Net7

Nov 17, 2022

On November 8, 2022, Microsoft released .Net 7. After getting Visual Studio Professional 17.4 installed, updating to .Net 7 was fairly painless.More...

Building an Azure Dev Test Lab Series

Sep 17, 2022

Microsoft has a very large quantity of documentation on Azure. But most of those articles are focused on new large-scale production scenarios or migrating existing production scenarios to Azure. For a software development firm that is looking only to leverage Azure for software development and testing, and not expose public web services to the internet, where does one start?More...

Migrating To .Net6 and Azure

Sep 02, 2022

In 2022, I decided to make a significant update the the code base and hosting platform used by this site. I decided to migrate to .Net 6 and host it on Azure.More...

2010 Era Blog Platform Retired

Sep 01, 2022

This site (tim-stanley.com) was first started in February 2006. It first went publicly live October 8, 2007. The engine used to power this site was used from 2006 to 2022. The main technology really hadn't been modified since 2010. Not bad for a sixteen year run.

In 2022, this site was updated, but this is a summary of the underlying technology that powered this site for sixteen years.More...