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  Environments containing many applications
  buildmaster applications deployables • 2 May 2013, 11:07 • Jay Simmonds   3 May 2013, 17:53

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  Hi Jeff, Great questions. We try to deal with complex situations as simple as possible, but complex things can get complex. So, of course, "it depends". We're starting to document some of these in our specifics section ( http://inedo.com/specifics ) -- it's a work in progress, but we hope it gives some idea. The first step is to "translate" your organizational specific terminology to BuildMaster's terminology. We model software development as a whole, so we can implement really any structure process... it's just about figuring out what should be a deployable, what should be an application, etc. The "Release Management Done Right" whitepaper discusses the terminology we use. With only the information you provided, it's difficult to give specific advice, but from what it sounds like, the question is between Applications and Deployables. There's a KB article on the topic - http://inedo.com/support/kb/1032/the-difference-between-deployables-and-applications - that discusses differences. Dependencies are defined at the deployable level (AppX depends on EntFramework) and used at the release level (AppX 3.2 depends on EntFramework 2.0). This enables all sorts of complex patterns we've seen implemented. Feel free to contact us ( http://inedo.com/contact ), and we can discuss this in more detail and possibly help build a proof of concept. Best, Alex
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  Can I run a BuildMaster server on a Unix box
  buildmaster installation • 1 May 2013, 11:35 • Jay Simmonds   1 May 2013, 11:36

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  The BuildMaster software itself requires a Windows Server and SQL Server database. BuildMaster can connect to and orchestrate Unix boxes via SSH-based agents.
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  Post-Installation error - Handler has not been mapped to this request
  buildmaster error iis • 29 Apr 2013, 09:57 • Jay Simmonds   29 Apr 2013, 11:04

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  Yes. Things appear to be working now.
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  Build Master - Polling Frequency
  buildmaster triggered-builds build-schedules • 25 Apr 2013, 11:13 • Jay Simmonds   25 Apr 2013, 12:00

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  The ScheduleExecuterThrottle value on the Advanced/Internal Settings page found under Admin determines how often this polling occurs (it also controls the polling for whether it's time to do a scheduled build). The field specifies polling frequency in minutes.
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  Bmservice fails to start
  buildmaster service • 21 Apr 2013, 21:31 • Jay Simmonds   22 Apr 2013, 20:43

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  Thanks Alex. Changing the type/user credentials did the trick. John
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  Rollback to Proget 2.0.1
  proget error • 22 Apr 2013, 11:39 • Jay Simmonds   22 Apr 2013, 14:02

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  The "IsAbsoluteLatestVersion" is an undocumented NuGet attribute (well... it's in the source code), and has a confusing relationship to the quasi-documented IsLatestVersion attribute. Long story short, these these attributes tend to behave differently in different versions of NuGet clients, and our changes to remain compatible with the upcoming NuGet 2.5 caused a regression. You shouldn't have to change anything in your packages -- just post here if you find issues and we'll figure it out.
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  Problem creating app ("Could not find file 'C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Temp\<systemname>'. ")
  sourcesafe • 19 Apr 2013, 09:09 • Jay Simmonds   19 Apr 2013, 11:36

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  Are you able to browse for files in with the [...] button? That sometimes does not work in VSS due to a lot of reasons (mostly, VSS does not provide very parsable output). You can just try typing in the exact path to the file $/MyProject/MyProject.csproj. The error may be a result of the file not correctly at that path.
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  Adding Visual Source Safe as a Source Control Provider
  buildmaster sourcesafe • 18 Apr 2013, 10:22 • Jay Simmonds   19 Apr 2013, 06:52

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  I managed to get the source provider set up correctly but am now having a problem creating an application. I create a new .net app, but on the Source Control step (step 3) after I fill in the 'Path of solution or project' and click next I get an unexpected error. "Could not find file 'C:\Documents and Settings<username>\Local Settings\Temp<systemname>'. " I suspect this is because I originally installed as 'local system' and it doen't have rights to create the temp folder or something like that, Can you advise if this is the case and how to correct?
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  Release Notes with automatic Notifiers
  buildmaster deployments notifiers • 12 Apr 2013, 16:02 • Jay Simmonds   12 Apr 2013, 16:03

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  Not currently; but you could use a combination of actions (Generate RElease Notes, SEnd Email) to accomplsih a similar effect.
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  Problem installing windows agent (for tfs integration)
  error tfs agents • 11 Apr 2013, 05:55 • Jay Simmonds   11 Apr 2013, 10:01

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  Hi Matt, The BuildMaster agent doesn't need to be installed on the TFS Server itself; whatever server you're using as your build server (could be same server BuildMaster is installed on) should have the TFS Client (Team Explorer) installed. As for the agent error... the "IIS agent" is "SOAP Based" --- so you'd want to make sure to add a SOAP Based agent from the BuildMaster servers page. To test that IIS agent is installed, you can do http://localhost:81/agent.asmx -- if that page shows up, the the agent is configured in IIS correctly.
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  Subversion extension error: "Unable to connect. Can't determine the user's config path"
  buildmaster error subversion • 9 Apr 2013, 21:29 • Jay Simmonds   9 Apr 2013, 21:44

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  I'm getting the error with both the bundled client and with Collabnet's Subversion client. I'll into the credentials of the App Pool & Service.
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  Applying label (Subversion) fails with "System.InvalidCastException"
  buildmaster subversion label • 7 Apr 2013, 12:55 • Jay Simmonds   7 Apr 2013, 14:00

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  Hi Jan, Subversion does not support the "Apply Label" operation, so it complains about this. The UI is supposed to prevent you from using this action, but I think one of the recipes will create this action for you. Just replace the Apply Label / Get Labeled action pair with: Tag /trunk/mypath to /tags/%RELNO%.%BLDNO% Get Latest from /tags/%RELNO%.%BLDNO% Hope that helps, Tod
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  Some corner cases with DB Change Scripts
  buildmaster change-scripts • 5 Apr 2013, 16:16 • Jay Simmonds   5 Apr 2013, 16:29

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  Hi Arian, BuildMaster's Database Change Management follows the steps outlined in Database Changes Done Right: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Database-Changes-Done-Right.aspx So, basically, each script is assoiciated with a release, and BuildMaster change script executer (action, manual, or self-contained executoer) can tell if the script has been run against a database by maintaining a metadata table. You can use this to configure all sorts of patterns, including what (I think) you're refering to. Alex
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  Fresh install: Configuration Error Unrecognized configuration section 'membership'
  buildmaster installation • 4 Apr 2013, 09:22 • Jay Simmonds   4 Apr 2013, 09:31

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  I could have sworn I had this set to use asp.net 2. Anyway updated in IIS and seems to be working now. Thanks
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  HttpListenerException in bmservice at service start
  buildmaster error integrated-web-server • 3 Apr 2013, 02:22 • Jay Simmonds   3 Apr 2013, 05:13

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  Hi David i got a similar error after installing, but in the web server process (inedobmwebsrv). Im my case it occured because the port i chose for the webservice (80) was already in use. A quick check revealed that skype was using port 80 ... quitting skype and restarting the server solved the problem for me. Cheers, Boris
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  ProGet: Uploading Larger Files
  proget error packages • 29 Mar 2013, 09:40 • Jay Simmonds   29 Mar 2013, 11:23

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  Sounds good, by early next week we'll have some very specific documents that include exact deployment plans showing how we personally handle some cases with dependencies (specifically, how the BuildMaster installer deployment is automated, even though it depends on 4 separately-built BuildMaster extensions and BuildMaster itself). In the meantime, the feature as we've categorized it is Dependency Management: http://inedo.com/buildmaster/features/dependency-management
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  Install-Package : The UTC time represented when the offset is applied must be between year 0 and 10,000.
  proget error packages • 26 Mar 2013, 07:19 • Jay Simmonds   26 Mar 2013, 07:22

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  We've seen this happening with some connected feeds, and unfortunabely there is no workaround (aside from not using the connected feeds). This has to do with the translation of UTC dates between External Feeds (NuGet.org) and ProGet. We will have a new version (2.0.1) out today to resolve this.
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  BuildMasterUser_Role
  buildmaster databases change-scripts • 25 Mar 2013, 20:11 • Jay Simmonds   25 Mar 2013, 21:54

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  Good question – we’ll have to fix this in our documentation. The BuildMasterUser_Role is for the BuildMaster Application (WebApp/Service) talking to the BuildMaster Database – doesn’t have really anything to do with deploying to databases. The database deployment bits of BuildMaster need only the permissions that the scripts need to run. You set up the database credentials in a your connection string (or, if you’re using integrated authentication, the service account) – so it’s really up to you. We generally recommend giving db_owner against the target database, since your scripts will generally do a bunch of things like create, alter, etc. But that’s up to you. The script will just error out if permissions aren’t there.
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  How to set the configuration in bmdbupdate.exe
  buildmaster databases change-scripts • 21 Mar 2013, 13:59 • Jay Simmonds   21 Mar 2013, 14:20

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  The connection string format is just a typical database connection string. You can follow the examples listed here: http://connectionstrings.com/ Specifying init as "yes" will initialize the database if it hasn't already been initialized. You'll need to specify this if you're running the changescripter tool against a DB for the first time.
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  Unrecognised version of configuration during deployment
  buildmaster configuration-files • 11 Mar 2013, 14:02 • Jay Simmonds   15 Mar 2013, 13:02

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  Hi, Please ignore this question. The issue was ultimately down to the config file having unescaped percentage symbols within it and hence variable substitution not working. Regards, Jay