Geeks 4 Data

I have been doing Scrum for years and have had some great teachers ( Richard Hundhausen , Derek Davidson and even Jeff Sutherland  - well, I read his book :-)) but one very important aspect of of the framework has continued to haunt me until now. I have always struggled to explain the difference between effort and work required and no matter how many times I suggested that effort was related to complexity I was never able to come up with an analogy or explanation that would suffice. The team would constantly revert to the assumption that effort meant how much of the sprint (therefore time) would be needed to complete the work; I would say, "no, that is what we use work remaining for" and the team would invariably reply "what's the point of effort then?". The other day while explaining the importance of doing design in the planning meeting to a bunch of colleagues, one very astute colleague asked the question "won't we run out of time in the planni...

Just provisioned a bunch of nice shiny new VMs with Windows Server 2016 Core, joined to the domain, proxy set and Windows Updates applied. All ready for DSC except that I can't connect remotely! The following red text annoys me: So I try a few things... 1) Try remoting from a VM on the same host - nada 2) Try removing the proxy - nada (just got a different exception) 3) Reboots - nada So then I decided to talk to a network\infrastructure dude to get help ( caus I is a dev ). A huff and puff and some jiggery pokery later and it turns out DNS was holding static records for the previous versions of the machines. You see, the VMs were shiny and new but their names weren't. Once the static DNS records were deleted I could remote! Adds weight to the argument that VMs should be named generically. Shout out to Si for helping me with this :-)

This one is just for me :-) Using git via command line will often (but not always??) change the context of the command window to Vim which is lovely and all but it is not that obvious how to get back to the normal command prompt. Sadly, 'esc' does not do it, you have to type wq at the colon prompt. Not that intuitive but hey...

Ever had that feeling that gremlins are at work? Keep going round in circles and start contemplating a career change? Well... I have been struggling with getting Reporting Services 2016 configured to use Windows Authentication, ala kerberos ( as my previous post alluded). In the past this has been a relatively trivial task but this last week I have found new depths of despair and frustration. So let me explain the scenario: GIVEN a reporting services server that is built by DSC AND the ReportServer service is running on port 80 AND the ReportServer.config file has been modified (see docs ) WHEN the HTTP/mymachine.mydomain.com SPN is added for myaccount THEN Windows Authentication is enabled for SSRS :-) AND PowerShell remote sessions (WinRM) is broken :-( So, me thinking I was clever, simply added port 80 to the SPN definition which fixed WinRM and broke SSRS. That sucks! It seems you can only have one or the other.