How to fix “The term ‘winget’ is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.” in Windows?

This article explains how I fixed Terminal / PowerShell being unable to locate my winget when I was trying to install something with it. This was quite unexpected as I knew for sure I had installed winget, and I had also used it before successfully. But alas, things break down…Continue reading How to fix “The term ‘winget’ is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.” in Windows?

Azure DevOps is a lot of things but it's not insecure

Azure DevOps suddenly not letting you manage Environments ? Sorry, it’s for your own security!

This article explains how to get around new security limitations (did I say “limitations”? I meant “features”) in Azure DevOps to make it tolerable to configure your Azure DevOps Deployment Environments. Because the recent changes to Azure DevOps have made it, quite frankly, intolerable. But – let’s take a step…Continue reading Azure DevOps suddenly not letting you manage Environments ? Sorry, it’s for your own security!

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How to fix winget when it’s throwing a “0x8a15000f : Data required by the source is missing”?

This article offers a couple of different ways to fix the “0x8a15000f” error that winget might throw at you in seemingly random situations. It’s a great tool especially for headless scenarios on Windows, but this was an odd one – and required an odd solution. Background Another day, another headache…Continue reading How to fix winget when it’s throwing a “0x8a15000f : Data required by the source is missing”?

Azure DevOps build pipelines failing

Azure DevOps pipelines suddenly failing with “##[error]#0 building with default instance using docker driver”

Another (possibly?) timely and weird one here! This article explains how to work around Azure DevOps suddenly stopping to play nice with Docker and the rest of our tooling and causing all builds to fail with oddly non-descript error messages. Annoying to deal with but not the end of the…Continue reading Azure DevOps pipelines suddenly failing with “##[error]#0 building with default instance using docker driver”

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)

Solving “AADSTS90097: An error has occurred during admin consent processing.” issues in your app

This article explains how to fix “AADSTS90097: An error has occurred during admin consent processing.” (or like the error message is actually worded – “occurred”, which to me looks like a typo, but at least makes this easier to google. I mean – bing. Those are both verbs now until…Continue reading Solving “AADSTS90097: An error has occurred during admin consent processing.” issues in your app