
I spent about an hour going over the few “quick start guides” to get a better grasp of Chocolatey and what it can do, which was a lot more than I previously thought, and much more than I talked about on this page. If you’re looking to do more with it, like packaging your software, you can sure do that too, but that was more than I wanted to tackle here, plus the website has really good documentation.

This is a great tool for your lab if you’re looking for a free way to install applications during OSD without maintaining them. New Tool: Chocolatey Application Wrapper for MDT.Add Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Applications with Chocolatey.Installation Command: cmd.exe /c PowerShell -Command "& " The Application in CM, Name: FileZilla Chocolatey, AppDT Name: FileZilla Chocolatey. To make this work, without getting super fancy, I’ve had to use generic detection methods. I wanted to replicate that with Chocolatey for fun.ĬAUTIONThis is not a good practice and should ONLY be used in a lab for testing. (You can find it on GARYTOWN by searching Ninite) Several years ago I wrote a script that leverages Ninite to always install the latest version of specific software.

I don’t want to take time to update applications, I just always want them to be current. So I like to have several applications available in my lab for testing with OSD.

I then open up an elevated PowerShell prompt and run the command: I then went to this package page to find something I wanted to install, and found a few good items for testing: Installation of Chocolatey Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force ::SecurityProtocol = ::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072 iex ((New-Object ).DownloadString('')) Using a VM running Windows 10, going to install Chocolatey, then leverage it to install some applications. Chocolatey has a few flavors, a basic tool, community-curated packages that you can install with a simple command line, or a complex automation system for the management of endpoints.Ĭheck out the 3 tiers on their pricing page, this will give you an overview of what comes in their Open Source Version Demo
