What is Your Chocolatey List
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Is chocolatey a capable tool for auto updating software on Windows.
Being a package manager I'd imagine it is, just reading a bit about and I'm seeing possibilities.
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It is but only for the software in its repository. Which is a lot, but it is not going to work for MS Office, Windows itself, ad hoc third party proprietary software, etc.
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@mlnews It's all of the common crap with day 0 exploits that I'm thinking about...
A rapid update solution.
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Yes, Chocolatey is a full package management system and you can run the command
choco upgradeon a schedule. You can have it update every package an hour before people start work every morning to make sure that they have the latest patches before every day of work. -
@scottalanmiller and that is awesome!
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@scottalanmiller said:
Yes, Chocolatey is a full package management system and you can run the command
choco upgradeon a schedule. You can have it update every package an hour before people start work every morning to make sure that they have the latest patches before every day of work.Not a bad idea...
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I'm surprised. installing things with Chocolatey puts them in the add/remove programs.
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@Dashrender said:
I'm surprised. installing things with Chocolatey puts them in the add/remove programs.
Although I just tried to use Choco uninstall lastpass (Lastpass was causing IE 11 to crash) and it failed to remove it with errors.
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You seem to be having a lot of issues. You should add that to one of your threads.
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So has anyone here setup their own list?
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Yes, Chocolatey is a full package management system and you can run the command
choco upgradeon a schedule. You can have it update every package an hour before people start work every morning to make sure that they have the latest patches before every day of work.Not a bad idea...
Except they tend to take a while to approve it. I can get the stuff out with a custom GPO msi faster than Choco gets things approved.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Yes, Chocolatey is a full package management system and you can run the command
choco upgradeon a schedule. You can have it update every package an hour before people start work every morning to make sure that they have the latest patches before every day of work.is the CUP command listed earlier in this thread no longer in use?
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@JaredBusch said:
So has anyone here setup their own list?
Talk about a pain, having to roll your own packages and then update them all...
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@Jason said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Yes, Chocolatey is a full package management system and you can run the command
choco upgradeon a schedule. You can have it update every package an hour before people start work every morning to make sure that they have the latest patches before every day of work.Not a bad idea...
Except they tend to take a while to approve it. I can get the stuff out with a custom GPO msi faster than Choco gets things approved.
yeah, that could be an issue. Ninite seems to update very rapidly.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I feel like @thanksajdotcom does. I've always been pretty happy with standard PuTTY.
KiTTY is like PuTTY but on steroids. My favorite thing about it is what makes it ideal for remote support...duplicate sessions without reauthenticating in the new session. It caches the credentials used to login to the original session so you can just duplicate and it authenticates with the same credentials. Between that and a couple other features, I prefer it!
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Anyone know why the Uninstaller is not installed by default with Chocolatey?
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Protection, perhaps?
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Accidental package removal.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Accidental package removal.
Don't you have to be an admin to remove a program? Why would this be any different than Add/Remove programs (or the newer Programs and Features)?
I don't think it really is, but I'm asking in case I missed something obvious.
