What is Your Chocolatey List

DustinB3403

Dashrender

Yes, Chocolatey is a full package management system and you can run the command choco upgrade on 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...

Dashrender

I'm surprised. installing things with Chocolatey puts them in the add/remove programs.

Dashrender

@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.

scottalanmiller

You seem to be having a lot of issues. You should add that to one of your threads.

JaredBusch

So has anyone here setup their own list?

Jason

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Yes, Chocolatey is a full package management system and you can run the command choco upgrade on 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.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

Yes, Chocolatey is a full package management system and you can run the command choco upgrade on 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?

Dashrender

@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...

Dashrender

@Jason said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Yes, Chocolatey is a full package management system and you can run the command choco upgrade on 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.

thanksajdotcom

@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!

Dashrender

Anyone know why the Uninstaller is not installed by default with Chocolatey?

https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/wiki/CommandsUninstall

scottalanmiller

Protection, perhaps?

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

Protection, perhaps?

From what?

scottalanmiller

Accidental package removal.

Dashrender

@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.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

@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)?

Depends how it is installed, not normally.

Because it is just a command line command and not a central locked application like Add/Remove programs. Very different.

Dashrender

Sure, but it appears that Chocolatey is now installing applications mostly into their original location (Program Files). That location can't be messed with by anyone buy local admins.