Boxstarter, Chocolatey & Paket add ons (improved apps provisioning via scripting toys)

necrose99

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https://boxstarter.org , https://chocolatey.org
and paket.. https://github.com/fsprojects/Paket/releases grabs useful powershell add ons and their dependencies.

can keep images small , and in post run boxstarter (uses chocolatey ) and or paket for powershell ie Windows Autopilot/Azure-AD or other scripts to join boxes to active directory etc.. or turn on features like RSAT for systesm admin.

boxstater will not care if windows 10 needs to reboot to keep deploying apps/settings. as it will resume were as chocolatey by itself wont.

cinst git-credential-winstore
cinst google-chrome firefox
cinst office2019-proplus --pre
cinst rsat
nicety of choco over ninite is packages can be scripted to upgrade or batch upgraded. and more variety of packages.

ie mount network shares , bake in apps fully unattended install.

anyway having a checkbox to add in post install. boxstarter , and choco , paket ..

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://boxstarter.org/bootstrapper.ps1')); get-boxstarter -Force

point being is could add a common deploy apps by name for users...

were on post users could ask for firefox chrome etc apps , and ntlite will run the rest of the other in back ground.
 
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choco upgrade all -y
choco install choco-upgrade-all-at-startup (can batch the task)
choco install choco-upgrade-all-at (likewise schedule them )
 
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