@JaredBusch said in Automatically running chocolatey upgrades: How do various people do this? Re: Next steps with SaltStack @marcinozga said in Next steps with SaltStack: Not salt, but I used https://chocolatey.org/packages/choco-upgrade-all-at which creates the same task, that runs choco upgrade all -y. If salt is using windows task scheduler, then it should just work. Does that run as the admin account? Users have no rights to run this. Running the choco install command requires local admin rights - so I assumed either - it ran as system OR it would ask for the creds of the current admin user being used to run the installer. Clearly you found that it runs as system.

@JaredBusch said in Chocolatey not available after being installed through ScreenConnect: I guess you could cycle the screenconnect client service. That should do the same. This did it; thanks. It's the only working solution short of a reboot. I did not want to connect to the client with SC so I pushed a re-install, it was current, so it just went through the motions and restarted the services. Perfect for my needs.

Nice! I was thinking about doing this soon.

i wanted an easier way to copy files to multiple folders and have the folder hierarchy duplicated within parent folders, in other words I wanted to see more stuff in more places all at once. Q-Dir works pretty well and it seems to work accurately with Onedrive which is a bonus, not all of them do, actually Q-Dir is the only one I've found that can display Onedrive statuses or statii for files and folders. I like to know if any other alternatives have the Onedrive status functionality.

Using noop would be useful when you are checking on the status of a machine that you don't necessarily manage.

Finally. Very nice.

@black3dynamite I was digging into it and it appears to be an issue with the host more than brew.

The specific package adobereader is a horrible example though. Because until this month, you installed adobereader-update which also installed adobereader first as part of the package. But now, suddenly, adobereader is all that is needed. adobereader history. adobereader-update history.

@obsolesce said in Backup Windows with UrBackup: I like the way MBS (as how Microsoft defines as "Modern Backup Solutions") work. Most do CBT very well, like Veeam, SC-DPM, and other modern solutions. I literally refer to these as legacy backups, lol.

@wrx7m said in Creating Scheduled Task with Powershell - Using specific user account: @obsolesce said in Creating Scheduled Task with Powershell - Using specific user account: I know this post is old, but I've found doing scheduled tasks with SaltStack is insanely simple and very effective lately... so much more than using MS Group Policy. https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/modules/all/salt.modules.win_task.html I really want to get back into learning saltstack again. Here's an example of a task that goes to all minions it's supposed to go to... and it "just works". No AD required. Also, using SaltStack to sync that .ps1 it runs from GitLab:

well done!

It's hard to beat a Chromebook/Chromebox

Thanks - I re-installed webroot and was able to update.

Looks like I may need to clean up some: clist -lo Chocolatey v0.10.8 7zip 16.4.0.20170506 7zip.install 16.4.0.20170506 calibre 3.8.0 ccleaner 5.35.6210 chocolatey 0.10.8 chocolatey-core.extension 1.3.1 chromium 63.0.3234.0 Firefox 56.0 GoogleChrome 61.0.3163.100 greenshot 1.2.10.6 keepass 2.36 keepass-classic 1.33 keepass.install 2.36 PDFCreator 3.0.2 putty 0.70 putty.portable 0.70 saltminion 2017.7.1 skype 7.39.0.102 teamviewer 12.0.83369 tightvnc 2.8.8 vcredist2008 9.0.30729.6161 virtualbox 5.1.26 vlc 2.2.6 x2go 4.1.0.0 24 packages installed.

@gjacobse So basically you want to iterate through a list of computers the same script correct? So do you have a list of computers? What are other steps on your script? because what we can do is the following *$computers = import-csv -Path "c:\script\computers.csv" foreach ($oldname in $computers){ Rename-Computer -NewName $newname -DomainCredential domain\admin -Restart} This assumes you have a CSV file with a oldname and new name columns with computer names.

@JaredBusch said in ZeroTier client 1.2.2 is out: @syko24 said in ZeroTier client 1.2.2 is out: @JaredBusch - Would be similar to the way ScreenConnect updates. ScreenConnect only updates when I tell it to. Correct, I just meant that the update does not require the user to have admin permissions to push that update. Would be nice if Zerotier offered a similar feature.

@Dashrender said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?: @JaredBusch said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?: my Windows VM used for minor development of shit. I assume those KB's come from other packages you have installed? Yeah. I never intentionally installed any of them.

@Ambarishrh said in Scoop- Chocolatey alternative: How is Scoop different to Chocolatey? Doesn't pollute your path. Where possible, Scoop puts your program shims in a single directory and just adds that to your path Doesn't use NuGet. NuGet is a great solution to the problem of managing software library dependencies. Scoop avoids this problem altogether: each program you install is isolated and independent. These two seem to be at odds with one another - if not, please educate me. I suppose the "where possible" is the exception ;

@scottalanmiller Thanks. I got it. I overthink everything.

Sweet. Thanks for getting this for us @adam-ierymenko

@Dashrender said: damn, I forgot about this post! Me too!

@Dashrender said: Short of getting a direct link to what someone is suggesting for you, it's very likely you'll get the wrong (though infected) thing. Windows is the worst. The Metro store has no search at all, no idea how you were supposed to use it. The Windows Phone store was actually nothing but malware. No real apps at all. The entire platform might as well have been designed for malware. It seemed to have no other function. For that reason alone, nothing more needed, I don't see it as a viable device.

@black3dynamite said in Getting Started with Chocolatey: With most recent PowerShell version, is this a newer way of installing chocolatey? https://chocolatey.org/install#install-from-powershell-v3 Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iwr https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | iex Nothing officially listed yet.

Mentioned GS there now.

Here's the one I've been using (before I found out about ShareX today - I'm gonna check that one out as soon as I have time) https://lightscreen.com.ar/

@Dashrender said: @scottalanmiller and @Minion-Queen Did you guys start this out on a fresh install situation, or to preexisting computers? For example, thoughts on best way to deploy this to 100 workstations, then remove all of the apps currently not installed through Chocolatey? Preexisting for about 20 machines and then the rest were fresh installs

I love ninite for personal use. Nuke/pave times drop dramatically.