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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @flaxking
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      @flaxking said in Install Chocolatey on all Domains Computers PS:

      It'll be a year since I've done it, but at that time I just made sure the files copied on to every computer. Not sure what else the powershell script does except for set an environment variable

      It does the install. No need to download Chocolatey, this runs the installer from the web.

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        marcinozga @dbeato
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        @dbeato said in Install Chocolatey on all Domains Computers PS:

        If you have more efficient ways, please let me know.

        I use Ansible to install Chocolatey on windows machines. You need to set them up so Ansible can manage them, it's a well documented process though. Ansible docs have all the info for that. Now any playbook or role that invokes win_chocolatey module will install Chocolatey if missing. Here's a sample:

        ---
        - hosts: all
          tasks:
          - name: Upgrade all software
            win_chocolatey:
              name: all
              state: latest
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          Alex Sage
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          How fast does chocolatey get update for things like Adobe Flash?

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @Alex Sage
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            @aaronstuder said in Install Chocolatey on all Domains Computers PS:

            How fast does chocolatey get update for things like Adobe Flash?

            Depends on how quickly Adobe rolls them out. It's Adobe in that case, not Chocolatey, that is the deciding factor.

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            • DustinB3403D
              DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
              last edited by

              @scottalanmiller said in Install Chocolatey on all Domains Computers PS:

              @aaronstuder said in Install Chocolatey on all Domains Computers PS:

              How fast does chocolatey get update for things like Adobe Flash?

              Depends on how quickly Adobe rolls them out. It's Adobe in that case, not Chocolatey, that is the deciding factor.

              Not quite true, the chocolatey maintainer needs to update the chocolatey repo as well.

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                Alex Sage @DustinB3403
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                @dustinb3403 said in Install Chocolatey on all Domains Computers PS:

                Not quite true, the chocolatey maintainer needs to update the chocolatey repo as well.

                Exactly. How long does that take?

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403 @Alex Sage
                  last edited by

                  @aaronstuder said in Install Chocolatey on all Domains Computers PS:

                  @dustinb3403 said in Install Chocolatey on all Domains Computers PS:

                  Not quite true, the chocolatey maintainer needs to update the chocolatey repo as well.

                  Exactly. How long does that take?

                  This depends, on if the maintainer is actually looking g out for updates and pushing them through.

                  With ShareX the original maintainer disappeared, so the chocolatey team took over it. It took about a month for that transition. Because they were attempting to get the software developer to maintain the chocolatey repo.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @Alex Sage
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                    @aaronstuder said in Install Chocolatey on all Domains Computers PS:

                    @dustinb3403 said in Install Chocolatey on all Domains Computers PS:

                    Not quite true, the chocolatey maintainer needs to update the chocolatey repo as well.

                    Exactly. How long does that take?

                    As long as each vendor decides. You'd have to monitor Adobe Flash releases, monitor their releases on Chocolatey and use that to guess what the future will be like.

                    Flash is dead, so I doubt any one is paying attention to it. Those that need it get a secure version built into Chrome. I can't remember the last time I installed (or used) Flash.

                    But it 100% comes down to "how much faith do you have in Adobe's release procedures."

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                      marcinozga @Alex Sage
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                      @aaronstuder said in Install Chocolatey on all Domains Computers PS:

                      How fast does chocolatey get update for things like Adobe Flash?

                      Probably faster that if you did it manually. It depends on maintainer, but most popular packages are updated quickly.

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                      • JaredBuschJ
                        JaredBusch
                        last edited by JaredBusch

                        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.
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                        adobereader-update history.
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