Tag Archives: chocolatey

Chocolatey install prey

Posted on November 10, 2014 by erictummers

I’m becoming a huge fan of chocolatey and powershell for automation of my environment. Today I wrote a little script to complement my development environment with prey. Prey lets you keep track of your laptop, phone and tablet whenever missing, … Continue reading →

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Chocolatey on Azure provision

Posted on May 26, 2014 by erictummers

A recent update on the Windows Azure platform enables you to run a custom powershell script when creating a new Virtual Machine. It can be configured on the last step of the Wizard. This is where chocolatey can do it’s … Continue reading →

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Week 20 roundup

Posted on May 16, 2014 by erictummers

Last week recap an links: Nice post from Matt Wrock about scripting your Cloud environments. Automate the Complete Windows Environment Setup and Configuration Octopus deploy released version 2.4.5 and asks the community to create reusable deployment steps in this blogpost. … Continue reading →

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A first encounter with Chocolatey

Posted on May 8, 2014 by erictummers

Think of Chocolatey as a nuget repository with software to install on Windows. Or apt-get for Windows. I’ve tested it for Particular software. Installation This is simple, just past one line in a command box and wait for it to … Continue reading →

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