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·4 min read

Using Chocolatey Templates

This is a bit of a following up to the previous post, A Quick Chocolatey Packaging Walkthrough. In this post we'll walk through making a template that can simplify and accelerate your package creation process. Get your…

·6 min read

A Quick Chocolatey Packaging Walkthrough

With the new school year and a gaggle of "virtual learning" children in the home, I've been spending a lot of time rebuilding and repurposing laptops lately. What was previously an awful, time-consuming process has been…

·1 min read

New Puppet DSC Lite Module

Puppet released a "lite" version of the DSC module today (release here. I've recently hit a wall where I needed to add a couple of DSC resources that weren't in the main module and figuring out the previous process was…

·1 min read

Internet Explorer - Disable First Run

I’ve been dealing with building packages in Chocolatey quite a bit lately, and one of the things I’ve run into is trying to get ZIP files to play nice when they need to be retrieved from Invoke-WebRequest. When…

·3 min read

Windows, Powershell and Puppet Structured Facts (Slight Return)

At the end of part one, I built a custom Puppet structured fact to relate the Powershell and .NET version information from a Powershell Object to a Ruby Hash that was readable by Facter. The end result was, well, a pile…

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Hyper-V and the Virtual Floppy

I’ve been working on automating builds in Hyper-V using Powershell and given that for some reason every OS seems to need either a PXE setup or a floppy disk to auto-provision, I took the road that took fewer additional…