Windows package manager

Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows like apt-get or yum but for Windows. With all of this in mind, think of Chocolatey as a framework that you can build on top of. Chef, Puppet, Boxstarter, PowerShell DSC, Ansible, Saltstack, etc all have ways for using Chocolatey to ensure the state of a computer and packages installed. Even Microsoft has decided to use Chocolatey's framework with the PowerShell PackageManagement / OneGet package manager aggregator.

Install

#List execution policies
Get-ExecutionPolicy -List

#Windows Server 
Update-ExecutionPolicy -Policy Unrestricted

#Windows 10
Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope CurrentUser
Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope CurrentUser -Force
Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope LocalMachine

#Install Chocolatey
iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString("http://chocolatey.org/install.ps1")) 
#Reload profile
. $profile

# Explanation
alias iwr #Alias           iwr -> Invoke-WebRequest 
alias iex #Alias           iex -> Invoke-Expression

Usage

# Install
choco install <pkg|packages.config> [<pkg2> <pkgN>] [<options/switches>]
cinst         <pkg|packages.config> [<pkg2> <pkgN>] [<options/switches>]

# Unistall
choco uninstall <pkg|all> [pkg2 pkgN] [options/switches]
cuninst <pkg|all> [pkg2 pkgN] [options/switches]

# List packages
choco list --local-only
choco version all # deprecated in version 1.0.0

# Upgrade
choco upgrade all

Install packages

Often packages require to run .ps1 installation steps and you will be prompted with: "The package sublimetext2 wants to run 'chocolateyInstall.ps1'. Note: If you don't run this script, the installation will fail. Note: To confirm automatically next time, use '-y' or consider: choco feature enable -n allowGlobalConfirmation.. So use commands to achieve this:

<syntaxhighlightjs lang="powershell"> choco feature enable -n allowGlobalConfirmation #one time off choco install -y notepadplusplus #per package </syntaxhighlightjs>

<syntaxhighlightjs lang="powershell"> cinst putty 7zip postman choco install virtualbox choco install minikube kubernetes-cli cinst git-credential-manager-for-windows cinst poshgit #git prompt in PowerShell teminal cinst console-devel cinst vscode notepadplusplus sublimetext2 atom #text editors cinst vlc cinst winmerge #add kdiff3 cinst googlechrome firefox cinst sourcetree cinst nodejs.install cinst dotpeek cinst fiddler4 #SSL packet inspection termination point and logging choco install dotnetcore-sdk #.Net Core SDK choco install dotnetcore-windowshosting #ASP.NET Core Module for IIS, enabling running of ASP.NET Core applications

1. Outdated
2. cinst git-credential-winstore #old use: Git Credential Manager for Windows

</syntaxhighlightjs>

Install .net core

powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command "[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12; &([scriptblock]::Create((Invoke-WebRequest -useb 'https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.ps1'))) <additional install-script args>"

References

• dotnet-install-script Microsoft docs

Install IIS

Install IIS with PowerShell on Windows Server 2016 / VPS / 2019

# enable IIS role
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process
Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online | where FeatureName -like 'IIS-*' #check online for available features
Get-WindowsFeature -Name Web* | Where-Object Installed               #check installed web related features
Install-WindowsFeature -Name Web-Server -IncludeManagementTools
Install-WindowsFeature -Name Web-Server -IncludeManagementTools -IncludeAllSubFeature 
Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName IIS-WebDAV       #disable IIS sub-feature (uninstall)

Windows desktop developer settings

#Set-WinUserLanguageList -LanguageList en-GB
Set-WindowsExplorerOptions -EnableShowHiddenFilesFoldersDrives -EnableShowProtectedOSFiles -EnableShowFileExtensions -EnableShowFullPathInTitleBar
Enable-RemoteDesktop
#Set-StartScreenOptio=ns -EnableBootToDesktop
#Move-LibraryDirectory "Personal" "$env:UserProfile\<userName>\documents"
#Set-WindowsExplorerOptions -EnableShowHiddenFilesFoldersDrives -EnableShowProtectedOSFiles -EnableShowFileExtensions -EnableShowFullPathInTitleBar -EnableOpenFileExplorerToQuickAccess -EnableShowRecentFilesInQuickAccess -EnableShowFrequentFoldersInQuickAccess -EnableExpandToOpenFolder
#Set-TaskbarOptions -Size Small -Lock -Dock Top -Combine Always
#Install-WindowsUpdate -AcceptEula

Resources

• Chocolatey - Software Management for Windows GitHub wiki