mavhc / choco-school

Choco School

My scripts to use Chocolatey in a school.

Local repository

Your public IP will get banned if 100s of computers are downloading nupkg files from chocolatey.org, so we'll need a local repo. Easiest thing is just a shared drive.

0. Get the install script from https://chocolatey.org/docs/installation#completely-offline-install It starts with # Download and install Chocolatey nupkg from an OData (HTTP/HTTPS) url such as Artifactory, Nexus, ProGet (all of these are recommended for organizational use), or Chocolatey.Server (great for smaller organizations and POCs) and save it as ChocolateyLocalInstall.ps1

1. Create a read only share, with 3 folders, files, config, packages. Optionally set up a log share.

2. Download packages from https://chocolatey.org and put them in packages folder Create xml files (some examples provided) to config which computers get which packages

3. Put the ps1 and bat files in files folder

4. Make the computers install install.bat on startup

Updating the local repostory

choco-outdated.ps1 is a script to be run by the Administrator, it compares the version numbers of nupkg files in your local repo to those on the chocolatey website, and if there's a newer version, downloads it to the working directory. The Administrator can then copy the new nupkg files to the local repo.