Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter I figured out how to install SQL Server Express using BoxStarter, I was able to finish my BoxStarter scripts. Currently these scrips allow you to install Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) and Veeam Backup for Office 365 (VBO). Veeam One (VONE) soon to come. There are many ways possible to have an unattended installation […]
Releasing your project using GitHub Acti...
Reading Time: 3 minutesMost of us have used git and probably GitHub as well. For quite some time they have made GitHub Actions available. This is a pipeline feature inside GitHub has the possibility to do amazing things. Big difference from AppVeyor or Travis CI is that you can include standard blocks, called actions, into your workload. The […]
Installing SQL Server using Boxstarter a...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLet me first tell you a bit about Boxstarter. It leverages Chocolatey packages to automate the installation of software and create repeatable, reboot resilient, scripted Windows environments. Chocolatey makes installing software very easy with no user intervention. When installing SQL Server on a machine the installer uses DPAPI to encrypt/decrypt data for the installation. Due to the […]
VBR v10 Chocolatey packages
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn preparation of the upcoming Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) v10 release, I have started the process of updating the VBR packages. You can now test these packages yourself. These packages are not pushed to Chocolatey and therefore need to be handled a bit different. Prerequisites To be able to install these packages, the following […]
Veeam Backup for Microsoft O365 Chocolat...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter I implemented Veeam B&R at my employer, we adopted Veeam Backup for Microsoft O365. Again, no Chocolatey packages existed for this, so I created one. Veeam has bundled Veeam B&R as an ISO. Lucky for us, Veeam for O365 is not. This software is bundled as an zip archive. Therefore it is easier to […]
Sponsor me on GitHub
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGitHub has approved my profile as a GitHub Sponsor. You should now be able to sponsor me on GitHub. I have set up several tiers that should allow you to sponsor me for my Chocolatey work. If you are missing a tier or have any questions, please contact me.
The Microsoft Windows Terminal
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Microsoft’s Windows Terminal Chocolatey package is approved and ready for download! Windows Terminal is a new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community. including support for tabs, rich text, globalization, configurability, theming & styling, and more. If you want […]
Chocolatey Veeam packages
Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter an extensive selection process my employer and I have decided to use Veeam Backup and Replication as our new backup software. I wanted to install Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) using Chocolatey, as I am a big fan of their setup. However there were no packages available to install them. Chocolatey Chocolatey requires that […]
250 days of Chocolate(y)
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn October 19th 2018, I submitted my first Chocolatey package. Today that is 250 days ago. My first package was AnyRail6. Since then:
GitHub Pages
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter playing around a bit with GitHub Pages, I decided to create a script that automatically generates some informational pages about my Chocolatey packages. The script first will first iterate to all my extensions (currently only one). It generates PowerShell documentation about the commandlets for that particular extension. After that, It will iterate through all […]