Reading Time: 2 minutes In 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 minute After 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 minute GitHub 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 minute The 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 minutes After 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 minute On October 19th 2018, I submitted my first Chocolatey package. Today that is 250 days ago. My first package was AnyRail6. Since then: 120 more packages created (or started maintaining) Contributed to several projects inside the Chocolatey Organisation. Became a Chocolatey Moderator
GitHub Pages
Reading Time: < 1 minute After 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 […]
A Chocolatey extension for ISO mounts
Reading Time: < 1 minute I have been working on a Chocolatey package that allows us to use an ISO for the installation media. Most software ship with an exe or msi installer. However, some vendors ship an ISO as their medium for installation. Currently there are no Chocolatey helpers to download an ISO, mount it and run the installer […]
Creating an automatically updating Choco...
Reading Time: < 1 minute On Last week I joined Gary’s stream to explain and assist Gary in creating a Chocolatey package. During this stream we explained how to use the AU software. Build a package for indeo ProGet. This was really fun to do and I hope you are able to learn from this. To watch the video, press […]
My first Chocolatey Package
Reading Time: < 1 minute One of the Chocolatey moderators approved my first Chocolatey package today! The package I have created is installing software that I use for my Model train called AnyRail. The first version of the AnyaRail6 package was pushed on October 19th wich got approved today by a moderator. I am looking forward to creating more packages! […]