Monday, September 3, 2018
I talked previously about using Chocolatey for home use. It makes building a PC at home nice, simple and fast. It makes supporting non-technical friends and family nice and easy, ensuring you can build their computers how they want and keep them up-to-date with just a few simple commands (that can even be put in the scheduler, so neither you or they have to worry about them). We’ve recently just completed a Windows 10 rollout at my college.
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Introduction In this series of posts I’m revisiting an answer to a question that appeared on Server Fault way back in 2011. I’m pleased to say that it’s been viewed over 100,000 times, and I like to think its helped a few of them. But it’s time to look again. Since I wrote that post, there have been some huge intrusions, such as the well known Ashely Madison, Anthem Medical Data and JP Morgan breaches that affected millions of people.
Saturday, September 9, 2017
One of the things that I’ve always been interested in is automation, and being able to reproduce a ‘known state’ reliably and consistently. This applies at work when building servers or workstations thanks to tools like SCCM and Fog, and should be in your grasp at home or in even the smallest office, thanks to Chocolatey. Not to make a fine point of it, between my last post and this one I’ve rebuilt my PC, installing windows from scratch and all my applications, prepared breakfast for my partner and myself, started some laundry, and dealt with the cat pulling the net curtains down in my study.