Chocolatey-tools/Examples/Demo-Boxstarter.MD

Boxstarter can be used to create a dynamic list of both outdated packages, additional packages to install and packages to exclude for each Chocolatey client

Prerequisites:

• Boxstarter PowerShell module

In this example, we want to add curl and git as additional packages to install and exclude Java (jre8). Note that -ScriptPath is the path that will be created with a list of choco commands for each package to install. Boxstarter will reboot if needed after each line

Invoke-BoxStarterRemoteUpgrade -ComputerName winclient2 -Credential (Get-Credential) `
-AdditionalPackages curl,git -ExcludedPackages jre8 `
-ScriptPath C:\Windows\Temp\BoxstarterUpgrade.txt

Here is the BoxstarterUpgrade.txt file for the previous example:

choco upgrade curl -r -y
choco upgrade git -r -y
choco upgrade googlechrome -r -y