From eed7e882bb441972027b4973cba12945763e84c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rob Reynolds Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 09:34:10 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] (maint) Add non-admin section back It appears the non-admin section was obliterated. Add that back into the readme --- README.md | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 55fea29..e76f8db 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -24,7 +24,16 @@ To run a setup script, click a link in the table below from your target machine. ## Working with Chocolatey in an organization? As an organization, you may not be keen to reach out to the internet. That's fine as with just a few modifications you can still take advantage of these scripts. Visit the [organizational use page](ORGANIZATION.md) to learn how. -**NOTE:** + +## Don't have administrative access? +Are you in an environment where you don't have any administrative access on your machine? No problem, you can still take advantage of Chocolatey and manage "portable" software. You can also use a VM where you may have administrative access (see next section). + +For alternative means of deploying "portable" software and installing Chocolatey without administrative access, please see Chocolatey's documentation on [Non-Administrative Install](https://chocolatey.org/install#non-administrative-install). Unfortunately you won't be able to take advantage of Boxstarter, but you will find resources and an example script that gives you a quick setup of Chocolatey and installation of a few packages. + +**NOTE:** +It's important to point out the open source edition of the Chocolatey client will not allow you to magically install software that requires administrative access, so you will need to find packages that are portable or create those and push them to the community repository or your internal sources. + +**NOTE:** While Chocolatey does not require administrative privileges, some of Boxstarter's functionality does require administrative privileges to run, and it will prompt to elevate to administrator if not already elevated. ## Setting up a VM From e3508dcfbcb28bd479782259cbb6fcbd43f5490a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rob Reynolds Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 08:19:14 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] (doc) Non-admin rehash Update the two non-admin bits to provide a single idea on how to still get some boxstarter-esque functionality with straight PowerShell scripts. --- README.md | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index e76f8db..488e576 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -28,14 +28,13 @@ As an organization, you may not be keen to reach out to the internet. That's fin ## Don't have administrative access? Are you in an environment where you don't have any administrative access on your machine? No problem, you can still take advantage of Chocolatey and manage "portable" software. You can also use a VM where you may have administrative access (see next section). -For alternative means of deploying "portable" software and installing Chocolatey without administrative access, please see Chocolatey's documentation on [Non-Administrative Install](https://chocolatey.org/install#non-administrative-install). Unfortunately you won't be able to take advantage of Boxstarter, but you will find resources and an example script that gives you a quick setup of Chocolatey and installation of a few packages. +Unfortunately some of Boxstarter's functionality does require administrative privileges to run, and it will prompt to elevate to administrator if not already elevated. + +So while you won't be able to use Boxstarter, take a look at Chocolatey's documentation on [Non-Administrative Install](https://chocolatey.org/install#non-administrative-install). There you will find resources and an example PowerShell script that gives you a quick setup of Chocolatey and installation of a few packages. While not full on Boxstarter, you are still going to get a pretty rapid setup! **NOTE:** It's important to point out the open source edition of the Chocolatey client will not allow you to magically install software that requires administrative access, so you will need to find packages that are portable or create those and push them to the community repository or your internal sources. -**NOTE:** -While Chocolatey does not require administrative privileges, some of Boxstarter's functionality does require administrative privileges to run, and it will prompt to elevate to administrator if not already elevated. - ## Setting up a VM Windows 10 VM setup instructions 1. Use Hyper-V's [Quick Create](https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/virtualization/2017/01/20/a-closer-look-at-vm-quick-create/) to set up a VM