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