Matt Wrock mwrock

The state of Boxstarter

Boxstarter builds on top of Chocolatey providing reboot resiliency, commands for configuring and personalizing your windows environment, running windows updates and the ability to install packages on remote machines as well as installing from scripts stored in any http resource like a gist. This makes Boxstarter ideal for setting up new developer machines with Chocolatey!

Today Boxstarter ships its own version of Chocolatey - the last powershell based version 0.9.8.33. This version of Chocolatey can be installed on the same machine as the current Chocolatey version and is only used by Chocolatey. Howerver, this has caused some confusion, and as Chocolatey evolves, some packages will become incompatible with this older version of Chocolatey.

I am getting very close to releasing a new version of Boxstarter that will no longer need the older Chocolatey and will instead ship with a Chocolatey API library leveraging the functionality of today's chocolatey.

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	iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

	Update-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
	#Move-LibraryDirectory "Personal" "$env:UserProfile\skydrive\documents"
	Set-WindowsExplorerOptions -EnableShowHiddenFilesFoldersDrives -EnableShowProtectedOSFiles -EnableShowFileExtensions
	Set-TaskbarOptions -Size Small
	Enable-RemoteDesktop

	cinst fiddler
	cinst Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows

	POST /wsman HTTP/1.1
	Content-Type: application/soap+xml;charset=UTF-8
	Authorization: Basic dmFncmFudDp2YWdyYW50
	User-Agent: Ruby WinRM Client (2.6.0.1, ruby 2.0.0 (2015-04-13))
	Accept: /
	Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 01:35:56 GMT
	Content-Length: 1663
	Host: 192.168.137.222:5985

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><env:Envelope xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:a="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing" xmlns:b="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wsman/1/cimbinding.xsd" xmlns:n="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/enumeration" xmlns:x="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/transfer" xmlns:w="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wsman/1/wsman.xsd" xmlns:p="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/wsman.xsd" xmlns:rsp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/windows/shell" xmlns:cfg="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/config"><env:Header><a:To>http://192.168.137.222:5985/wsman</a:To><a:

	{
	"builders": [{
	"type": "virtualbox-iso",
	"vboxmanage": [
	[ "modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--natpf1", "guest_winrm,tcp,,55985,,5985" ],
	[ "modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--memory", "2048" ],
	[ "modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--cpus", "2" ]
	],
	"guest_os_type": "Windows2012_64",
	"iso_url": "http://care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/6/2/A/62A76ABB-9990-4EFC-A4FE-C7D698DAEB96/9600.17050.WINBLUE_REFRESH.140317-1640_X64FRE_SERVER_EVAL_EN-US-IR3_SSS_X64FREE_EN-US_DV9.ISO",

	use_inline_resources

	require 'json'

	include ClcLibrary::Helper
	include Provisioner::Helper

	def whyrun_supported?
	true
	end

	iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mwrock/boxstarter/master/BuildScripts/bootstrapper.ps1'))
	Get-Boxstarter -Force