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How I keep 30 Chocolatey packages up-to-date without losing my mind

As of this writing, I manage 29 packages on Chocolatey.org. One thing it’s imperative package authors do, though, is keep their packages up to date as new versions of the software they’re wrapping get released. Without this, packages simply atrophy and the value of Chocolatey goes down. That said, managing nearly 30 packages would be an all-consuming task if I was forced to monitor all the various distribution channels as well as hand-roll updates to them whenever they were released. So how do I do it? Let me show you.

On-schedule and On-demand Azure VMs using Runbooks + Microsoft Flow

Since using the new Azure “V2” VMs I had a complaint: I can’t (easily) set up a schedule for my VMs like I was able to with Classic VMs and the Classic Management dashboard. I recently set up a Minecraft server for my sons and was turning it on when they got home from school… Read More »