SCCMChoco

Description

PowerShell module integrating Chocolatey with SCCM. Provide URL of Chocolatey package, sit down, relax and wait for new applications to appear in Software Center. Applications are built using PowerShell wrappers to download all content from Internet. Nothing is stored on SCCM distribution points, all software is available immediately

Check screenshots to see code in action!!

Requirements

Computer running the module:

• PowerShell Gallery installed - at least Windows 10 or Windows 7 with WMF 5.0 (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/gallery/readme).
• SCCM Console installed
• NuGet and Chocolatey repository configured (module does it automatically)

SCCM clients

• SCCM agent configured to bypass PowerShell execution policy. This settings affects only SCCM PowerShell environment it won't change execution policy for your system.
• Screenshots of settings:

https://github.com/kubasiatkowski/SCCMChoco/blob/master/PoweShellSettings.PNG

https://github.com/kubasiatkowski/SCCMChoco/blob/master/ClientSettings-big.jpg

• Further reading (search for "PowerShell execution policy"):

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/core/clients/deploy/about-client-settings#computer-agent

How to use

1. Download Module content from https://github.com/kubasiatkowski/SCCMChoco/tree/master/PowerShellModule
2. Open PowerShell
3. Import module:

import-module c:\*pathtodownloadedfiles*\PowerShellModule\SCCMChoco.psm1

4. Check examples and enjoy :)

Examples

• Just add Chocolatey package to SCCM Software Library

Add-SCCMChocoApplication -chocourl "https://chocolatey.org/packages/Firefox"

• Add Chocolatey package to SCCM Software Library and deploy to user collection

Add-SCCMChocoApplication -chocourl "https://chocolatey.org/packages/Firefox" -CMUserCollectionName "All Users"

• Add Chocolatey package to SCCM Software Library and deploy to device collection

Add-SCCMChocoApplication -chocourl "https://chocolatey.org/packages/Firefox" -CMDeviceCollectionName "All Users"

• Add Chocolatey package to SCCM Software Library, deploy to user collection, save icon in shared folder

Add-SCCMChocoApplication -chocourl "https://chocolatey.org/packages/Firefox" -CMUserCollectionName "All Users" -IconsDir "\\SCCMSRV\CMSOURCE\Choco\Icons"

• Add Chocolatey package to SCCM Software Library, specify location of SCCM console and SiteCode

Add-SCCMChocoApplication -chocourl "https://chocolatey.org/packages/Firefox" -CMInstallDir "C:\Microsoft Configuration Manager\" - CMSiteCode "TST"

ToDo

• Nice installer
• Integration with SCCM GUI
• Updates scheduler
• Code signing