Releases: chocolatey/boxstarter
Releases · chocolatey/boxstarter
v2.5.19
- Fix hang detection in scheduled task detecting hangs prematurely
- Fix auto login failures after first run
- Fix Enable-BoxstarterVM on Windows 10
- Return a more actionable error message when Enable-RemoteDesktop fails
- Fix 7zip installed in private chocolatey install
- Ensure choco bin is ahead of boxstarter vendored choco bin on the path and dont copy redirect shims to choco bin even if choco is not preinstalled.
- Provide better isolation between Boxstarter and User Chocolatey installations.
- Run scheduled tasks in the same directory where it is invoked.
- Default Windows Update criteria now only installs critical updates.
- Force elevated shell during setup.bat installer.
v2.5.10
- Return a more actionable error message when Enable-RemoteDesktop fails
- Fix 7zip installed in private chocolatey install
- Ensure choco bin is ahead of boxstarter vendored choco bin on the path and dont copy redirect shims to choco bin even if choco is not preinstalled.
- Provide better isolation between Boxstarter and User Chocolatey installations.
- Run scheduled tasks in the same directory where it is invoked.
- Default Windows Update criteria now only installs critical updates.
- Force elevated shell during setup.bat installer.
v2.5.3
- Ensure choco bin is ahead of boxstarter vendored choco bin on the path and dont copy redirect shims to choco bin even if choco is not preinstalled.
- Provide better isolation between Boxstarter and User Chocolatey installations.
- Run scheduled tasks in the same directory where it is invoked.
- Default Windows Update criteria now only installs critical updates.
- Force elevated shell during setup.bat installer.
v2.5.1
- Provide better isolation between Boxstarter and User Chocolatey installations.
- Run scheduled tasks in the same directory where it is invoked.
- Default Windows Update criteria now only installs critical updates.
- Force elevated shell during setup.bat installer.
v2.4.209
- Fixes boxstarte install hangs on PSv2 when installing boxstarter after the new chocolatey
- Fixes PSModulePath that has the machine environment value stripped after chocolatey package installs
- Restart Windows Updates service before beginning installation in case updates are already running in the background
- Dont throw exception when removing the scheduled task and it did not exist
- Fix remote installs on win 7 and 2008R2 by creating scheduled task before importing remote chocolatey module
- Pass -y to chocolatey if the new one is installed to avoid red output looking like an error
- Fix installing modules via the c# based chocolatey
- Pin to last PS chocolatey version until we finih new choco compatibility
- Fix running gists from weblauncher more than once in win7 and 2008 R2
- Suppress caught errors in Invoke-FromScheduledTask from bubbling up to final result
- Work around nuget.exe limitations of handling files in system profile directory
- Provide improved error logging of chocolatey errors.
- Fixes issue where windows update reboots maching in the midst of a run.
- Fixes failures from exceptions thrown from bitlocker module even when bitlocker is not in use.
- Fixes Invoke-Reboot from a nested package and bubbles up the reboot signal
- Update docs to reflect github as repo home and remove all codeplex links
- Fix for all write-host calls being logged to Boxstarter log file even when there is no install session in progress
- fixing issue where auto login is not disabled after boxstarter run
- fixing wait for published version to retry for a minute if the new version is not yet marked published
- Improve initial connectin performance by skipping remoting check if it has already been tested in enable-BoxstarterVM
- provide messaging for some winconfig functions
- fix the setting of azure storage account by looking for https endpoints
- load storage module before azure to workaround bug with the storage module loading
- copy the root path passed to New_BoxstarerPackage
- add a DisableRestart parameter which will suppress the restart file and UAC enabling
- Greatly improve progress messaging during windows updates runs
- Fix hang scenarios when waiting for remote machine to reboot and landing in a pending reboot state shortly after reboot
- Support for auto login and restart in winrm sessions
- Fix issue with remote check causing an indefinite loop
- Silencing some handled errors and keep them from leaking to the pipeline
- Reduce WMI calls and Improve performance of testing if the current session is remote
- When forcing the install of the outer boxstarter package, make sure to delete the last install from the right repo
- Check scheduled task output for pending reboots after a remote windows update since 32 bit processes cant read the wsus registry keys
- Fix Remote check when running as a servise
- System user logs to programdata
- when accessing a 64 bit machine from a 32bit process, the windowsupdate reg key is hidden so skip it
- Bubble up errors from windows update
- Provide the same scheduled task wrapping for winrm as we do for ps remoting
- fix explorer restart when there is no explorer process
- Correcting fallback Chocolatey install path to match release 0.9.8.24
- Fixing typo param name in redirect call to set-WindowsExplorerOptions
- Fix InvalidArgument from Set-TaskbarOptions when using lock or unlock params
- Fix issues where explorer terminates and cannot restart after caling one of the winconfig functions
- Import azure module from the pipeline to avoid errors when loading Boxstarter.azure
- Suppress errors when reenabling windows update in case they had alrady been reenabled
- Fix mis encoded dash in Install-Boxstarterackage
- Fix issues when Chocolatey packages create a new module and call chocolatey functions from that module
- When building packages, skip folders without a nuspec instead of throwing an error
- Only restart the explore process of the current user when calling windows config functions
- Fixing .net 4.5 install for local installs
- Fixing TestRunner module loading for PSv2 clients
- Add the following windows config features:
- Enable/Disable showing charms when mouse is in the upper right corner
- Enable/Disable switching apps when pointing in the upper left corner
- Enable/Disable the option to launch powershell from win-x
- Enable/Disable boot to desktop
- Enable/Disable desktop background on the start screen
- Enable/Disable showing the start screen on the active display
- Enable/Disable showing the Apps View by default on the start screen
- Enable/Disable searching everywhere in apps view. Not just apps.
- Enable/Disable showing desktop apps first in results
- Lock/Unlock task bar
- Change taskbar icon size
- Change location of taskbar docking
- Add test and publish automation that can point to remote deployment targets
- Provide build scripts for integration of tests and publishing in CI servers
- Include configured nuget sources and local repo to all chocolatey install calls and not just the initial package
- Fix enabling powershell remoting via WMI when password has ampersands
- Avoid explorer.exe crashes when configuring explorer options
- Fix Hyper-V heartbeat check in non US locales
- Fix Azure module loading in 32 bit consoles
- Fix shell shortcuts when user name has a space
- Fix Azure VM Checkpoint listing when there are more than one VM in a service
- Install .net 4.5 ONLY without affecting IIS settings when .net 4 is not present
- Fix Azure VM integration when multiple subscriptions are present
- Allow remote installs to be run by a non amin user
v2.4.205
- Restart Windows Updates service before beginning installation in case updates are already running in the background
- Dont throw exception when removing the scheduled task and it did not exist
- Fix remote installs on win 7 and 2008R2 by creating scheduled task before importing remote chocolatey module
- Pass -y to chocolatey if the new one is installed to avoid red output looking like an error
- Fix installing modules via the c# based chocolatey
- Pin to last PS chocolatey version until we finih new choco compatibility
- Fix running gists from weblauncher more than once in win7 and 2008 R2
- Suppress caught errors in Invoke-FromScheduledTask from bubbling up to final result
- Work around nuget.exe limitations of handling files in system profile directory
- Provide improved error logging of chocolatey errors.
- Fixes issue where windows update reboots maching in the midst of a run.
- Fixes failures from exceptions thrown from bitlocker module even when bitlocker is not in use.
- Fixes Invoke-Reboot from a nested package and bubbles up the reboot signal
- Update docs to reflect github as repo home and remove all codeplex links
- Fix for all write-host calls being logged to Boxstarter log file even when there is no install session in progress
- fixing issue where auto login is not disabled after boxstarter run
- fixing wait for published version to retry for a minute if the new version is not yet marked published
- Improve initial connectin performance by skipping remoting check if it has already been tested in enable-BoxstarterVM
- provide messaging for some winconfig functions
- fix the setting of azure storage account by looking for https endpoints
- load storage module before azure to workaround bug with the storage module loading
- copy the root path passed to New_BoxstarerPackage
- add a DisableRestart parameter which will suppress the restart file and UAC enabling
- Greatly improve progress messaging during windows updates runs
- Fix hang scenarios when waiting for remote machine to reboot and landing in a pending reboot state shortly after reboot
- Support for auto login and restart in winrm sessions
- Fix issue with remote check causing an indefinite loop
- Silencing some handled errors and keep them from leaking to the pipeline
- Reduce WMI calls and Improve performance of testing if the current session is remote
- When forcing the install of the outer boxstarter package, make sure to delete the last install from the right repo
- Check scheduled task output for pending reboots after a remote windows update since 32 bit processes cant read the wsus registry keys
- Fix Remote check when running as a servise
- System user logs to programdata
- when accessing a 64 bit machine from a 32bit process, the windowsupdate reg key is hidden so skip it
- Bubble up errors from windows update
- Provide the same scheduled task wrapping for winrm as we do for ps remoting
- fix explorer restart when there is no explorer process
- Correcting fallback Chocolatey install path to match release 0.9.8.24
- Fixing typo param name in redirect call to set-WindowsExplorerOptions
- Fix InvalidArgument from Set-TaskbarOptions when using lock or unlock params
- Fix issues where explorer terminates and cannot restart after caling one of the winconfig functions
- Import azure module from the pipeline to avoid errors when loading Boxstarter.azure
- Suppress errors when reenabling windows update in case they had alrady been reenabled
- Fix mis encoded dash in Install-Boxstarterackage
- Fix issues when Chocolatey packages create a new module and call chocolatey functions from that module
- When building packages, skip folders without a nuspec instead of throwing an error
- Only restart the explore process of the current user when calling windows config functions
- Fixing .net 4.5 install for local installs
- Fixing TestRunner module loading for PSv2 clients
- Add the following windows config features:
- Enable/Disable showing charms when mouse is in the upper right corner
- Enable/Disable switching apps when pointing in the upper left corner
- Enable/Disable the option to launch powershell from win-x
- Enable/Disable boot to desktop
- Enable/Disable desktop background on the start screen
- Enable/Disable showing the start screen on the active display
- Enable/Disable showing the Apps View by default on the start screen
- Enable/Disable searching everywhere in apps view. Not just apps.
- Enable/Disable showing desktop apps first in results
- Lock/Unlock task bar
- Change taskbar icon size
- Change location of taskbar docking
- Add test and publish automation that can point to remote deployment targets
- Provide build scripts for integration of tests and publishing in CI servers
- Include configured nuget sources and local repo to all chocolatey install calls and not just the initial package
- Fix enabling powershell remoting via WMI when password has ampersands
- Avoid explorer.exe crashes when configuring explorer options
- Fix Hyper-V heartbeat check in non US locales
- Fix Azure module loading in 32 bit consoles
- Fix shell shortcuts when user name has a space
- Fix Azure VM Checkpoint listing when there are more than one VM in a service
- Install .net 4.5 ONLY without affecting IIS settings when .net 4 is not present
- Fix Azure VM integration when multiple subscriptions are present
- Allow remote installs to be run by a non amin user
v2.4.196
- Fix remote installs on win 7 and 2008R2 by creating scheduled task before importing remote chocolatey module
- Pass -y to chocolatey if the new one is installed to avoid red output looking like an error
- Fix installing modules via the c# based chocolatey
- Pin to last PS chocolatey version until we finih new choco compatibility
- Fix running gists from weblauncher more than once in win7 and 2008 R2
- Suppress caught errors in Invoke-FromScheduledTask from bubbling up to final result
- Work around nuget.exe limitations of handling files in system profile directory
- Provide improved error logging of chocolatey errors.
- Fixes issue where windows update reboots maching in the midst of a run.
- Fixes failures from exceptions thrown from bitlocker module even when bitlocker is not in use.
- Fixes Invoke-Reboot from a nested package and bubbles up the reboot signal
- Update docs to reflect github as repo home and remove all codeplex links
- Fix for all write-host calls being logged to Boxstarter log file even when there is no install session in progress
- fixing issue where auto login is not disabled after boxstarter run
- fixing wait for published version to retry for a minute if the new version is not yet marked published
- Improve initial connectin performance by skipping remoting check if it has already been tested in enable-BoxstarterVM
- provide messaging for some winconfig functions
- fix the setting of azure storage account by looking for https endpoints
- load storage module before azure to workaround bug with the storage module loading
- copy the root path passed to New_BoxstarerPackage
- add a DisableRestart parameter which will suppress the restart file and UAC enabling
- Greatly improve progress messaging during windows updates runs
- Fix hang scenarios when waiting for remote machine to reboot and landing in a pending reboot state shortly after reboot
- Support for auto login and restart in winrm sessions
- Fix issue with remote check causing an indefinite loop
- Silencing some handled errors and keep them from leaking to the pipeline
- Reduce WMI calls and Improve performance of testing if the current session is remote
- When forcing the install of the outer boxstarter package, make sure to delete the last install from the right repo
- Check scheduled task output for pending reboots after a remote windows update since 32 bit processes cant read the wsus registry keys
- Fix Remote check when running as a servise
- System user logs to programdata
- when accessing a 64 bit machine from a 32bit process, the windowsupdate reg key is hidden so skip it
- Bubble up errors from windows update
- Provide the same scheduled task wrapping for winrm as we do for ps remoting
- fix explorer restart when there is no explorer process
- Correcting fallback Chocolatey install path to match release 0.9.8.24
- Fixing typo param name in redirect call to set-WindowsExplorerOptions
- Fix InvalidArgument from Set-TaskbarOptions when using lock or unlock params
- Fix issues where explorer terminates and cannot restart after caling one of the winconfig functions
- Import azure module from the pipeline to avoid errors when loading Boxstarter.azure
- Suppress errors when reenabling windows update in case they had alrady been reenabled
- Fix mis encoded dash in Install-Boxstarterackage
- Fix issues when Chocolatey packages create a new module and call chocolatey functions from that module
- When building packages, skip folders without a nuspec instead of throwing an error
- Only restart the explore process of the current user when calling windows config functions
- Fixing .net 4.5 install for local installs
- Fixing TestRunner module loading for PSv2 clients
- Add the following windows config features:
- Enable/Disable showing charms when mouse is in the upper right corner
- Enable/Disable switching apps when pointing in the upper left corner
- Enable/Disable the option to launch powershell from win-x
- Enable/Disable boot to desktop
- Enable/Disable desktop background on the start screen
- Enable/Disable showing the start screen on the active display
- Enable/Disable showing the Apps View by default on the start screen
- Enable/Disable searching everywhere in apps view. Not just apps.
- Enable/Disable showing desktop apps first in results
- Lock/Unlock task bar
- Change taskbar icon size
- Change location of taskbar docking
- Add test and publish automation that can point to remote deployment targets
- Provide build scripts for integration of tests and publishing in CI servers
- Include configured nuget sources and local repo to all chocolatey install calls and not just the initial package
- Fix enabling powershell remoting via WMI when password has ampersands
- Avoid explorer.exe crashes when configuring explorer options
- Fix Hyper-V heartbeat check in non US locales
- Fix Azure module loading in 32 bit consoles
- Fix shell shortcuts when user name has a space
- Fix Azure VM Checkpoint listing when there are more than one VM in a service
- Install .net 4.5 ONLY without affecting IIS settings when .net 4 is not present
- Fix Azure VM integration when multiple subscriptions are present
- Allow remote installs to be run by a non amin user
v2.4.188
- Fix installing modules via the c# based chocolatey
- Pin to last PS chocolatey version until we finih new choco compatibility
- Fix running gists from weblauncher more than once in win7 and 2008 R2
- Suppress caught errors in Invoke-FromScheduledTask from bubbling up to final result
- Work around nuget.exe limitations of handling files in system profile directory
- Provide improved error logging of chocolatey errors.
- Fixes issue where windows update reboots maching in the midst of a run.
- Fixes failures from exceptions thrown from bitlocker module even when bitlocker is not in use.
- Fixes Invoke-Reboot from a nested package and bubbles up the reboot signal
- Update docs to reflect github as repo home and remove all codeplex links
- Fix for all write-host calls being logged to Boxstarter log file even when there is no install session in progress
- fixing issue where auto login is not disabled after boxstarter run
- fixing wait for published version to retry for a minute if the new version is not yet marked published
- Improve initial connectin performance by skipping remoting check if it has already been tested in enable-BoxstarterVM
- provide messaging for some winconfig functions
- fix the setting of azure storage account by looking for https endpoints
- load storage module before azure to workaround bug with the storage module loading
- copy the root path passed to New_BoxstarerPackage
- add a DisableRestart parameter which will suppress the restart file and UAC enabling
- Greatly improve progress messaging during windows updates runs
- Fix hang scenarios when waiting for remote machine to reboot and landing in a pending reboot state shortly after reboot
- Support for auto login and restart in winrm sessions
- Fix issue with remote check causing an indefinite loop
- Silencing some handled errors and keep them from leaking to the pipeline
- Reduce WMI calls and Improve performance of testing if the current session is remote
- When forcing the install of the outer boxstarter package, make sure to delete the last install from the right repo
- Check scheduled task output for pending reboots after a remote windows update since 32 bit processes cant read the wsus registry keys
- Fix Remote check when running as a servise
- System user logs to programdata
- when accessing a 64 bit machine from a 32bit process, the windowsupdate reg key is hidden so skip it
- Bubble up errors from windows update
- Provide the same scheduled task wrapping for winrm as we do for ps remoting
- fix explorer restart when there is no explorer process
- Correcting fallback Chocolatey install path to match release 0.9.8.24
- Fixing typo param name in redirect call to set-WindowsExplorerOptions
- Fix InvalidArgument from Set-TaskbarOptions when using lock or unlock params
- Fix issues where explorer terminates and cannot restart after caling one of the winconfig functions
- Import azure module from the pipeline to avoid errors when loading Boxstarter.azure
- Suppress errors when reenabling windows update in case they had alrady been reenabled
- Fix mis encoded dash in Install-Boxstarterackage
- Fix issues when Chocolatey packages create a new module and call chocolatey functions from that module
- When building packages, skip folders without a nuspec instead of throwing an error
- Only restart the explore process of the current user when calling windows config functions
- Fixing .net 4.5 install for local installs
- Fixing TestRunner module loading for PSv2 clients
- Add the following windows config features:
- Enable/Disable showing charms when mouse is in the upper right corner
- Enable/Disable switching apps when pointing in the upper left corner
- Enable/Disable the option to launch powershell from win-x
- Enable/Disable boot to desktop
- Enable/Disable desktop background on the start screen
- Enable/Disable showing the start screen on the active display
- Enable/Disable showing the Apps View by default on the start screen
- Enable/Disable searching everywhere in apps view. Not just apps.
- Enable/Disable showing desktop apps first in results
- Lock/Unlock task bar
- Change taskbar icon size
- Change location of taskbar docking
- Add test and publish automation that can point to remote deployment targets
- Provide build scripts for integration of tests and publishing in CI servers
- Include configured nuget sources and local repo to all chocolatey install calls and not just the initial package
- Fix enabling powershell remoting via WMI when password has ampersands
- Avoid explorer.exe crashes when configuring explorer options
- Fix Hyper-V heartbeat check in non US locales
- Fix Azure module loading in 32 bit consoles
- Fix shell shortcuts when user name has a space
- Fix Azure VM Checkpoint listing when there are more than one VM in a service
- Install .net 4.5 ONLY without affecting IIS settings when .net 4 is not present
- Fix Azure VM integration when multiple subscriptions are present
- Allow remote installs to be run by a non amin user
v2.4.183
- Pin to last PS chocolatey version until we finih new choco compatibility
- Fix running gists from weblauncher more than once in win7 and 2008 R2
- Suppress caught errors in Invoke-FromScheduledTask from bubbling up to final result
- Work around nuget.exe limitations of handling files in system profile directory
- Provide improved error logging of chocolatey errors.
- Fixes issue where windows update reboots maching in the midst of a run.
- Fixes failures from exceptions thrown from bitlocker module even when bitlocker is not in use.
- Fixes Invoke-Reboot from a nested package and bubbles up the reboot signal
- Update docs to reflect github as repo home and remove all codeplex links
- Fix for all write-host calls being logged to Boxstarter log file even when there is no install session in progress
- fixing issue where auto login is not disabled after boxstarter run
- fixing wait for published version to retry for a minute if the new version is not yet marked published
- Improve initial connectin performance by skipping remoting check if it has already been tested in enable-BoxstarterVM
- provide messaging for some winconfig functions
- fix the setting of azure storage account by looking for https endpoints
- load storage module before azure to workaround bug with the storage module loading
- copy the root path passed to New_BoxstarerPackage
- add a DisableRestart parameter which will suppress the restart file and UAC enabling
- Greatly improve progress messaging during windows updates runs
- Fix hang scenarios when waiting for remote machine to reboot and landing in a pending reboot state shortly after reboot
- Support for auto login and restart in winrm sessions
- Fix issue with remote check causing an indefinite loop
- Silencing some handled errors and keep them from leaking to the pipeline
- Reduce WMI calls and Improve performance of testing if the current session is remote
- When forcing the install of the outer boxstarter package, make sure to delete the last install from the right repo
- Check scheduled task output for pending reboots after a remote windows update since 32 bit processes cant read the wsus registry keys
- Fix Remote check when running as a servise
- System user logs to programdata
- when accessing a 64 bit machine from a 32bit process, the windowsupdate reg key is hidden so skip it
- Bubble up errors from windows update
- Provide the same scheduled task wrapping for winrm as we do for ps remoting
- fix explorer restart when there is no explorer process
- Correcting fallback Chocolatey install path to match release 0.9.8.24
- Fixing typo param name in redirect call to set-WindowsExplorerOptions
- Fix InvalidArgument from Set-TaskbarOptions when using lock or unlock params
- Fix issues where explorer terminates and cannot restart after caling one of the winconfig functions
- Import azure module from the pipeline to avoid errors when loading Boxstarter.azure
- Suppress errors when reenabling windows update in case they had alrady been reenabled
- Fix mis encoded dash in Install-Boxstarterackage
- Fix issues when Chocolatey packages create a new module and call chocolatey functions from that module
- When building packages, skip folders without a nuspec instead of throwing an error
- Only restart the explore process of the current user when calling windows config functions
- Fixing .net 4.5 install for local installs
- Fixing TestRunner module loading for PSv2 clients
- Add the following windows config features:
- Enable/Disable showing charms when mouse is in the upper right corner
- Enable/Disable switching apps when pointing in the upper left corner
- Enable/Disable the option to launch powershell from win-x
- Enable/Disable boot to desktop
- Enable/Disable desktop background on the start screen
- Enable/Disable showing the start screen on the active display
- Enable/Disable showing the Apps View by default on the start screen
- Enable/Disable searching everywhere in apps view. Not just apps.
- Enable/Disable showing desktop apps first in results
- Lock/Unlock task bar
- Change taskbar icon size
- Change location of taskbar docking
- Add test and publish automation that can point to remote deployment targets
- Provide build scripts for integration of tests and publishing in CI servers
- Include configured nuget sources and local repo to all chocolatey install calls and not just the initial package
- Fix enabling powershell remoting via WMI when password has ampersands
- Avoid explorer.exe crashes when configuring explorer options
- Fix Hyper-V heartbeat check in non US locales
- Fix Azure module loading in 32 bit consoles
- Fix shell shortcuts when user name has a space
- Fix Azure VM Checkpoint listing when there are more than one VM in a service
- Install .net 4.5 ONLY without affecting IIS settings when .net 4 is not present
- Fix Azure VM integration when multiple subscriptions are present
- Allow remote installs to be run by a non amin user
v2.4.180
- Pin to last PS chocolatey version until we finih new choco compatibility
- Fix running gists from weblauncher more than once in win7 and 2008 R2
- Suppress caught errors in Invoke-FromScheduledTask from bubbling up to final result
- Work around nuget.exe limitations of handling files in system profile directory
- Provide improved error logging of chocolatey errors.
- Fixes issue where windows update reboots maching in the midst of a run.
- Fixes failures from exceptions thrown from bitlocker module even when bitlocker is not in use.
- Fixes Invoke-Reboot from a nested package and bubbles up the reboot signal
- Update docs to reflect github as repo home and remove all codeplex links
- Fix for all write-host calls being logged to Boxstarter log file even when there is no install session in progress
- fixing issue where auto login is not disabled after boxstarter run
- fixing wait for published version to retry for a minute if the new version is not yet marked published
- Improve initial connectin performance by skipping remoting check if it has already been tested in enable-BoxstarterVM
- provide messaging for some winconfig functions
- fix the setting of azure storage account by looking for https endpoints
- load storage module before azure to workaround bug with the storage module loading
- copy the root path passed to New_BoxstarerPackage
- add a DisableRestart parameter which will suppress the restart file and UAC enabling
- Greatly improve progress messaging during windows updates runs
- Fix hang scenarios when waiting for remote machine to reboot and landing in a pending reboot state shortly after reboot
- Support for auto login and restart in winrm sessions
- Fix issue with remote check causing an indefinite loop
- Silencing some handled errors and keep them from leaking to the pipeline
- Reduce WMI calls and Improve performance of testing if the current session is remote
- When forcing the install of the outer boxstarter package, make sure to delete the last install from the right repo
- Check scheduled task output for pending reboots after a remote windows update since 32 bit processes cant read the wsus registry keys
- Fix Remote check when running as a servise
- System user logs to programdata
- when accessing a 64 bit machine from a 32bit process, the windowsupdate reg key is hidden so skip it
- Bubble up errors from windows update
- Provide the same scheduled task wrapping for winrm as we do for ps remoting
- fix explorer restart when there is no explorer process
- Correcting fallback Chocolatey install path to match release 0.9.8.24
- Fixing typo param name in redirect call to set-WindowsExplorerOptions
- Fix InvalidArgument from Set-TaskbarOptions when using lock or unlock params
- Fix issues where explorer terminates and cannot restart after caling one of the winconfig functions
- Import azure module from the pipeline to avoid errors when loading Boxstarter.azure
- Suppress errors when reenabling windows update in case they had alrady been reenabled
- Fix mis encoded dash in Install-Boxstarterackage
- Fix issues when Chocolatey packages create a new module and call chocolatey functions from that module
- When building packages, skip folders without a nuspec instead of throwing an error
- Only restart the explore process of the current user when calling windows config functions
- Fixing .net 4.5 install for local installs
- Fixing TestRunner module loading for PSv2 clients
- Add the following windows config features:
- Enable/Disable showing charms when mouse is in the upper right corner
- Enable/Disable switching apps when pointing in the upper left corner
- Enable/Disable the option to launch powershell from win-x
- Enable/Disable boot to desktop
- Enable/Disable desktop background on the start screen
- Enable/Disable showing the start screen on the active display
- Enable/Disable showing the Apps View by default on the start screen
- Enable/Disable searching everywhere in apps view. Not just apps.
- Enable/Disable showing desktop apps first in results
- Lock/Unlock task bar
- Change taskbar icon size
- Change location of taskbar docking
- Add test and publish automation that can point to remote deployment targets
- Provide build scripts for integration of tests and publishing in CI servers
- Include configured nuget sources and local repo to all chocolatey install calls and not just the initial package
- Fix enabling powershell remoting via WMI when password has ampersands
- Avoid explorer.exe crashes when configuring explorer options
- Fix Hyper-V heartbeat check in non US locales
- Fix Azure module loading in 32 bit consoles
- Fix shell shortcuts when user name has a space
- Fix Azure VM Checkpoint listing when there are more than one VM in a service
- Install .net 4.5 ONLY without affecting IIS settings when .net 4 is not present
- Fix Azure VM integration when multiple subscriptions are present
- Allow remote installs to be run by a non amin user