Install Chocolatey Remotely on Domain Computers

dbeato

Enable PS Remoting in your Domain by following the Guide here

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/enable-powershell-remoting-to-enable-running-command

Then run this Powershell Script from a System with the Active Directory Powershell Modules installed: (Example below only installs it on the computers that are less or equal than 2 months old)

Import-Module ActiveDirectory

# get today's date
$today = Get-Date

#Get today - 60 days (2 month old)
$cutoffdate = $today.AddDays(-60)

$computers= Get-ADComputer -Properties * -Filter {LastLogonDate -gt $cutoffdate} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Name


foreach ($comp in $computers)
{
   Invoke-Command -computername $comp {Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))}
}

Script is below
https://github.com/dbeato/scripts/blob/master/Chocolatey/Install-Chocolatey-AD.ps1

This can be automated and changed as well to fit your needs.

scottalanmiller

This is some awesome stuff.

wrx7m

Nice! I was thinking about doing this soon.