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Learning Puppet for Windows Server
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Learning Puppet for Windows Server

by Fuat Ulugay
August 2015
Beginner
234 pages
4h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using Chocolatey to update a software

One of the challenges for IT is to keep the client software up to date. It is easy for Windows updates that can be handled automatically. However, when it comes to third-party softwares, the updates may become a burden. Next, we will see how Puppet and Chocolatey deal with updates.

As an example, we will use the Java Runtime installation. We will first install an older version and see whether it is updated correctly. Here is the package that we will use:

Using Chocolatey to update a software

When we scroll down, we will also see some older versions. We will first install the older version, 7.0.75. We will do it manually from Command Prompt:

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