Windows-Corp-Post-Install

All the things I do to install single-user or non-administrative software as much as possible on my corporate provided laptop.

Updates and updaters

Work with IT Services to get updater and admin-only apps running:

Thycotic "request run as thycotic admin"
Lenovo Commercial Vantage
F5 VPN

Install from Company Portal

7-zip
PuTTY
Notepad++
Citrix Workspace
SQL Server Management Studio (w/ Azure Data Studio)
Greenshot

Non-Admin runner

Save to a file "RunAsInvoker.bat"

cmd /min /C "set __COMPAT_LAYER=RUNASINVOKER && start "" %1"

Drag and drop programs on this to run as non-admin.

Powershell

Install-Module -Name "SqlServer" -Scope CurrentUser

Chocolatey

https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/choco/setup#non-administrative-install

Create the file: "ChocolateyInstallNonAdmin.ps1"

# Set directory for installation - Chocolatey does not lock
# down the directory if not the default
$InstallDir='C:\ProgramData\chocoportable'
$env:ChocolateyInstall="$InstallDir"

# If your PowerShell Execution policy is restrictive, you may
# not be able to get around that. Try setting your session to
# Bypass.
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force;

# All install options - offline, proxy, etc at
# https://chocolatey.org/install
iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

Make sure you change the $InstallDir to whatever you actually want.

In a Powershell session run:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force;

Then run the ChocolateyInstallNonAdmin.ps1 file.

Apps that can be installed:

choco install git.commandline -y
# choco install notepadplusplus.commandline -y
# choco install 7zip.portable -y

Other options:

https://community.chocolatey.org/packages?q=id%3Aportable

Apps to install with the RunAsInvoker.bat

Password Safe - https://www.pwsafe.org/
mRemoteNG - https://mremoteng.org/

Apps to install from Microsoft Store

OneNote for Windows 10 ? -- apears unavailable now

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