Windows 10 as a service is already a thing for enterprise and it seems like recent consumer versions have been leaning more that way as well. Everyone's getting on the Netflix / gym membership subscription model these days. I'm not a fan but I get it.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3094785/yes-windows-10-subscriptions-are-coming-at-least-for-enterprise.html

For the record, at 10:30 in the video you talk about the original RoIT site failing. It was never released to the public as such, we played around with the idea of it for a while but setting up a non-profit entity and all that's involved in that was way more work and money than we'd originally thought. We decided not to go forward with the project since but I don't think that really counts as failing. I'm glad someone pointed to the WBM link, I had forgotten that we'd made the domain name into a rick roll, that made me smile.

@JustRob said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

@scottalanmiller said:

I wonder who will be new over the weekend.

Howdy

I guess I'm back again, how is everyone?

@scottalanmiller said:

@JustRob said:

Can you set the chocolatey program to use a specific network share for the repository, instead of connecting to the same website on every machine? This would be really useful on networks behind firewalls with no internet access or really poor internet connectivity.

That's something that I would have to research. But I would be surprised if you can't. Although you can definitely use a proxy to do that.

You can set up a proxy to take requests for files from a website and pull them from a file share instead?

@scottalanmiller said:

@JustRob said:

Can you use chocolaty in a workgroup environment where there is a standard local user & common password?

Chocolatey doesn't use AD. It just needs local admin privileges. Any admin account can be used.

So do you have to be logged in with the same account on the machine you are pushing the updates from / running the remote command from (source) as is used on the machine you are updating (target)? Or can you specify in the update command on your source machine what credentials to use on the target machine(s)?

Would it be possible to get Chocolatey to output it's results to a log file or somehow report on the progress / result of the update / install? It would be good to know for sure what programs got updated, or more importantly if any of the updates failed.

Can you set the chocolatey program to use a specific network share for the repository, instead of connecting to the same website on every machine? This would be really useful on networks behind firewalls with no internet access or really poor internet connectivity.

Can you use chocolaty in a workgroup environment where there is a standard local user & common password?

@scottalanmiller said:

@JustRob said:

Looks like some fun toys. Do we all get to play?

Afraid it is all internal

So you are just teasing us then? Seems fair!

Looks like some fun toys. Do we all get to play?

@ajstringham said:

@JustRob I agree. However, other places base it off contributions (kinda). You already have a post counter shown for you on each post. Would make more sense to use reputation to show competence. IMHO

Exactly, that's why I suggested keeping the points where the real content is, in the IT side of things. Toilet talk is just the extra fluff around it that helps build community and familiarity with other users.

@scottalanmiller said:

@JustRob said:

So, what's with the name? Why name an IT website after an Indian fruity drink?

Cute, easy to remember, neutral. And there is a hidden pun in there somewhere too. I imagine that it being a popular drink to cool down after eating spicy food has nothing to do with it.

And helps to counteract the butthurt that comes with it I guess?

That depends on what you want to get out of your points system. If it is intended to be an IT community it makes sense to keep the points where the real content is, the rest is just anncilary really.

Not knocking it, just interested. I've only had a quick look through some of the threads and have seen a lot of 'points' based on funny answers and such. I'm interested to see how that plays out as the site grows.

So, what's with the name? Why name an IT website after an Indian fruity drink?

So reputation is what people think of our posts, not any scale of technical competency?

From abs & beer bellies to Indiana Jones. Nice derail

@scottalanmiller said:

I wonder who will be new over the weekend.

Howdy