Setup

• Admin rights set up?

  • Make sure Mike has given my network account admin privileges

  • Add local admin account

$Password = Read-Host -AsSecureString

Password

New-LocalUser "MTaylor" -Password $Password -FullName "Mr Taylor" -Description "LocalAdmin"

Add-LocalGroupMember -Group 'Administrators' -Member Mtaylor -Verbose

• Check if able to establish PSSession

  • If needed:

    • Powershell

      • Enable-psremoting

• Run Software Centre to update existing programs

• Install Choco using Powershell

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

 $PROFILE

 choco feature enable -name allowGlobalConfirmation

If an error occurs,

Remove-Item -Path "C:\ProgramData\chocolatey" -Recurse -Force

• Run primary choco install

  •   choco install -y --no-progress --allusers Vscode vscode-vsliveshare python nodejs powershell-core veyon exit

  •   Restart-computer

  •   Choco update or install retry if needed

• Install additional software

Create folder c:\Install

New-Item -Path "C:\Install" -ItemType Directory