Managing Software with Chocolatey - Automate installation and updates of your applications

Software management is not trivial task. Preparing for silent deployment is challenging, and even if you manage to install the application, how to keep it up to date? Chocolatey is package manager for Windows, that can fully automate lifecycle of your software. In this video, I’ll show you how to install Chocolatey, then how to find software, install it and finally keeping it up to date - all coming with free open-source license....

10 March 2021 · 1 min · 134 words · Kamil

Add any drivers to Windows – on example of GPU drivers

Today we are going to inject drivers into the Windows image with the help of built-in tools in Windows. What do you need? Just a few things: Any hardware to which you’d like drivers to be added to Reference computer with the hardware attached to it Drivers Windows image which is going to be deployed I think there’s not much to explain, so let’s analyse the actual process. What we are going to do?...

29 May 2017 · 8 min · 1594 words · Kamil

Mastering PNPUTIL – how to add drivers to the Windows image

Drivers – that’s what makes a harmony between hardware and software. Appropriate drivers can make a huge difference between computer’s performance, stability and even temperature. Therefore it’s super important to make sure you’ve got up-to-date files included with your image or Windows installation. We are going to review PNPUTIL tool – the versatile tool for handling drivers within the Windows. Why do you need PNPUTIL? Yes, why bother with some command line tool (PNPUTIL is command line only) when there are dedicated installers and device manager?...

1 May 2017 · 5 min · 870 words · Kamil

Why certification matters?

I gained most of my experience by doing and working things out. Quite often I was reinventing the wheel and discovering already discovered lands. Well, that gave me a lot practice, and no doubts, made me who I am now. But how could I actually proof my skills? ...

21 January 2016 · 5 min · 892 words · Kamil