Provisioning a clean machine

Owned by Selvyn Wright
Last updated: Oct 25, 2018
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If you have a clean machine with only something like Internet Explorer on the following guide can be used to quickly provision that machine

If you are using a pre 2016 server, install the following patch

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=51451

Here is the file in case the link above is no longer available

  1. Get a useful browser on there asap
    1. add chocolatey to your environment - 
      Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
    2. use chocolatey to install the browser of choice (google chrome install doesn't work properly, we recommend Opera or Firefox) - choco install opera
  2. For pre 2016 Windows Server install the patch stated above
  3. Now you have browser installed, use chocolatey to install git - choco install git
  4. Use git to pull down required resource files
  5. Continue to install other applications as needed