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Join our monthly Unpacking Software livestream to hear about the latest news, chat and opinion on packaging, software deployment and lifecycle management!

Join the Chocolatey Team on our regular monthly stream where we put a spotlight on the most recent Chocolatey product releases. You'll have a chance to have your questions answered in a live Ask Me Anything format.

Join us for the Chocolatey Coding Livestream, where members of our team dive into the heart of open source development by coding live on various Chocolatey projects. Tune in to witness real-time coding, ask questions, and gain insights into the world of package management. Don't miss this opportunity to engage with our team and contribute to the future of Chocolatey!

Webinar Replay from Wednesday, 30 March 2022
At Chocolatey Software we strive for simple, and teaching others. Let us teach you just how simple it could be to keep your 3rd party applications updated across your devices, all with Intune!

Join the Chocolatey Team as we discuss all things Community, what we do, how you can get involved and answer your Chocolatey questions.

Livestream from Thursday, 04 August 2022
Join Paul and Gary to hear more about the plans for the Chocolatey CLI in the not so distant future. We'll talk about some cool new features, long term asks from Customers and Community and how you can get involved!

Webinar from Wednesday, 17 January 2024
We are delighted to announce the release of Chocolatey Central Management v0.12.0, featuring seamless Deployment Plan creation, time-saving duplications, insightful Group Details, an upgraded Dashboard, bug fixes, user interface polishing, and refined documentation. As an added bonus we'll have members of our Solutions Engineering team on-hand to dive into some interesting ways you can leverage the new features available!

Livestream from Thursday, 9 June 2022
Join James and Josh to show you how you can get the Chocolatey For Business recommended infrastructure and workflow, created, in Azure, in around 20 minutes.

Livestreams from October 2022
For Hacktoberfest, Chocolatey ran a livestream every Tuesday! Re-watch Cory, James, Gary, and Rain as they share knowledge on how to contribute to open-source projects such as Chocolatey CLI.

There are a lot of different installer formats and multiple approaches to deploying Windows software. Deploying software without package management on Windows can be complicated and time-consuming.

Chocolatey simplifies this through simple, repeatable, and automated approach, by using a universal packaging format for managing all Windows software. Regardless if installers are; native, zips, scripts, binaries or in-house developed - Chocolatey treats them as all 1st class citizens.

Write once, deploy anywhere, with anything, and then simply track & manage.

System engineers can spend hours deploying & configuring Windows software manually. Traditional tools are just not built for modern automation and a DevOps approach. Gaining insights and consistency across your environment is not always easy.

Chocolatey for Business (C4B) has helped hundreds of system admins save time, reduce downtime, and accelerate deployments.

Chocolatey for Business (C4B) is Complete Software Management. Built on our popular open source offering.

Focused on three value-added areas; improved security, enhanced productivity features, and enabling more visibility. All backed with dedicated support, services, & roadmap.

  • Closely aligned to organizational use cases - rapid deployment & highly scalable
  • More visual interfaces (GUIs) & smoother user experience
  • Special advanced functionality i.e Package Creation, Package Internalizer, Package Audit, Package Synchronizer, Self-Service Installer
  • Easy migration path from open source
  • Deep integration with leading technologies

Real-time Insights with Chocolatey Central Management

  • Full package visibility
  • Installed software packages
  • Status reporting

Accelerate Deployments & Reduce the Effort

  • Automate your Windows Package Management Workflow
  • Build and deploy packages in seconds
  • Automate updates and integrate with DevOps tools
  • Build a private repository of packages
  • Quick Deployment Environment (QDE) simplifies set-up with ready to go virtual appliance

Improve Security & Controls

  • Offline & secure
  • Identify out of date packages fast
  • Package audit & detailed reporting
  • Integrate with virus scanning & malware protection tools

Integrates with Everything

  • Tight provider based integration with all configuration management tools
  • Integration with leading repositories, patch management, and software monitoring solutions

Self-Service & Enhanced User Experience

  • Simple approach to ensuring software is deployed to users with no 'admin rights' or in highly regulated & locked down environments
  • User-friendly, consistent, reliable approach without the need manual intervention
  • Central management and control aligned to organizational policies

Businesses Trust Chocolatey Software

Many organizations face the ongoing challenge of deploying and supporting various versions of software. Chocolatey allows organizations to automate and simplify the management of their complex Windows environments. Our customers have experienced a massive reduction in effort, improved speed of deployment, high reliability, and comprehensive reporting.