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Boxstarter and checksums

Thu, 22 Sep 2016 21:04:00 +0100

I’ve blogged before about using BoxStarter to efficiently provision a new development machine.

This is working very well for our developers. Maintaining the installation script takes a bit of effort but the benefits are worth it.

Recently, the chocolatey developers have been making things more secure and recent versions now require a checksum with any downloaded package. For now, there seems to be some difficulty using Install-ChocolateyVsixPackage within BoxStarter scripts.

How to recursively change file ownership

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:40:00 +0100

I recently ran into some file ownership trouble after cloning a bitbucket repository.

The following script saved my bacon.

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# FixOwnership.ps1
# This script recursively fixes the ownership on the files in the 
# current and subdirectories.

$acct1 = New-Object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount('Administrators')
$profilefolder = Get-Item .
$acl1 = $profilefolder.GetAccessControl()
$acl1.SetOwner($acct1)
dir -r . | set-acl -aclobject $acl1
pause