What Is Chocolatey Central Management?

In our sixth back-to-basics livestream, we covered Chocolatey Central Management (CCM). This blog post gives an overview of what's discussed in the video, and provides links to the documentation used to set up and upgrade CCM, along with the documentation on all the bells and whistles!

What is Chocolatey Central Management?

Chocolatey Central Management is a single pane of glass from which an organization can manage the software installed across all of their endpoints. It provides visibility when those endpoints check-in with Chocolatey Central Management to report currently installed Chocolatey packages and whether any of those packages are outdated, giving you full control from a single seat to be able to install, upgrade, or uninstall Chocolatey packages throughout the environment.

What can Chocolatey Central Management do for me?

Chocolatey Central Management offers you a detailed look inside each endpoint showing which Chocolatey packages are currently installed and whether they're outdated, providing the ability to report on this status for licensing or compliance. You're able to install, upgrade and even uninstall Chocolatey packages with a Basic Deployment from the CCM interface. You can also run remote PowerShell with an Advanced Deployment, allowing you to accomplish anything you can with PowerShell on any endpoint, such as setting registry keys, creating directories and adding files, etc.

How do I install Chocolatey Central Management?

If you're looking to set up Chocolatey Central Management in your Chocolatey for Business environment, you can reference our Setup documentation here. Alternatively, if you already have Chocolatey Central Management installed and are looking to upgrade to the latest version, our upgrade documentation has you covered!

What data is available in Chocolatey Central Management?

The documentation we have on Chocolatey Central Management is extensive and includes configuration topics as well as screenshots of all the tabs and features. For a detailed dive into Chocolatey Central Management and all it has to offer, head over to our documentation.

Where can I find out more information about Chocolatey Central Management?

Watch our back-to-basics livestream, see our Chocolatey Central Management documentation or reach out for community assistance on our Community Hub.

Wrap Up

This is the sixth post in our back-to-basics series, and we look forward to continuing to expand the series. Please do let us know if there are specific topics you would like to see covered!

Thanks for watching and listening!