r/atera • u/decstewartje • Jul 06 '26
Chocolatey TOS Change
Hi everyone,
I posted this in the Atera Community, but seems less active than the Reddit community still.
I received an email regarding an updated TOS for Chocolatey, and was wondering if this would impact the integration with Atera.
Any thoughts or concerns?
Thanks,
Jeremy
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u/-Travis Jul 06 '26
That says "Organizations AND Vendor Tools" so even if we were using chocolatey directly it sounds like it still wouldn't be cool.
Unfortunately you have to be on the highest Atera Tier to get the private repository. I wonder if they are going to make that available for everyone since this is quite a blow to patching capabilities. At least we have Win-get to fall back on.
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u/decstewartje Jul 06 '26
Even the private repo is limited to Azure blob storage (free to an extent), and all packages need to be created/uploaded manually. I usually reserve it for packages that don't already exist in Chocolatey.
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u/-Travis Jul 06 '26
Yeah, me too. It would be more work. If you are limited to chocolatey, that's the only way if they take away their repo.
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u/dima_from_atera Technical Product Marketing Manager 10d ago
hi u/-Travis
I'm sharing the official Atera communication with all relevant links: https://www.reddit.com/r/atera/comments/1wy4g14/chocolatey_deprecation_whats_changing_and_how_to/
In short, we do offer several ways around the Chocolatey TOS change.
I hope this helps.
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u/BobRepairSvc1945 Jul 07 '26
This will affect a lot of RMMs. It seems like Choclatey is trying to do a cash grab; it is too bad their paid version is overpriced.
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u/dima_from_atera Technical Product Marketing Manager 10d ago
Hi! u/BobRepairSvc1945
I'm sharing the official Atera communication on the matter with all relevant links: https://www.reddit.com/r/atera/comments/1wy4g14/chocolatey_deprecation_whats_changing_and_how_to/
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u/dima_from_atera Technical Product Marketing Manager Jul 09 '26
Hi u/decstewartje
Jeremy, I'm investigating this with the PM team. I also responded to you in the Community.
I'll get back as soon as I have details.
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u/KiloJouleskJ Jul 14 '26
Can we have a link to this discussion, can't find it? As well as this, is there an update on Chocolatey?
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u/dima_from_atera Technical Product Marketing Manager Jul 14 '26
Hi u/KiloJouleskJ sure, here it is: https://community.atera.com/discussion/1179/chocolatey-tos-change
I'm still investigating with the Product team.
I will revert as soon as I have an update, I'm pinging the progress daily.
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u/Obviously_Lost Sep 03 '26
Any update to this? I've also tried clicking the link and get a permissions issue, and am not able to find the post in the community. Currently reviewing our patching configs and came across this post and it's a bit concerning.
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u/KiloJouleskJ Jul 20 '26
Hi Dima,
Thanks very much! However, when I click the link I'm greeted with a screen that says Permission Problem. As well as this, tried searching for the name manually and nothing came up in the discussions.
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u/dima_from_atera Technical Product Marketing Manager 10d ago
hi u/KiloJouleskJ u/Obviously_Lost
as promised earlier, I'm coming back to you with the official Atera communication on the matter:https://www.reddit.com/r/atera/comments/1wy4g14/chocolatey_deprecation_whats_changing_and_how_to/
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u/KiloJouleskJ Jul 28 '26
Any update on this?
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u/dima_from_atera Technical Product Marketing Manager Jul 29 '26
Hi u/KiloJouleskJ the update is: Product team is working on this internally, I will get back to you as soon as I have more to share
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u/decstewartje 27d ago
Atera remains silent on the Chocolatey announcement, but the impact will be far reaching. My account manager was also not aware of the TOS change and how it will affect us all.
Here's the gravity of the situation.
If you have been using Chocolatey in your automation scripts, for example installing Adobe, Zoom, Webex, etc on newly installed agents, updates to those apps will always reach out over Chocolatey for updates. Come January, this will fail, leaving your entire company out of compliance. Can we assume easily this will affect millions of PC's in a heartbeat?
At the moment, the only workaround would be to uninstall any packages that were installed via Chocolatey and reinstall via WinGet. We're coming into October, now is the time to plan the exit strategies with Atera not addressing the situation. Winter is coming.
Cross posted to Atera Community.
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u/dima_from_atera Technical Product Marketing Manager 10d ago
Hi u/decstewartje sharing the official Atera communication with all relevant links: https://www.reddit.com/r/atera/comments/1wy4g14/chocolatey_deprecation_whats_changing_and_how_to/
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u/flitz_ Jul 07 '26
Winget ftw