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People often ask questions during Introduction to Puppet Enterprise webinars. Here are answers to help you get started quickly with Puppet Enterprise.

Chocolatey is a package manager that lets you manage all aspects of Windows software. Learn how to use Puppet to configure & control Chocolatey.

Puppet CIO Nigel Kersten interviews local sci-fi author William Hertling, whose book Kill Process includes a scene at Puppet headquarters.

Preconfigured node groups are the basis for classification and management of PE. It’s important they are configured correctly.

Puppet has been actively involved with Label Schema, a community effort to agree on some basic metadata standards for use with Docker containers.

Puppetizing Infrastructure is a three-day online course that emphasizes the best tools and design patterns for production Puppet Enterprise.

PuppetConf in San Diego — what a great idea! We’ll start the week right with Icinga Camp on 18 October.

Meet Rob Reynolds, creator of Chocolatey, the package manager for Windows and speaker at PuppetConf 2016.

Steve Curtis of ANZ talks the philosophy of abstraction and how it lets us turn incomprehensible streams of bits into functional software.

Learn how your DevOps practitioner or DevOps manager salary compares to DevOps salaries in your market, in this new survey of DevOps salary trends.

With the release of Puppet Agent 1.6, and the recently released Puppet images on Docker Hub, you can use Puppet to manage VMware Photon OS hosts.

Learn about the upgrade process, tools, and services we offer to help you upgrade with higher confidence and less risk.

Learn how you can install a Puppet Enterprise-only module on a machine that doesn’t have internet access. For use with Puppet Enterprise 2016.2.x.

Bad NTP configs can break your infrastructure in seconds. Puppet Enterprise can keep them consistent across all your servers. Here’s how.

Forgotten Cron jobs can wreak havoc on systems. Learn how to automate and manage all your Cron jobs with Puppet.

The practical uses of the wsus_client module, plus some custom facts and how to streamline the Windows update process with Puppet code.

Learn how to quickly deploy IIS and ASP.NET to Windows Server with Puppet.

As part of our Puppet Upgrade program, we recently conducted a webinar discussing how to upgrade to Puppet Enterprise 2016.2. Many great questions came up during the Q&A, so we decided to share the most common questions here and provide some additional detail.