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OK, just found another one with the same empty structure and failing to install Chocolatey. There's around 200 machines on a site I'm trying to roll this out on now with around 70 that are failing and I'm having to go through them manually now to determine why. I deleted the empty structure and aske...

These are fresh installs, never had Choclatey on them before so whatever the latest one is 10-something

That's a pain then. If choco.exe goes walkabout, the Chocolatey script won't fix it and none of the apps will ever update! Are you *sure* that's where portable apps go? I've not got any portable apps but I do have 7zip in there but 7zip itself is installed in C:\Program Files\7-Zip. <Later> Looks li...

Before I posted I replaced %computerid% with the ID of the computer and got the same result

Looks to me like it is needed!

I'm in the process of writing an Automate script to do this but if the plugin can be made more robust and self healing then that would be the sensible option.

It returns 2796 which is the ID of the Automate server which is called Automate and does not appear in the list.

The folder "C:\ProgramData\chocolatey" is empty apart from an empty folder called "lib" I guess the Chocolatey script sees the folder and assumes it's all OK but your script looks for the .exe Just confirmed that theory. I ran the Chocolatey default install script and got the sam...

After another round of uninstalling, rebooting the Automate server (Followed by a complete loss of connectivity to the Control server which wasted a morning) and another install of the plugin, this error seems to have gone again, for now. It was one site which had all locations enabled. It happened ...

The maintenance script runs the Powershell which results in WARNING: An existing Chocolatey installation was detected. Installation will not continue. For security reasons, this script will not overwrite existing installations. Please use choco upgrade chocolatey to handle upgrades of Chocolatey its...

And the same error is back again :x LTAgent v210.82 - 6/8/2021 9:15:09 AM - Plugin ChocolateyForAutomate, Version=3.0.0.42, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null: [Agent Command] Agent ID [986] is in an inactive location. Skipping command.::: The location is not inactive according to the locations sc...