function Compare-InstalledChocoPackages {
    <#
.SYNOPSIS
    This function compares installed choco packages between servers

.DESCRIPTION
    Invoke Compare-InstalledChocoPackages -SourceServer foo.fh.local -targetServer bar.fh.local
    The function exposes these properties describing comparisons:
    .fullyMatchedPackages
    .missingFromSource
    .missingFromTarget
    .packageVersionMismatch
    .packageVersionMismatchDetails

.EXAMPLE
    Compare-InstalledChocoPackages -SourceServer foo.fh.local -targetServer bar.fh.local
    Compare the installed choco packages and determines similarities or differences

.INPUTS
    -SourceServer foo.fh.local -targetServer bar.fh.local

.OUTPUTS
    .fullyMatchedPackages
    .missingFromSource
    .missingFromTarget
    .packageVersionMismatch
    .packageVersionMismatchDetails

#>
    [CmdletBinding()]
    param (
        $SourceServer = ([System.Net.Dns]::GetHostByName(($env:computerName))).Hostname,
        $TargetServer
    )
    $logLead = Get-LogLeadName
    $providerStopWatch = [System.Diagnostics.StopWatch]::StartNew()

    # go get package list
    $serversToQuery = @($SourceServer, $TargetServer)
    $results = Get-RemoteInstalledChocoPackages -serversToQuery $serversToQuery

    # assign first result to source and second to target. order is based on index in $sessions
    foreach ($result in $results) {
        if ($result.pscomputername -eq $serversToQuery[0]) {
            $sourcePackages = ($result[$serversToQuery[0]])
        }
        if ($result.pscomputername -eq $serversToQuery[1]) {
            $targetPackages = ($result[$serversToQuery[1]])
        }
    }
    # select packages that match in both name and version
    $fullyMatchedPackages = @()
    foreach ($sourcepackage in $sourcePackages) {
        if ($targetPackages.contains($sourcepackage)) {
            $fullyMatchedPackages += $sourcepackage
        }
    }

    Write-Verbose "$logLead : Packages matching between $SourceServer & $TargetServer"

    # remove the versions from packages to make use of .contains method
    $targetPackageNames = @()
    foreach ($targetPackage in $targetPackages) {
        $targetPackageNames += $targetPackage.Split('|')[0]
    }
    # find packages entirely missing from target
    $missingFromTarget = @()
    foreach ($sourcepackage in $sourcePackages) {
        if (!$targetPackageNames.contains($sourcepackage.Split('|')[0])) {
            $missingFromTarget += $sourcepackage
        }
    }

    Write-Verbose "$logLead : Packages not installed on target machine $TargetServer"


    # find packages entirely missing from source but exist on target
    $sourcePackageNames = @()
    foreach ($sourcePackage in $sourcePackages) {
        $sourcePackageNames += $sourcePackage.Split('|')[0]
    }

    $missingFromSource = @()
    foreach ($targetPackage in $targetPackages) {
        if (!$sourcePackageNames.contains($targetPackage.Split('|')[0])) {
            $missingFromSource += $targetPackage
        }
    }

    Write-Verbose "$logLead : Packages not installed on source machine $SourceServer"

    # find packages that exist on source and target but may be version mismatched
    # recording both package name as well as detailed diff source -> target
    $nameMatchedPackages = @()
    $packageVersionMismatchDetails = @()
    $packageVersionMismatch = @()
    foreach ($sourcePackage in $sourcePackages) {
        if ($targetPackageNames.contains($sourcepackage.Split('|')[0])) {
            $nameMatchedPackages += $sourcePackage
        }
    }

    foreach ($nameMatchedPackage in $nameMatchedPackages) {
        if (!$targetPackages.Contains($nameMatchedPackage)) {
            $packageVersionMismatch += $nameMatchedPackage.Split('|')[0]
            $packageVersionMismatchDetails += ( $nameMatchedPackage + " -> " + ($targetPackages -like ( "$($nameMatchedPackage.Split('|')[0])|*" ) ) )
        }
    }

    $fullyMatchedPackages = Format-ParseChocoPackages $fullyMatchedPackages
    $missingFromSource = Format-ParseChocoPackages $missingFromSource
    $missingFromTarget = Format-ParseChocoPackages $missingFromTarget
    $packageVersionMismatch = Format-ParseChocoPackages $packageVersionMismatch

    # organize comparisons done above into dict
    $comparedPackageLists = @{ }
    $comparedPackageLists += @{ fullyMatchedPackages = $fullyMatchedPackages }
    $comparedPackageLists += @{ missingFromSource = $missingFromSource }
    $comparedPackageLists += @{ missingFromTarget = $missingFromTarget }
    $comparedPackageLists += @{ packageVersionMismatch = $packageVersionMismatch }
    $comparedPackageLists += @{ packageVersionMismatchDetails = $packageVersionMismatchDetails }


    Write-Verbose "$logLead : [$($providerStopWatch.Elapsed)] : comparisons complete"
    $providerStopWatch.Stop()
    return $comparedPackageLists
}