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PowershellUncategorizedWindows 10Windows Server

Finding Windows Services That Are Stopped That Should Be Started With Powershell

This was a scriptlet that got heavy use on servers and even in our RMM. It can report back services on Windows servers and desktops are are in the Stopped state that are set to Auto or Enabled.

GWMI is short for Get-WmiObject

GWMI win32_service -Filter "startmode = 'auto' AND state != 'running'"  | select DisplayName, Name, StartMode, State, ExitCode | ft -auto
Microsoft AzureOffice365System AdministratorWindows 10

Issues Upgrading Windows 10 Pro to Enterprise with AzureAD and E5 Licenses

A client of ours wanted to upgrade their Windows 10 Professional licenses to Windows 10 Enterprise by way of E5 licensing in Office365 / Azure Active Directory.

Most computers worked fine, but a few just didn’t work and upgrade as they should have. There isn’t a lot of documentation on this, so I thought I’d put out there what worked for us and what we found. I ended up opening a ticket with Microsoft Escalated Support and worked with a rep over a few weeks.

First and foremost, make sure in Office365 that the E5 license has the option checked off for Windows 10 Enterprise.

First Troubleshooting Recommendation: dsregcmd

Run dsregcmd /status on the affected machine as the logged in user (and not a System or admin account).

If WamDefaultSet : ERROR and / or AzureAdPrt : NO are found, these would indicate an issue on Azure’s end. You want to see both answered with YES. These fields indicate whether the user has successfully authenticated to Azure AD when signing in to the device.

If the values are NO, it could be due to:

  • Bad storage key in the TPM associated with the device upon registration (check the KeySignTest while running elevated).
  • Alternate Login ID
  • HTTP Proxy not found

SecuritySystem AdministratorWindows 10

Reset Your Password in Windows 10 Bash / Ubuntu

If you forget your root password for Bash on Windows, you can do the following to reset your password:

First, run: lxrun /setdefaultuser root . This will open a new Bash window as root.

From there, run: passwd your_username and then enter your new root password

Then change the default user for Bash back to your user: lxrun /setdefaultuser your_username

 

That’s it! Enjoy Bash on Windows 10.

System AdministratorWindows 10

Windows 10 Will Let You Choose Which Drive to Store Default Folders On

With the growing popularity of SSDs, a lot of users have been using SSDs for boot drives and HDDs for storage. In Windows 10, there is an exciting new feature which will automatically and seamlessly let you choose what folders and files get put on a secondary HDD. This includes “My Documents”, “My Pictures”, and even applications.

The setting is under Settings > System > Storage and can be seen below:

Windows10Choice