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Windows 10 Subscription Activation via Powershell
Thanks for the response. I made the change based on your suggestion and what this did was pull up the GUI version of the windows key activation where it asks to manually enter the key. Progress, you could say, but this script needs to be silent and input that information on it's own. This gives me something to work on, but if you have any more suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it.
OK, I'll admit I didn't validate the actual process you were running initially; it looked visually OK at a first glance.
Some quick playing shows that changePK.exe seems to suck when called via Start-Process or Invoke-Expression. So, what I've done instead is switch to another licensing utility instead, slmgr.vbs.
Try this:
$ProductKey = (Get-CimInstance -ClassName SoftwareLicensingService).OA3xOriginalProductKey
if ($null -ne $ProductKey)
{
Start-Process -FilePath "c:\Windows\System32\slmgr.vbs" -ArgumentList "/ipk $ProductKey"
}
- Figured it out. Had to add -filepath after start-process. It now activates the embedded key! Thank you so much!
$ProductKey = (Get-CimInstance -ClassName SoftwareLicensingService).OA3xOriginalProductKey
if ($null -ne $ProductKey)
{
start-process -filepath c:\Windows\System32\changePK.exe -ArgumentList "/ProductKey $ProductKey"
}
Totally native Powershell & remote activation:cls $computer = $env:computername $ProductKey = (Get-CimInstance -ClassName SoftwareLicensingService).OA3xOriginalProductKey if ($ProductKey) { write-debug "set $ProductKey" $service = get-wmiObject -query "select * from SoftwareLicensingService" -computername $computer $service.InstallProductKey($ProductKey ) $service.RefreshLicenseStatus() $service.RefreshLicenseStatus() write-debug "done" }else{ write-debug 'Key not found!' }Interesting! I could have sworn I tried formatting the command fully with the -FilePath in my lab and it didn't work, hence I change over at all.
I'm glad we got there in the end! :)
- The command won't work if you're running it on a VM or a machine without an embedded key in the mobo, so perhaps that's why?
Thank you again for your assistance. I appreciate it quite a bit.
