Windows 10 Subscription Activation via Powershell
We recently purchased E3 Subscription licenses for Windows 10. Microsoft's documentation states for exisiting enterprise deployments, the following script should be ran via a command line: @echo off FOR /F "skip=1" %%A IN ('wmic path SoftwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey') DO ( SET "ProductKey=%%A" goto InstallKey ) :InstallKey IF [%ProductKey%]==[] ( echo No key present ) ELSE ( echo Installing %ProductKey% changepk.exe /ProductKey %ProductKey% ) I'm attempting to re-write this in powershell so we can use it as a remediation step in a configuration baseline in SCCM. Below is the powershell script I wrote: $ProductKey = (Get-CimInstance -ClassName SoftwareLicensingService).OA3xOriginalProductKey if ($ProductKey){ start-process c:\Windows\System32\changePK.exe -ArgumentList "/ProductKey $ProductKey" } The script runs without error, but it's not actually completing the intended task (activating the embedded windows 10 pro key). I'm not sure where I'm going wrong. I'm pretty new to powershell so any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
PowerShell Automation for Verifying MST
Just finished putting together a script to Apply an MST to an MSI then read out the property table. This is for an automation process to verify a submited MSI and MST meet our packaging standards. Need a little sanity check as working with COM objects is not a strong point for me. Really want to make sure I am closing the files correctly after applying the transform then querying the database. I wasn't able to delete the temp files running in Powershell ISE until I did the ReleaseComObject. I didn't have to do that when working with the straight MSI and just pull the properties from it so I hope this is not corrupting any files. # Apply MST to an MSI # Based on Code from: https://hinchley.net/articles/update-cab-file-and-msi-transform-via-command-line/ $SourceMSI = "C:\Temp\MSI\MSI-x64.msi" $SourceMST = "C:\Temp\MSI\MSI.mst" $TempMSI = "$SourceMSI.tmp" $TempMST = "$SourceMST.tmp" Copy-Item $SourceMSI $TempMSI -Force Copy-Item $SourceMST $TempMST -Force $WindowsInstaller = New-Object -ComObject WindowsInstaller.Installer #Open the database in Direct read/write without Transaction (2) $MSIDatabase1 = $WindowsInstaller.GetType().InvokeMember('OpenDatabase' , 'InvokeMethod' , $Null, $WindowsInstaller, @($TempMSI, 2)) #$MSIDatabase1.applytransform($TempMST, 0) $MSIDatabase1.GetType().InvokeMember('ApplyTransform' , 'InvokeMethod' , $Null , $MSIDatabase1 , @($TempMST, 0)) $Query = ("SELECT Property,Value FROM Property") #Opens a data view to the MSI based on the query created. $View = $MSIDatabase1.GetType().InvokeMember('OpenView', 'InvokeMethod', $null, $MSIDatabase1, ($Query)) $null = $View.GetType().InvokeMember('Execute', 'InvokeMethod', $null, $View, $null) $hash = @{} # Add File information (Note this adds the full File information Porperties so can call with <Var>.File |Select * $hash.Add('File',$TempMSI) WHILE ($Record = $View.GetType().InvokeMember('Fetch', 'InvokeMethod', $null, $View, $null)) { $name = $Record.GetType().InvokeMember('StringData', 'GetProperty', $null, $Record, 1) $value = $hashMSIValue = $Record.GetType().InvokeMember('StringData', 'GetProperty', $null, $Record, 2) $hash.Add($name,$value) } # Push Hash table into a PSCustom object $msiProperties = [pscustomobject]$hash # I'm not sure If I have everything required to close out here properly from applying the transform. $null = $MSIDatabase1.GetType().InvokeMember('Commit' , 'InvokeMethod' , $Null , $MSIDatabase1 , $Null) $null = $view.GetType().InvokeMember('Close', 'InvokeMethod', $null, $view, $null) # Really important part to be able to release the opened files and delete $null = [Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($view) $null = [Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($MSIDatabase1) $null = [Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($WindowsInstaller) [GC]::Collect()
