Windows 10: Subscription going active and Inactive

jediken · Sep 14, 2019

Hello i have a question about Windows Event Forwarding. i was able to set it up and used the Source initiated collector method and added servers successfully to my subscription. My only problem is that most of the devices added show active and then goes inactive and vice-versa. what is the cause of that

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jediken · Sep 25, 2019

Subscription going active and Inactive

Hello i have a question about Windows Event Forwarding. i was able to set it up and used the Source initiated collector method and added servers successfully to my subscription. My only problem is that most of the devices added show active and then goes
inactive and vice-versa. what is the cause of that

NavyLCDR · Sep 25, 2019

How do I change the designation of a drive from active to inactive?

The only thing the active flag does is mark that partition as a possible boot partition for MBR partitioned drives on legacy BIOS computers (or UEFI computers set to boot in legacy BIOS or CSM mode).

To remove the active flag, open Command Prompt (Admin) then:

diskpart
list disk
select disk # <- replace # with the disk number of the drive you think has the active partition
list part
select part # <- replace # with the partition you think is active
inactive
exit
exit

If you get the wrong partition # and inactive gives you an error, just select another partition using select part #. The only damage you can do with the inactive command is to run it on the partition the computer is really booting from, and the computer won't boot until you boot from a USB flash drive and mark that partition as active again.

Brink · Sep 25, 2019

Modernizing Windows Deployment with Windows 10 Subscription Activation

Back in June when we announced Windows AutoPilot, we also talked about another feature to automatically step up from Windows 10 Pro to Windows 10 Enterprise on Azure AD user logon, a key requirement to be able to use an off the shelf OEM device as soon as it comes out of the box, without reimaging.

So how exactly does this work? Many assume that this is done by Intune (or other MDM services) pushing down a policy to change the Windows 10 product key, either using a MAK key or a KMS key. And while that’s certainly possible to do, that approach is not ideal: MAK keys have limited activation counts, so you have to make sure you don’t run out of activations, and KMS requires periodic connectivity to the corporate network as well as on-premises infrastructure.

That’s where the new Windows 10 Subscription Activation feature comes in. By leveraging Azure Active Directory, you can eliminate product keys altogether. Instead, you can assign Windows 10 Enterprise E3 or E5 licenses directly to Azure AD users (just like you would with Office 365 or EMS) so that when a user logs onto a Windows 10 Pro device, it automatically steps up to Windows 10 Enterprise, making all the enterprise features instantly available. You can see the result of this step-up in the Settings app, where it shows you that the subscription is active:

The device will check with Azure Active Directory to ensure that the user still has a valid subscription license, so periodic internet access is required. If the license is removed or if the device is unable to check after a period of trying, it will step down to Windows 10 Pro automatically.

This also works for traditional Active Directory-joined devices too, as long as you have (Note that using the “Add work account” process to associate your Azure Active Directory account with a device is not supported, since these devices are assumed to be personal ones.)

If you have an active per-user Windows 10 Enterprise E3 or E5 or Windows VDA E3 or E5 subscription, there are some steps that need to be performed to make the license available in Azure Active Directory: a corresponding $0 Add-On license, which starts the process of adding the license to Azure AD, and then your designated volume licensing admin (online services contact) will receive and process some e-mailed instructions. For more information on that, see the Windows 10 Subscription Activation documentation. Once this is done, you can see the license in Azure Active Directory:

Note that this is not designed as a straight replacement for KMS or MAK activation. Windows 10 Subscription Activation requires that the original Windows 10 Pro OS is already activated (typically through OEM activation using the key embedded in the firmware of the device) – this enables automatic compliance for the underlying Pro edition licensing requirement to deploy Windows .

Windows 10 Subscription Activation is supported with Windows 10 Pro 1703 and later releases. Azure Active Directory is also needed, but any Azure AD edition will work. A per-user Windows 10 Enterprise E3 or E5 subscription through an Enterprise Agreement (EA) or Microsoft Products & Services Agreements (MPSA) is also needed. (For SMB customers, similar capabilities were announced last year as part of the Cloud Solution Provider [CSP] channel.)

To learn more about Windows 10 Subscription Activation, check out the Microsoft Ignite session that will be presented next week. (The recording of that session will be available soon after.)
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