1. Visit Microsoft’s official TSS download page
2. DownloadTSS.zip and extract it to a folder (e.g.,C:\TSS)
3. Run PowerShell as Administrator

• Press Win + X → SelectWindows PowerShell (Admin) .
• Avoid PowerShell ISE (not supported by TSS).

4. Temporarily Allow Script Execution

   > Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Force
   

5. Run TSS to Collect Windows Update Logs

   > .\TSS.ps1 -Collectlog DND_SetupReport -AcceptEULA
   > .\TSS.ps1 -Collectlog Update -AcceptEULA
   

6. Find the Collected Logs

   Once complete, logs are saved in: C:\MS_DATA\TSS__.zip

Active Directory

> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario ADS_AuthEx   # Client
> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario ADS_Auth     # Server
> .\TSS.ps1 -Start -ADS_ADCS       # Server

Application management

> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario PRF_UWP
> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario PRF_Store
> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario PRF_WinGet
> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario PRF_Photo
> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario PRF_Clipboard
> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario PRF_MediaCamera

Clustering and high availability

> .\TSS.ps1 -SDP Cluster

Group Policy

> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario ADS_AuthEx   # Client
> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario ADS_Auth     # Server

Hyper-V

> .\TSS.ps1 -SDP HyperV
> .\TSS.ps1 -SDP HyperV -SkipSDPList skipBPA
> .\TSS.ps1 -SDP HyperV -SkipSDPList skipHang
> .\TSS.ps1 -SDP HyperV -SkipSDPList skipTS
> .\TSS.ps1 -SDP HyperV -SkipSDPList skipCsvSMB
> .\TSS.ps1 -SDP HyperV -SkipSDPList skipHVreplica

Licensing and activation

> .\TSS.ps1 -CollectLog DND_SETUPReport

Windows networking

Domain Name System (DNS)

> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario NET_DNSCli
> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario NET_DNSSrv

TCP/IP connectivity

> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario NET_WinSock

Access to file shares

> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario NET_SMBCli
> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario NET_SMBSrv

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario NET_DHCPCli
> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario NET_DHCPSrv

Wired/wireless (802.1x, Bluetooth, Miracast, and mobile broadband)

> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario NET_802Dot1x
> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario NET_WLAN

Performance

System reliability (crashes, errors, bug checks, or blue screens, and unexpected restarts)

> .\TSS.ps1 -SDP Perf

System performance (slow, unresponsive, high CPU, and resource leak)

> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario PRF_General

Black screen after logon

> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario PRF_UWP
> .\TSS.ps1 -set crashmode
> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario PRF_UWP -crash
> .\TSS.ps1 -StartAutoLogger -Scenario PRF_UWP -crash

App, process, and service reliability (crashes and errors)

> .\TSS.ps1 -set wer
> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario PRF_General

App, process, and service performance (slow and unresponsive)

> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario PRF_General

Boot problems

> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario PRF_Boot
> .\TSS.ps1 -StartAutoLogger -Scenario PRF_Boot

Performance library (Perflib) counters

> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario PRF_Perflib

Remote Desktop Services (RDS)

> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario UEX_RDScli
> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario UEX_RDSsrv
> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario UEX_RDSsrv -UEX_ServerManager -UEX_WMI -UEX_WinRM

Windows servicing, Updates, and Features on Demand

> .\TSS.ps1 -CollectLog DND_SETUPReport

Shell experience

Desktop (Shell, Explorer.exe initialization, themes, colors, icons, and Recycle Bin)

> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario PRF_UWP
> .\TSS.ps1 -StartAutoLogger -Scenario PRF_UWP

Start menu

> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario PRF_StartMenu
> .\TSS.ps1 -StartAutoLogger -Scenario PRF_StartMenu

Search

> .\TSS.ps1 -Scenario PRF_Search
> .\TSS.ps1 -StartAutoLogger -Scenario PRF_Search

SQL cluster (AG/FCI)

Virtualization and Hyper-V

> .\TSS.ps1 -SDP SQLbase

Optional parameters

> .\TSS.ps1 -SDP SQLbase -SkipSDPList skipBPA
> .\TSS.ps1 -SDP SQLbase -SkipSDPList skipHang
> .\TSS.ps1 -SDP SQLbase -SkipSDPList skipTS
> .\TSS.ps1 -SDP SQLbase -SkipSDPList skipCsvSMB

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