Configure Windows

TroubleShootingScript

stable 3.3.0-33

TroubleShootingScript toolset

  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).

  1. Temporarily Allow Script Execution

    Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Force

  2. Run TSS to Collect Windows Update Logs

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

  3. 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

.\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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