Autopilot Troubleshooting Tools during ESP

I love Autopilot and always use the enrollment status page (ESP), but sometimes I feel like I’m spending hours looking at the very limited updates and want to know what’s actually happening.

Whilst there is the excellent log collection tool from Microsoft, that’s a snapshot and not a live view.

With that in mind, I have created a script which can run during ESP and provide a GUI with access to a variety of tools:

NOTE: Whilst the script will be running and visible via Alt-Tab, you’ll still need to press Shift-F10 to bump out of the ESP screen and access it. If anyone has a way around this, please let me know!

Update 28/08/2022 – Version 1.1 now released with logic so it doesn’t trigger on current machines outside of OOBE

The buttons are fairly self-explanatory, the script launches Michael Niehaus’s excellent script (which you can read about here)

For the logs, they launch CMTrace (downloaded as part of the original script) directly to the log paths

To deploy the GUI, simply add this script to your PowerShell scripts section in Intune and deploy to Devices (64-bit context)

For those who are interested in how the script works, read on!

First we create a folder:

##Create a folder to store everything
$toolsfolder = "C:\ProgramData\ServiceUI"
If (Test-Path $toolsfolder) {
    Write-Output "$toolsfolder exists. Skipping."
}
Else {
    Write-Output "The folder '$toolsfolder' doesn't exist. This folder will be used for storing logs created after the script runs. Creating now."
    Start-Sleep 1
    New-Item -Path "$toolsfolder" -ItemType Directory
    Write-Output "The folder $toolsfolder was successfully created."
}

Set some paths to use later:

##Set download locations
$templateFilePath = "C:\ProgramData\ServiceUI\serviceui.exe"
$cmtraceoutput = "C:\ProgramData\ServiceUI\cmtrace.exe"
$scriptoutput = "C:\ProgramData\ServiceUI\tools.ps1"

Download Michael’s script (and NuGet to avoid prompts, remember this is still in the System context

##To install scripts
set-executionpolicy remotesigned -Force

##Force install NuGet (no popups)
install-packageprovider -Name NuGet -MinimumVersion 2.8.5.201 -Force

##Force install Autopilot Diagnostics (no popups)
Install-Script -Name Get-AutopilotDiagnostics -Force

Now we need to download CMTrace, ServiceUI (for user interaction) and the GUI script

##Download ServiceUI
Invoke-WebRequest `
-Uri "https://github.com/andrew-s-taylor/public/raw/main/Troubleshooting/ServiceUI.exe" `
-OutFile $templateFilePath `
-UseBasicParsing `
-Headers @{"Cache-Control"="no-cache"}

##Download CMTrace
Invoke-WebRequest `
-Uri "https://github.com/andrew-s-taylor/public/raw/main/Troubleshooting/CMTrace.exe" `
-OutFile $cmtraceoutput `
-UseBasicParsing `
-Headers @{"Cache-Control"="no-cache"}


##Download tools.ps1
Invoke-WebRequest `
-Uri "https://github.com/andrew-s-taylor/public/raw/main/Troubleshooting/tools.ps1" `
-OutFile $scriptoutput `
-UseBasicParsing `
-Headers @{"Cache-Control"="no-cache"}

ServiceUI needs a script to launch and I want to send another Shift-F10 at this point to get the powershell to popup nicely (even if we can’t interact)

##Create powershell script we are launching
$string = @"
[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('System.Windows.Forms')
[System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait("+{f10}") 
start-process powershell.exe -argument '-nologo -noprofile -noexit -executionpolicy bypass -command C:\ProgramData\ServiceUI\tools.ps1 ' -Wait
"@

$file2="C:\ProgramData\ServiceUI\shiftf10.ps1"
$string | out-file $file2

Then finally, launch the script:

##Launch script with UI interaction
start-process "C:\ProgramData\ServiceUI\serviceui.exe" -argumentlist ("-process:explorer.exe", 'c:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe -Executionpolicy bypass -file C:\ProgramData\ServiceUI\shiftf10.ps1 -windowstyle Hidden')

Hopefully this is useful, if nothing else, it’s nice to watch the logs and see what’s actually happening!