Tag: reset

Oct252022October 25, 2022October 25, 20220Commentby Thomas Maurer
Reinstall Windows 11 from the cloud

Reset and Reinstall Windows 11 from the Cloud

Posted in Microsoft, Windows

In Windows 11 you have a new feature called Windows 11 Cloud Reset. This new feature helps you to reset and reinstall your Windows 11 machine from the cloud. If you wanted to reset or reinstall your Windows 11 machine, you already had the option of doing that from your local installed copy of Windows 11 and reusing existing Windows files to construct a fresh copy. Or if you wanted a completely fresh installation of your Windows machine, you needed to download Windows and create a USB stick to boot from. The new Cloud download option in the Windows 11 recovery settings allows you to get the best of both worlds.

Reset and reinstall Windows 11 using the cloud download feature ☁

The new Windows cloud download feature allows you to reinstall Windows 11 using fresh Windows installation files from the cloud. There is no need for a recovery partition or create a USB drive.

Brandon LeBlanc from the Windows team wrote about the benefits of using cloud download for the reset or fresh installation:

  • A more reliable way to reinstall Windows ✅
  • Depending on your internet speed it can be faster ✅
  • No need for a USB stick or DVD ✅

There are two options to reset from the cloud. First, if you have a running copy of Windows 10 and you want to do a fresh installation, you can use recovery.

How to reset your Windows 11 PC from the cloud in the recovery settings 💻

Reset and Reinstall Windows 11 using Cloud download
Reset and Reinstall Windows 11 using Cloud download

If you currently have a running Windows 11 machine and you want to initiate a reset or reinstallation from with the cloud download option, you can do this through the Windows settings.

  • Open Settings
  • Go to System
  • Click on Recovery
  • On the recovery screen, select Reset PC
  • Choose between Keep my files or Remove everything
  • Now you can select Cloud download or Local reinstallation
  • If you select Cloud download, this will use Windows Update to download the fresh Windows files

How to reinstall Windows 11 from the cloud if you can’t boot 💻

Windows RE recovery cloud download
Windows RE recovery cloud download

In the case that you are not able to boot your Windows 11 machine anymore, you can start your reinstallation using cloud download from Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE).

  • Click on Troubleshoot
  • Click on Reset this PC
  • Choose between Keep my files or Remove everything
  • Now you can select Cloud download or Local reinstallation
  • This will need drivers for the network adapter in the Windows RE image. Most of the time you have drivers for the wired connection. It might also work with wireless network connection depending on the drivers loaded by the PC vendor in the Windows RE image.

Conclusion

Cloud download is a great new option to reset and reinstall your Windows 11 computer and get it back to a healthy and fresh installation. This is just another great new feature in Windows like other improvements we have seen over the last couple of years.

If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment and use the Feedback Hub.


Dec052019December 5, 2019December 5, 20195Commentsby Thomas Maurer
Reset RDP and Admin Password Azure VM

How to Reset RDP and Admin Password of an Azure VM

Posted in Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Virtualization, Windows, Windows Server

I think we all had that experience where we suddenly couldn’t use Remote Desktop Services (RDP) to access our Windows Server anymore. Luckily, if this happens to an Azure virtual machine (VM), we can use the VMAccess extension to reset the RDP configuration as well as the password of the Azure VM. You can reset the RDP configuration or the Azure virtual machine password using the Azure portal or Azure PowerShell.

Reset the administrator password of an Azure VM 🔓

To reset the password of an Azure VM, you can use the Azure portal or Azure PowerShell. If you take the portal path, log in to the Azure portal, go to the Azure VM, you want to reset the password. Under Support + Troubleshooting, click on Reset Password, and follow to the Reset Password wizard to update the credentials. Note that this is not supported for Active Directory Domain Controllers.

Reset Administrator Password of an Azure VM

Reset Administrator Password of an Azure VM

If you want to use Azure PowerShell, you can run the following commands:

$SubID = "SUBID" 
$RgName = "RESOURCE GROUP NAME" 
$VmName = "VM NAME" 
$Location = "LOCATION"
 
Connect-AzAccount 
Select-AzSubscription -SubscriptionId $SubID 
Set-AzVMAccessExtension -ResourceGroupName $RgName -Location $Location -VMName $VmName -Credential (get-credential) -typeHandlerVersion "2.0" -Name VMAccessAgent

This should help you to reset the password of an Azure Virtual Machine (VM) if you lost access to it. If you want to know more, read the following troubleshooting article on Microsoft Docs.

Reset RDP configuration 👩‍💻

If you can access your Azure Virtual Machine using RDP, you can reset the configuration, and this will enable Remote Desktop service in the VM and create a firewall rule for the default RDP port 3389. To reset the Remote Desktop Service (RDP) configuration, you again login to the Azure portal, select the virtual machine you want to reset the RDP configuration. Under Support + Troubleshooting, click on Reset Password, on the new blade select Reset configuration only, and click on update.

Reset Remote Desktop Services RDP of an Azure VM

Reset Remote Desktop Services RDP of an Azure VM

There is also an Azure PowerShell command available to do this:

$SubID = "SUBSCRIPTION ID" 
$RgName = "RESOURCE GROUP NAME" 
$VmName = "VM NAME" 
$Location = "LOCATION"
 
Connect-AzAccount 
Select-AzSubscription -SubscriptionId $SubID 
Set-AzVMAccessExtension -ResourceGroupName $RgName" -VMName $VmName" -Name "myVMAccess" -Location $Location -typeHandlerVersion "2.0" -ForceRerun

I hope this gives you an overview of how you can Reset your Remote Desktop Service of an Azure Virtual Machine (VM) if you lost access to it. If you want to know more, read the following troubleshooting article on Microsoft Docs. You can also use Azure PowerShell in Cloud Shell.

If you want to know more about how you migrate your virtual machines to Azure, check out my blog post about Azure Migrate.

 


Oct012019October 1, 2019September 30, 20193Commentsby Thomas Maurer
Reset and Reinstall Windows 10 using Cloud download

Reset and Reinstall Windows 10 from the Cloud

Posted in Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft MVP, Windows

In the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview build you have a new feature called Windows 10 Cloud Reset. This new feature helps you to reset and reinstall your Windows 10 machine from the cloud. The feature first showed up in Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18970 which are preview releases of Windows 10 20H1. If you wanted to reset or reinstall your Windows 10 machine, you already had the option doing that from your local installed copy of Windows 10 and reusing existing Windows files to construct a fresh copy. Or if you wanted a completely fresh install of your Windows 10 machine, you needed to download Windows and create a USB stick to boot from. The new Cloud download option in the Windows 10 recovery settings, allows you to get the best of both worlds.

Reset and reinstall Windows 10 using the cloud download feature ☁

The new Windows cloud download feature allows you to reinstall Windows 10 using fresh Windows installation files from the cloud. There is no need for a recovery partition or create a USB drive.

Brandon LeBlanc from the Windows team wrote about the benefits of using cloud download for the reset or fresh installation:

  • A more reliable way to reinstall Windows ✅
  • Depending on your internet speed it can be faster ✅
  • No need for a USB stick or DVD ✅

There are two options to reset from the cloud. First, if you have a running copy of Windows 10 and you want to do a fresh installation, you can use the recovery.

How to reset your Windows 10 PC from the cloud in the recovery settings 💻

Reset and Reinstall Windows 10 using Cloud download

Reset and Reinstall Windows 10 using Cloud download

If you have currently a running Windows 10 machine and you want to initiate a reset or reinstallation from with the cloud download option, you can do this through the Windows settings.

  • Open Settings
  • Go to Update & Security
  • Click on Recovery
  • On the recovery screen, select Get started
  • Choose between Keep my files or Remove everything
  • Now you can select Cloud download or Local reinstallation
  • If you select Cloud download, this will use Windows Update to download the fresh Windows files

How to reinstall Windows 10 from the cloud if you can’t boot

Windows RE recovery cloud download

Windows RE recovery cloud download

In the case that you are not able to boot your Windows 10 machine anymore, you can start your reinstallation using cloud download from Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE).

  • Click on Troubleshoot
  • Click on Reset this PC
  • Choose between Keep my files or Remove everything
  • Now you can select Cloud download or Local reinstallation
  • This will need drivers for the network adapter in the Windows RE image. Most of the time you have drivers for the wired connection. It might also work with wireless network connection depending on the drivers loaded by the PC vendor in the Windows RE image.

Conclusion

Cloud download is a great new option to reset and reinstall your Windows 10 machine, and getting it back to a healthy and fresh installation. This is just another great new feature in Windows 10 like other improvements we have seen over the last couple of years.

If you have any questions feel free to leave a comment and use the Feedback Hub.

Check out other Windows 10 improvements like:


Oct012010October 1, 2010January 7, 20190Commentby Thomas Maurer

Install and configure IPv6 on Windows Server 2003

Posted in Microsoft, Windows, Windows Server

On Microsoft Windows Server 2003 there is no GUI to configure IPv6. So this article should show you how to configure IPv6 on a Windows Server 2003.

  1. Install the IPv6 Protocol in the Network Adapter Properties or Control Panel
  2. Open the console
  3. Type “netsh” this is a command line program to configure network adapters
  4. Here are some demo configurations

int ipv6
reset
add dns interface=”<Interface Name>” address=<IPv6 primary DNS IP Address>
add dns interface=”<Interface Name>” address=<IPv6 secondary DNS IP Address>
add route prefix=::/0 interface=”<Interface Name>” metric=0 nexthop=<IPv6 Gateway IP Address>
add address interface=”<Interface Name>” address=<IPv6 IP Address>

int ipv6
reset
add dns interface=”Local Area Connection” address=fec0:0:0:0:ffff::1
add dns interface=”Local Area Connection” address=fec0:0:0:0:ffff::2
add route prefix=::/0 interface=”Local Area Connection”metric=0 nexthop=fe80::1
add address interface=”Local Area Connection” address=fe80::2

int ipv6
reset
add dns “Local Area Connection” fec0:0:0:0:ffff::1
add dns “Local Area Connection” fec0:0:0:0:ffff::2
add route ::/0 “Local Area Connection” fe80::1
add address”Local Area Connection” fe80::2


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    My name is Thomas Maurer. I am a Senior Program Manager & Chief Evangelist for Azure Hybrid at Microsoft. I am part of the Azure engineering team (Cloud + AI) and engage with the community and customers around the world. Opinions are my own.

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