Verify active Pro subscription and Pro attachment

If you have just installed and configured UP4W and a verification step is failing, wait for a few seconds and try again. The process should not take longer than a minute.

Pro subscription

After installing UP4W on a Windows machine and entering your token you should see a confirmation that your Pro subscription is active:

Find and run Ubuntu Pro for WSL from the Windows start menu at any time and the app will confirm whether you are subscribed.

Pro-attachment

Note

To verify Pro-attachment WSL should be installed on the Windows machine along with an Ubuntu distro — Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will be used in this example.

To verify Pro-attachment a new Ubuntu instance needs to be created. Running the following command in PowerShell will create a new Ubuntu-24.04 instance and prompt you to create a username and password for the machine:

PS C:\Users\me\up4wInstall> ubuntu2404.exe

You will now be logged in to the new instance shell and can check that UP4W has Pro-attached this instance with:

u@mib:~$ pro status

The output will confirm the following:

• Services like ESM are enabled

• Account and subscription information for Ubuntu Pro

• Verification of Pro-attachment

SERVICE          ENTITLED  STATUS       DESCRIPTION
esm-apps         yes       enabled      Expanded Security Maintenance for Applications
esm-infra        yes       enabled      Expanded Security Maintenance for Infrastructure

NOTICES
Operation in progress: pro attach

For a list of all Ubuntu Pro services, run 'pro status --all'
Enable services with: pro enable <service>

     Account: [email protected]
Subscription: Ubuntu Pro - free personal subscription

Each new Ubuntu WSL instance that is created should automatically now be Pro-attached.

To find other useful Ubuntu pro commands run:

u@mib:~$ pro status

Landscape

For verification and troubleshooting of Landscape server and client configuration please refer to Landscape | View WSL host machines and child computers.