Once again I appreciate your help @Andrew.
Since I'm running profiles/roles I did you what recommended and I also 
added service { 'puppet'  : ensure =>  'running', enable => true, }
 to my role in addition to my profile ...which seemed to really work and 
makes me think the profile code wasn't working.
-peter

On Monday, May 23, 2022 at 5:44:16 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote:

> I'd be tempted to put a 
> https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/5.5/types/notify.html into your code 
> temporarily to ensure that it's being enforced.
> Try running `puppet resource service puppet ensure=running` in powershell 
> and see if you can switch it on manually from there.
> Could there be some other agent or group policy that is shutting the 
> puppet service down?
>
>
> On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 10:02 PM [email protected] <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> And instead I see:
>> C:\Windows\system32>puppet resource service puppet
>> service { 'puppet':
>>   ensure       => 'stopped',
>>   enable       => 'true',
>>   logonaccount => 'LocalSystem',
>>   provider     => 'windows',
>> }
>>
>> so....my currrent code already has this:
>> 'windows': {
>>   service { 'puppet'  : ensure =>  'running', enable => true, }
>> }
>> I'll run puppet with debug and see what's happening...but basically, it 
>> doesn't seem like its saving the state.
>>
>> On Monday, May 23, 2022 at 3:17:03 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>> Open a power shell window and run `puppet resource service puppet` you 
>>> should see something like this;
>>> PS C:\Users\Administrator> puppet resource service puppet
>>> service { 'puppet':
>>>   ensure       => 'running',
>>>   enable       => 'true',
>>>   logonaccount => 'LocalSystem',
>>>   provider     => 'windows',
>>> }
>>> This will tell you if the service is running. 
>>>
>>> On Monday, May 23, 2022 at 6:32:29 PM UTC+1 [email protected] 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> My current puppet.conf:
>>>>
>>>> [main]
>>>> certname=windowscw.example.com
>>>> server=puppet
>>>> autoflush=true
>>>> manage_internal_file_permissions=false
>>>> environment=development
>>>> runinterval=1800
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, May 23, 2022 at 1:17:57 PM UTC-4 [email protected] 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've been struggling to get puppet agent 7.12 to run by itself on 
>>>>> windows 10. I'm watching for runs on the event viewer in Custom Views > 
>>>>> Administrative Events.
>>>>> It seems that it will run dependably/independently if I 
>>>>> 1) change the puppet.conf "runinterval=30m" to "runinterval=1800" AND 
>>>>> 2) change Puppet Agent service to automatic AND 
>>>>> 3) after I run it manually at least once. 
>>>>>
>>>>> The problem is that I need it to run withOUT being run manually.
>>>>> Suggestions?
>>>>>
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