{"id":847,"date":"2017-10-19T11:18:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T09:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/?p=847"},"modified":"2017-10-19T11:18:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T09:18:32","slug":"windows-server-2016-may-fail-to-boot-after-october-update-kb4041676","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/?p=847","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server 2016 may fail to boot after October update KB4041676"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my customers and friends had a problem: after installing KB4041676, VMs on Server 2016 didn\u2019t boot. The problem is in update &#8211; Microsoft releases the update with a mistake and correct this update immediately the same afternoon, but in some cases the old update remained in cache on devices or WSUS servers. To be sure, that you have the right update, check this link and retrieve the right delta update.<br \/>\nWhat if you are already there and your VM is not booting?<br \/>\nTo solve the issue, follow this steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Start the VM from the media (DVD, ISO\u2026)<\/li>\n<li>At the installation menu, select Repair computer and in Advanced options select Command prompt<\/li>\n<li>In command prompt, you have to execute this commands:\n<ul>\n<li><em><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">reg load hklm\\temp c:\\windows\\system32\\config\\software<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">reg delete \u201cHKLM\\temp\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Component Based Servicing\\SessionsPending\u201d \/v Exclusive<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">reg unload HKLM\\temp<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>After correcting the registry, we still need to remove the update with commands:\n<ul>\n<li>Use <span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"><em>dism \/image:c:\\ \/get-packages<\/em> <\/span>to list all installed packages to check if the package is really installed<\/li>\n<li>When you find the package, you can uninstall with command: <em><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">dism \/image:c:\\ \/remove-package \/packagename:packageidentity \/scratchdir:c:\\temp<\/span> <\/em>(package identity is an identity reported in output from previous command)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reboot the server<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hope it is helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my customers and friends had a problem: after installing KB4041676, VMs on Server 2016 didn\u2019t boot. The problem is in update &#8211; Microsoft releases the update with a mistake and correct this update immediately the same afternoon, but in some cases the old update remained in cache on devices or WSUS servers. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[39,40],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","category-windows-server","tag-windows","tag-windows-server"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/em-soft.si\/myblog\/elvis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}