Good Morning
Ok, on the face of it this looks like a windows issue. I don't believe it is so bare with me!
I have a VSphere infrastructure of approx. 80 servers. 10x on 2012 R2, 50x on Windows Server 2019 and 20x on Server 2022.
Before anyone says it, I don't always in-place upgrade and would much rather rebuild a new server when it comes to upgrading, but sometimes that isn't possible. I in-place upgraded a few machines to server 2022 about 8 weeks ago, all succeeded.
I tried doing an in-place upgrade a few days ago and instantly I was hit with the "Setup Couldn't start properly. Please reboot your PC and try running windows 10 setup again".
I have done everything I can:
Disk Cleanup incl system files, All updates done, tried as local admin/domain admin, Disable/uninstall anti-virus, Disable startup files, dism restore health, sfc, Isolate server from network. Honestly, i've tried it all.
Then I thought i'd check a few other servers. Every single one of my servers gives me the same error. If I create a new server and domain join it, it works, but on all of my existing servers it doesn't, even if I mirror hardware settings from old servers, it still works on new ones.
I'm at a total loss. The fact all my servers are doing this to me tell me it might indicate something with Vmware rather than Windows.
Has anyone got any ideas at all???
