ESXi 5.5 - Server 2012 R2 - Unable to shutdown after adding to domain

[dkmalleus]

Hi All,

I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual machine on ESXi 5.5. When I add it to the domain and it asks for a reboot, I the click reboot and it sticks at 'Notifying services that Windows is shutting down' (jpeg attached). I have many Server 2012 vms on the domain that work well.

I have forcefully shutdown, the event viewer after the event doesn't show any issues. Subsequent shut downs stop at the same message. i even left it to run over a whole weekend and it didn't move past this message.

Does anyone know any reasoning for this.

Regards

David

[rcporto]

Take a look at comments in this blog post: http://mikefrobbins.com/2010/11/04/please-wait-for-the-system-event-notification-service/

[dkmalleus]

Hi Thanks for this, None of their suggestions work though i'm afraid. The server shuts down fine when its in a workgroup but as soon as I put it on the domain it sticks at this message.

[OdedShahaf]

Had the same problem with both 2008R2 and 2012R2,

until i disabled the "Clear virtual memory pagefile" setting in GPO.