While I was building a new server in which I was using storage pools I rebooted the system to check that the drives auto mounted, while doing this I found that I kept getting the shutdown event tracker when I logged in and it did not go away (this even occurred when using restart option)
I look online for other things and found that someone else had this issue for 2016 and 2019,
The solution
open registry
go to \HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Reliability
backup
.\DirtyShutdown
.\DirtyShutdownTime
Then delete those values...
wmic /namespace:\\root\CIMV2\TerminalServices PATH Win32_TSGeneralSetting Set SSLCertificateSHA1Hash="CertificateSHA1Hash"
You can get the Certificate SHA1 Hash by using openssl...
Within Azure I used the Azure Backup server I unregsitered the server I was using however backup items still displayed which prevent me removing the vault
solution was to go to manage > backup infrastructure
then under management servers click on Backup mananagement server and remove from there.
If it is a single server backup
under backup ingrastructure go to protected servers (azure backup agent)
select server and choose delete
Once removed you can then delete the recovery vault...
Run Powershell as admin
get-vm * | select Name,@{L="Disks";E={$_.harddrives.path}} | Export-Csv c:\temp\vmdisklocations.csv
Creates CSV which looks like the below
Name
Disks
WACLS1-VM
S:\VM\WACLS1-vm.vhdx H:\VMs HDD\WACLS1-VM\WACLS1-backupdisk.vhdx H:\VMs HDD\WACLS1-VM\WACLS!-VMM-Lib.vhdx
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Recently I have had a issue that a service was stuck on starting
Get the PID of the service
sc queryex servicename
Use the PID to kill the task
taskkill /f /pid [PID]
It will then say
SUCCESS: The process with PID XXXX has been terminated....
Not sure why this occurred however I was planning to add a new drive to a vm, however could not add the new drive.
Thinking back to an issue with a VM at work, on my VM exchange I tried to edit an existing drive on the VM and it mentions checkpoints exist.
In poweshell I did get-vmsnapshot Exchange it mentioned it was a recovery checkpoint
The command I used to remove it was get-vmsnapshot exchange | remove-vmsnapshot
Below is a screenshot of the CMD/Powershell window
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If you try to change the product key with a retail key it would give the prompt "This edition cannot be upgraded"
You can get the current version of the os by opening command prompt as admin and enter
DISM /online /Get-CurrentEdition
To get the list of editions it can be upgraded to
DISM /online /Get-TargetEditions
To upgrade Standard eval to Standard full use the generic product key within this command
dism /online /set-edition:ServerStandard /productkey:WC2BQ-8NRM3-FDDYY-2BFGV-KHKQY /accepteula
To upgrade Standard eval to Datacenter full or Datacenter eval to Datacenter full
DISM /online /Set-Edition:ServerDatacenter /ProductKey:CB7KF-BWN84-R7R2Y-793K2-8XDDG /AcceptEula
Once done restart your computer.(it can take a while to come back up as it will mention adding features
Once logged in run this command
winver.exe...