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WithinRafael
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Jun 11, 2024

WS2025 Preview (26100.1) fails to boot after joining WS2016 forest

I installed WS2025 Preview (Datacenter, 26100.1) in a virtual machine and after joining the domain, the box is rendered unbootable (boot loops). I can reinstall and do other tasks as a standalone server with no problem but joining the domain immediately bricks the VM, 100% of the time.

 

The forest is running at functional level WS2016. I disabled all GPs and verified with gpresult they are not applied.

 

Safe mode boots if you need me to poke around. Am working to get a kernel debugger attached.

 

No memory dump is generated and disabling reboot on errors yields nothing.

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