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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 ser...
same issue here, I've actually built a new 2025 EC2 instance, created a new forest (with domain and forest functional level in 2016), rebooted a couple of times and is working, i've created another EC2 instance with 2025, joined to the built-from-scratch AD domain, rebooted twice and it get's stuck in the AWS logo.
Not sure what is the component failing here.