cannot establish remote desktop to virtual win10 azure client due to "welcome screen"

[Francisco Llorens]

Hi,

after an automatic update of my virtual win10 client running on azure I can not establish a RDP connection. If I check the azure "diagnosis and problem solving" dialog of this machine I see that the machine hangs in the "welcome" screen.

Any idea how I can connect to this machine again?

regards,

Francisco

[#2]

You have a few options, you can create a recovery VM and mount the OS disk from the problematic machine and run different repair tools against it. There is a tool that can automate the recovery steps, but it does not appear to be publicly available anymore, i know that it is the first step provided by the support staff.

But try to delete and recreate the VM, if that fails have a look here https://blog.kloud.com.au/2016/06/09/azure-vm-troubleshooting-part-1/

Another option is to download the vhd to you machine and use Hyper-V to troubleshoot, once you repair the VM re-upload

[#3]

Dear Kent,

thank you for your help. I tried to download the VHD, but without success.

I tried the powershell Save-AzureVHD commando, but this always wants me to set the default description. I try to do this with Select-AzureSubscription <mySubscription> but every <mySubscription> I try is not working - subscription not found. I tried subscription guid, name of the storage accounts, VM name, ...

Is there another way to download the VHD?

Regards,

Francisco

[#4]

Dear Kent,

I managed to download the VHD using the \storage accounts\myMachineNamedisks123-Container\vhds\blob properties\... So waiting for 250GB download now ;)

There is also an upload button in this view - I'm curious if I can overwrite the existing files.

Best regards,

Francisco

[#5]

So i feel horrible forgetting to mention this, but Azure now support Nested VM's, meaning you can enable hyper-v on a 2016 VM, and the data doesnt have to leave the datacenter.

[#6]

OK, that means I need a 2016 Windows Server with hyper-v and then I can "add" the virtual azure client as nested VM into 2016 windows server? Is this something I can do in azure - so let's setup an 2016 windows server in azure and there add the not-working vm? so I can remote login to the server and from the server I can start the nested vm and get through the welcom screen?

[#7]

you still need to expose the vhd to the 2016 by upload or mapping the url, i would suggest uploading it to the recovery vm to insure perfomance. but yes that should be possible.