Azure VM won't boot after sysprep; integration tools installed
- by Mark Williams
I have installed the Azure Integration Components and used sysprep on a Windows 2012 VM.
Now the machine won't start up. I uploaded the VHD to Azure - it failed there too.
When I start up the VM I get a PowerShell window that hangs out for a bit; eventually I get the following error, after which the machine restarts.
New-Object: The dependency service or group failed to start. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007042C)
At line1: char:1
New-Object -comobject WaAgent.WindowsSetupComponent | % {
$_.HandleSetupError() ...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+CategoryInfo : ResourceUnavailable (:) [New-Object], COMException
+FullyQualifiedErrorId: NoCOMClassIdentified,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewObjectCommand
I have tried renaming unattended.xml and turning on bootlogging. Neither of those yielded much help.
Is there a way I can disable the Azure components that run during OOBE? That seems to be the source of the problem. Mounting the VHD is easy.
0x8007042C looks like a firewall issue, based on my googling. Unfortunately I can't get the machine to boot so I can figure that issue out.
Also, I can't get around this problem by booting into safe mode.
Thanks for your help, guys.
