5Sep/093
Windows Small Business Server 2008 (SBS 2008) hangs on “Applying Computer Settings…”
I have a fresh installed Windows Small Business Server 2008 Premium Edition on a VMWare ESX 4i Host. I installed VMWare Tools and disabled IPV6 in the Network Settings. After that, i restarted the machine, bad idea!
The Systems hangs over 30 Minutes on "Applying Computer Settings...". Several resets didn't help. After i started the machine in "recovery mode" and disabled IPV6 trough a registry key, the machine is booting as it should.
here is the required registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters\
Add a new DWord (32bit):
DisabledComponents with the value "ffffffff" (eight f )
Restart the Server and everything will be fine...
September 5th, 2009
Don’t understand this really:
You disabled IPV6, and booting the system then wasn’t possible until you disabled IPV6 in recovery mode once again??
btw: i disable ipv6 on my windows 2008 machines by default and never had a similar problem. i think the vmware-driver for the nic could be the reason for this behaviour.
Gruß von
Stefan
September 6th, 2009
unchecking the ipv6 flag in the network properties will not completely disable ipv6 on the system.
after a reboot, the system will hang or take a long time until the logon script appears.
ipv6 is only completely disabled, if you do it with the registry entry written in this post.
Dezember 16th, 2009
Thank you very much, helped me solve my issue