system just hangs at "please wait for the terminal services configuration" on a blue screennot running terminal services on the server as anything other than being able to remote desktop in,ie:not publishing a terminal serverjust ias, iis, nps wsus ona vanilla 2008 enterprisevery annoying and potentially dangerous as have to physically cut power which causes potential file issues on rebootany ideas please

HiSometimes Windows gets itself in a huff and won't shut down properly for some reason. You try to shutdown your system and nothing happens for a while, and then a dialog appears telling you that a task won't shut down and you can press End Now if you want to end it now, or you can wait for Windows to try and end it itself. Well you can avoid that hassle by making a simple registry tweak (but remember to backup your registry before editing it!). Here's how: 1. Open Regedit and navigate to HKU\.Default\Control Panel\Desktop 2. Double-click on AutoEndTasks 3. Change the value from 0 to 1 4. Reboot your machine Now hung processes will end automatically when you try to shutdown or reboot your machine. One caveat: a hung process means something is wrong, and anytime you kill a hung process (whether manually or automatically) you risk possible data loss. Deva

Have you enabled ASR feature in the server 2008.under system properties check for the automatic restart is enabled or not.Configure DUMP as follows: How to select memory dump file options Three types of memory dump files can be generated. Select one before you manually trigger the dump file. To do this, follow these steps: Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties. Click the Advanced tab, and then click the Startup and Recovery button. Click Write Debugging Information, and then click to select either Complete Memory Dump, Kernel Memory Dump, or Small Memory Dump. Refer below linkhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/244139http://support.microsoft.com/kb/254649 Steps to clean boot: 1. Click Start->Run...-> type msconfig and press Enter 2. Click Services tab and select Hide All Microsoft Services and Disable All third party Services. 3. Click Startup tab and Disable All startup items 4. Click OK and choose Restart 5. After reboot, check whether the problem still occurs

Try unistall terminal services from teh server.

yes ASR is on but this appears as system is closing so not sure why that applies,Terminal services role is not installed,will have to try the dump file

Hi, Please understand that to troubleshoot this issue, we may need to perform debugging. However, in this forum, we do not provide debugging support. If you would like to perform debugging, please contact Microsoft Customer Support Service (CSS). To obtain the phone numbers for specific technology request, please refer to the website listed below: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;PHONENUMBERS If you are outside the US, please refer to http://support.microsoft.com for regional support phone numbers. Tim Quan - MSFT

Hi. Any news in this case?I have also now a 2008 server with the same issue.It's a VMWare ESX guest running DHCP, DNS, AD and WDS/MDT.It started doing this after a hotfix or a powerloss. Not sure what came first.

I am receiving the same error on a MS Virtual on a host Running 2008 Hyper-V. When user is RDPed into the server and they go to restart it the screen will show "Please wait for the terminal services configuration"... and the boot him out. When I go to the console it is stuck on that screen and it has neither logged his session out or rebooted. Any help is appeaciated.

FWIW, this just happened to one of my clients on a 2008 SBS server during this week's patch Tuesday updates. The power button was the only way to shut it down.

Hi, Please understand that to troubleshoot this issue, we may need to perform debugging. However, in this forum, we do not provide debugging support. If you would like to perform debugging, please contact Microsoft Customer Support Service (CSS). To obtain the phone numbers for specific technology request, please refer to the website listed below: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;PHONENUMBERS If you are outside the US, please refer to http://support.microsoft.com for regional support phone numbers. Tim Quan - MSFT What a completely useless solution.rob