{"id":1438,"date":"2017-05-20T11:19:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T11:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-no.104.210.61.21.xip.io\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2017-05-20T11:19:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T11:19:06","slug":"windows-2008-r2-no-logon-dialog-after-ctrl-alt-delete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/?p=1438","title":{"rendered":"Windows 2008 R2 &#8211; No logon dialog after CTRL-ALT-DELETE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had this issue tonight where a Windows 2008 R2 server could not logon after being removed from the domain. Not sure if this was due to a recent update as we have had lots of issues with that in the last week. I thought it would be good to share the fix I found to help others.<\/p>\n<p>relevant info:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Booting into safe mode would not let you logon, the only option that worked was safe mode with command prompt.<\/li>\n<li>I had tried running SFC \/scannow and it didn&#8217;t not find anything to fix.<\/li>\n<li>Tried forcing classic mode logon by enabling that in local security policy (found that fix on Citrix forums) but it has a dependancy on the Desktop experience role\/feature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fix:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Boot the server into safe mode with command prompt<\/li>\n<li>Open group policy editor (run gpedit.msc)double click under &#8220;Computer Configuration&#8221;\/&#8221;Windows Settings&#8221;\/&#8221;Security Settings&#8221;\/&#8221;Local Policies&#8221;\/&#8221;Security Options&#8221; the Policy &#8220;Interactive Logon: Do not Display last user Name&#8221;\n<p>select the Option &#8220;Enabled&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Start &#8211; Run &#8211; gpupdate<\/li>\n<li>Reboot the server<\/li>\n<li>you should now be able to logon.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And a big thank you to Enrique Soto as he was there for moral support and keeping me awake!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had this issue tonight where a Windows 2008 R2 server could not logon after being removed from the domain. Not sure if this was due to a recent update as we have had lots of issues with that in the last week. I thought it would be good to share the fix I found to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}