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A system shutdown is in progress. (1115)

<p>Recently I had an issue with one of our remote physical machines that hang during the reboot phase&period; Once I have initiated a reboot of the machine through the RDP connection after the system update I could see that I wasn&&num;8217&semi;t able to connect to it even after 15 minutes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Once I have tried to restart the machine using <strong>CMD<&sol;strong> with <strong>shutdown -r -m -m<&sol;strong> command I got the following warning message&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>hostname&colon; A system shutdown is in progress&period; &lpar;1115&rpar;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-3930 size-full" title&equals;"A system shutdown is in progress&period; &lpar;1115&rpar;" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;wincert&period;net&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;10&sol;shutdown-in-progress&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"550" height&equals;"221" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>So&comma; in order to reboot a remote physical machine I had to download and use <strong>PSTools<&sol;strong> from <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;docs&period;microsoft&period;com&sol;en-us&sol;sysinternals&sol;downloads&sol;pstools" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">HERE<&sol;a> and kill the WinLogon process on the remote machine&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Once downloaded&comma; extract contents of the <strong>&period;ZIP<&sol;strong> file and run <strong>Command Prompt<&sol;strong> from the same location&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Type the following command&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>pskill &bsol;&bsol;hostname winlogon<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>where <strong>hostname<&sol;strong> is the name of the remote machine&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Once the process is killed the reboot process should continue and you&&num;8217&semi;ll be able to access the remote machine again&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-3931" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;wincert&period;net&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;10&sol;process-killed&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"518" height&equals;"191" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Comments are welcome&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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