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SBS 2008 Black screen with scan after Windows Updates

The last two times I have applied windows updates to one of our SBS 2008 Standard servers, the machine reboots into a black screen with some sort of "scan" running with the following text (also see attached screenshot):

11669/16814 (\Registry\machine\Schema\wcm://Microsoft-windows-IE-Plugg...) where the 11669 is an incrementing number.  

Once it hits the final number, the machine finishes booting and gets to the Ctrl-Alt-Del screen.  The problem is, this "scan" takes almost 4-5 hours to complete.  Something has to be wrong here -- there's no way this is normal.

Any ideas what this "scan" is, and why it takes so long to complete after windows updates are applied?

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it looks like you have SFC running at every bootup...

when you get into windows issue this:
sfc /revert

here for more info:
http://forums.techguy.org/windows-xp/424097-sfc-boot.html
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It doesn't seem to do it after every boot though -- only after windows updates are applied.  Is this normal behavior?  Since it's in a default (out of box) state now, should RFC really be turned off\reverted?

hmm if only after windows updates, that tells me the server isn't rebooting properly... if the server thinks it shut down improperly, it'll run a few scans on the way back up.

are windows updates installing automatically and rebooting automatically?  that's a really bad idea.

next time you have the chance, install the updates manually, and tell it 'restart later'  then go restart the server the right way yourself
No - windows updates are downloading automatically and prompting for install so that we can do it during a set window.  We manually install them, then choose reboot later.  Then I reboot normally -- no errors regarding the updates, all were applied successfully.  Nothing obvious during the reboot either -- it just drops into that 'scan' screen and chews up 4-5 hours running it...
anything in the event logs about why it's happening?
nope,  nothing at all.  Just shows the patches applied successfully and waiting for a reboot.  Then the normal messages regarding the reboot.  Nothing showing the scan at all
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I have a SBS2008 server scanning the registry too... very slow... hope it boots as you mention above. I will wait for it to end not to break it... Anyone knows more about this?
I've seen Windows7 machines doing the same thing. I guess it is normal behavour after a one or other update.
I had the same issue, but was in a hurry, unfortunatly the server was hardbooted.
After reboot login in with the admin or domain admin login resulted in a blank black screen.
Login in with a RDP session using the console gave the same résult and unability to have a GUI

Solution:

Open the RDP client on Windows XP/Vista/7 then go to option then go to
Option/Programme --[ i may thin its differ on an english version maybe "application" ] --
then type
%SERVERNAME%\%SYSTEMROOT\$\Windows\SysWOW64\explorer.exe

then login in your RDP client then  breath back :)


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in english i think you mean:

open the remote desktop client, go to options, go to the 'programs' tab, put a checkmark by 'start the following program on connection' and give it:
%servername%\c$\windows\syswow64\explorer.exe

which would only work on a 64bit machine... so...  if 32bit maybe this:
c:\windows\system32\explorer.exe
Anyone knows anything about this - taking several hours to come up after an update.
It seems to me that it is not all updates that is causing this. It is a very long scan through registry and during that time there is no control of the server what so ever
I've had this exact same thing with a client's server after a rollup update. The server was scanning for 4 hours so I rang the SBS team at Microsoft. They assured me that this is normal behavior for some updates. I spose the answer is to reboot manually in the evenings?