Windows server 2012 stuck at 'Please Wait' screen

I did read through some of the post on a similar scenario with 2008 R2 or earlier versions stuck on "Please Wait" screen while logging in.
There were some suggestions about disabling NLA service or applying the hotfix- KB Article 983551. I'm not sure if this is applicable for Windows 2012 server.
These are virtual machines joined to the domain. After a reboot I'm able to login to the server.
I'm now starting to see this issue occuring on multiple servers on the domain. Can someone advice on this please?

Do you have all the latest patches applied to the system?
Is there any consistency in your environment as to which servers are exhibiting this behavior? For example, servers with a specific MB, BIOS level, firmware, etc.
All systems listed on www.windowsservercatalog.com?
Latest BIOS, Firmware, Drivers on all systems?
This is not typical. It is something in your environment, so you need to look for what is different about your environment.
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Well, "reality" and the "wants of a residential customer" are often mutually exclusive. You can "want" there to be a magical, miracle fix, but there simply is not. Your time is worth money, and the more days you sit around and wait for this problem to suddenly resolve itself, the less $ you make per hour.

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It happens a few times since last week.
When I started my laptop, it seems to stuck in "Please wait" screen before Windows 8 logon screen appears.
Any suggestion how to fix it?

If you are stuck in "Please Wait" screen, to resolve the issue follow below method
Boot the system into Safe Mode, to do so follow below steps:
1. While at the "Please Wait" screen, press ALT+CTRL+DEL
2. Click the power icon displayed at the bottom right
3. Hold down the SHIFT key and select Restart. This will take you to the Windows Startup Settings screen
4. Select Troubleshoot
5. Click Advanced options and choose Startup Settings
6. Click Restart
7. From the Startup Settings screen, select the number corresponding to Enable Safe Mode
8. Choose the user account that has administrative rights
If you are able to enter to safe mode, perform clean boot and check error still persists
http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/929135
And if you are not able to login to safe mode, perform "Repair system files using SFC scan."
This is a command-line tool that scans for corrupted files crucial to the system, and automatically initiates a repairing process.
1. Run this command using the steps mentioned below:
2. Reach Advanced options from the Windows Startup Settings described formerly
3. Choose Command Prompt
4. In the command prompt screen, type the following command: Sfc /scannow
5. Press Enter
6. Execute the on-screen instructions to complete the scan
Note: This method may require you to insert the Windows installation DVD to extract missing/damaged system files from the media

Windows 8.1 stuck on "please wait" after update

Hello. I recently got a new hp all in one 23-p010 about 2 weeks ago, and i have run into a problem. Last night i was getting ready for bed so i pressed update and shut down, and windows began to update and shut down like normal. The next morning, i turn it on it and i see the hp logo, then as its booting i see a blue sceen with the word "please wait". Now this has happened before but it leaves in seconds so i thought it was normal, however it has been hours and the screen has not disappeared. I cannot boot into my computer. I have tried shut downs but nothing. I really could use some help here. Thanks.

Hi,
Contact HP ASAP. If the refund/exchange window is open then take it back to th retailer.
You have a hardware problem.
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SCVMM service causeing Windows Server 2012 R2 to hang at "Please Wait"

I have a problem with the VMM service causing my server to no longer boot. I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 server running on Hyper-V that has only SCVMM installed on it, I was getting ready to install SCCM on it after I finished migrating the machines to
a new hard drive. After I moved the VM's all of them ran fine except the server with VMM on it, I spent plenty of time on Bing and Google trying to find out why my server was stuck at Please Wait and I found nothing, not one thing. I eventually disabled the
SCVMM services in msconfig from safe mode and now it boots fine.
It cant be because I moved it because I had a previous VM that was my WSUS, Essentials, RRAS, RDGW and one i installed VMM on it and rebooted the same happened.
This did not happed when I was setting this up at my other deployment for another company

I think have fixed it, I set it as disabled as I updated VMM to Update Rollout 1 and 2 and applying the changes described in the update description. Then once complete I set the service as Automatic (Delayed Start).
If anyone else has this issue pleases share your experiences here.
Now its has returned, not this sever only has VMM 2012 R2 (with all updates) and only that no other services

Windows 7 Professional Hangs at Please Wait

Hey, so I'm working on an HP Compaq 6000 Pro. The other week it stopped allowing logins. I can get into safe mode, but beyond that it's
hit and miss. I have gone over a few articles, and I've tried a few things with temporary results. When it first happened, I ran Start Up Repair and it proceeded to the login screen. The next day it stuck at Please Wait again, so I ran sfc.exe,
got no errors, and then did a clean boot. That time it allowed me to login twice I believe. The next day it hung at Please Wait again, so I disabled NLA, Windows Error Reporting, and Network List Services, and, again, it allowed me to login. It
stopped again the next day, and everything has been a hit and miss trial. Occasionally it will allow me to login, but not even close to consistently. I found multiple hotfixes, but everyone I try either says the update is not applicable, or it
will start to install, and then simply say the update was not installed. This machine is the only one experiencing the issue on the domain. In addition, I had
read a few times that a possible cause was WMI and one its repositories building up too much, or something along those lines. I just checked C:\Windows\System32\WBEM\Repository , which I read was the actual folder, and the size is only 20 Mb. I
believe this rules out another cause, and my only idea. The last thing I tried was disabling IPv6, which I heard could fix the issue, and got nothing. I
want to avoid just wiping and reloading Windows, since all of the user's data is on the local machine. Any advice?

Hi,
Please understand that there are lots of factors can lead to logon hang. To make the issue clear, please paste exact error messages from Event Viewer directly. Then I will look into it and try to find the culprit.
What information appears in event logs (Event Viewer)?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/What-information-appears-in-event-logs-Event-Viewer
Please use Windows Live SkyDrive (http://www.skydrive.live.com/) to upload the Error logs to a public folder and share the URLs with us.
Based on the current situation, I would also suggest you try the following:
1. Check for the updated drivers especially the network adapter drivers on your computer. if the drivers are not updated then, try updating the drivers.
2. Perform a system restore using the Windows installation disc.
Refer the link provided below to run the system restore using the system recovery options.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/What-are-the-system-recovery-options-in-Windows-7
In addition, when the issue occurs, you can press Ctrl+Shift+Esc combine key to launch Task Manager, on the Processes tab, find the process which is taking the most usage of the CPU.
Please also refer to the links below to check the issue:
Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 stops responding at the "Please wait" screen before you are requested to press Ctrl+ALT+DEL
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983551
Windows 7 stuck on "Please Wait.." screen (You can refer to gbps's reply.)
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-system/windows-7-stuck-on-please-wait-screen/927cac79-debc-43ec-9d36-9f5b0a19a1f9
Hope it helps.
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Can't connect Windows 8.1 Enperprise to Windows Server 2012 Essentials. Get a Digest Login page and then a Blank with HTTP 404 Error page. Need help!

Hi,
I have make a new and clean install of Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials on my office network server and then i made a new and clean install of Windows 8.1 Enterprise version on one of my office desktops.
After all VPN and Anywhere Access where setup on the server i when to a PC that is inside my office network and browse on Internet Explorer to the URL to connect this PC to the server and make it part of the domain.
But when i browse to the http://MYSERVERNAME/connect im not getting the Windows Server page with the option to download the windows connector. Instead i get a login pop-up saying "iexplore" and "digest". I try to create a user on the server
and use that user login details on this login box, but even then, the only thing i get is a blank page saying a HTTP Error 404.
So can someone please help me on this? Any advice on how to solve this problem in order to show the normal Windows Server connect page?
Thanks

Hi,
Based on your description, please refer to following operations and troubleshoot this issue. Then check if
can help us to narrow down the cause of this issue.
Please type
http://server-IP-address/connect in IE. Then check if encounter the same issue.
On the Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials, please open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager. Navigate to Sites, then right click Default Web Site and select
Edit Bindings… In Site Bindings, select Port 80 and click “Edit…” button. Would you please provide a screenshot of the Edit Site Binding (Port 80) that you can see?
Then please click
Connect which in the list of Default Web Site. In the mid panel, select
.NET Authorization Rules and double click it. Then please check if all users were allowed.
By the way, would you please provide a screenshot of the login page when you browser
http://servername/connect? It may help me to understand this issue clearly.
Meanwhile, please logon a problematic client computer and navigate to the path: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows
Server\Logs folder. Then check if there is Computerconnector log file. If there is, please check it if can find some clues. (Please note: the log file is a hidden file. Please open Control Panel, select Folder Options, select View tab and check Show hidden
files, folders and drives. Then you will be able to find the log file.)
If any update, please feel free to let me know.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
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I tried both "Windows Server 2012 Essentials" and "Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials". Here is the link to the page I downloaded the images:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-2012-essentials
The following are the respective links to the images I used which were provided by the above webpage:
http://care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/1/2/9/129AEC4F-1C6C-44B2-9B61-77935E8AB1F4/WindowsServer2012Essentials-English-Install.iso
http://care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/8/F/7/8F7024D2-AB2A-4BE2-8406-1E3AC49C5C1F/9600.16384.WINBLUE_RTM.130821-1623_X64FRE_SERVER_SOLUTION_EN-US-IRM_SSSO_X64FRE_EN-US_DV5.ISO
I tried burning these images to DVD and booting my Intel NUC with resulting disc. Setup goes fine but it asks me for a product key. I have not received any mail nor was there any pointers to a product key. This is why I tried both R1 and R2.
I found a similar post here regarding this issue (in fact I found a couple):
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/windowsserver/en-US/db7fd5b9-f58d-4456-86cf-816ec91ded14/windows-server-2012-trial-key-did-i-miss-it
But the answers were unsatisfactory, so please do not give me the same response.
Just in case the question/directive comes up, I redownloaded and re-burned the images using sector verification. There are no checksums posted on the site so who knows if something got broken while downloading it, but I find it extremely unlikely that
a few bad sector would cause the intaller to forget its evaluation key rather than borking the whole installer.
Further note that I tried "Windows Server 2012 R2" (standard / non-essentials) and that image correctly had the trial versions baked in. So, I would bet dollars to donuts the problem lies in the images not in a download / burn failure.
I want to use the new NUC as a central content/backup server for all the home computers which are unfortunately growing at bunny reproduction rates. Since Windows Home Server was discontinued, I was pointed to Server 2012 R2 as the alternative / upsell.
Let me know if this is the case or if a better-fit product exists.
Also, is the "Essentials" install a simply a licensing matter (e.g., 25 user cap) or is it more fundamentally crippled than the standard version? I am only a home enthusiast and so not really interested in using the product in a production environment.
I only want some ensurance that if I download "standard", I can put in an "essentials" key at the end of evaluation. If not, then please point me to a correct "Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials" trial image.
Thanks,
Ryan

Hi Ryan,
à
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-2012-essentials
We can find following description from this TechNet Evaluation Center website. Then please check if you can
find product key.
In addition, for Windows Server 2012 Essentials, please check if you can use
HHRHF-YMNJW-RPGCC-VV68W-BWMVY. For Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials, please check if you can use
R9N79-23MWD-MBP9B-KHF8Q-C36WX.
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Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu

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Hi, I still can't find documentation about the new domain and forest functional levels in WS 2012 R2.
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn268294.aspx
No word about it.
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771294.aspx
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For what's New in Active Directory in windows server 2012 R2,
Read the following Blog
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Dear Sir or Madam,
I have been experimenting with the evaluation version of WS2012e trying to get the installation and subsequent build into an optimal set up, and once I have everything I want it to do mapped out, I'll set it up with the full version with using the key that
I bought.
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to the internet when the server wasn't available, and was going to try to find that again to see if that helped.
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laptop will boot from cold in a few seconds into Windows 8.
Yours faithfully,
Avon
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Health Report extract.
Critical Errors in Event Logs in Last 24 Hours
DFSR
Event ID: 3221226674
The DFS Replication service failed to contact domain controller to access
configuration information. Replication is stopped. The service will try again
during the next configuration polling cycle, which will occur in 60 minutes.
This event can be caused by TCP/IP connectivity, firewall, Active Directory
Domain Services, or DNS issues.
Additional Information:
Error: 160 (One or more arguments are not correct.)
Last occurrence: 26 May 2014 18:51:28
Total occurrence(s): 2
DNS
Event ID: 2147487661
The DNS server is waiting for Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) to signal that the initial synchronization of the directory has been completed. The DNS server service cannot start until the initial synchronization is complete because critical DNS
data might not yet be replicated onto this domain controller. If events in the AD DS event log indicate that there is a problem with DNS name resolution, consider adding the IP address of another DNS server for this domain to the DNS server list in the Internet
Protocol properties of this computer. This event will be logged every two minutes until AD DS has signaled that the initial synchronization has successfully completed.
Last occurrence: 26 May 2014 18:51:15
Total occurrence(s): 2
ADWS
Event ID: 3221226674
This computer is now hosting the specified directory instance, but Active Directory Web Services could not service it. Active Directory Web Services will retry this operation periodically.
Last occurrence: 26 May 2014 18:51:08
Total occurrence(s): 2
NTDS General
Event ID: 2147486534
The security of this directory server can be significantly enhanced by configuring the server to reject SASL (Negotiate,
Kerberos, NTLM, or Digest) LDAP binds that do not request signing (integrity verification) and LDAP simple binds that
are performed on a cleartext (non-SSL/TLS-encrypted) connection. Even if no clients are using such binds,
configuring the server to reject them will improve the security of this server.
Some clients may currently be relying on unsigned SASL binds or LDAP simple binds over a non-SSL/TLS connection,
and will stop working if this configuration change is made. To assist in identifying these clients, if such binds occur this
directory server will log a summary event once every 24 hours indicating how many such binds
occurred. You are encouraged to configure those clients to not use such binds. Once no such events are observed
for an extended period, it is recommended that you configure the server to reject such binds.
For more details and information on how to make this configuration change to the server, please see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=87923.
You can enable additional logging to log an event each time a client makes such a bind, including
information on which client made the bind. To do so, please raise the setting for the "LDAP Interface Events" event logging category
to level 2 or higher.
Last occurrence: 26 May 2014 18:51:00
Total occurrence(s): 2
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Hi KerguelanAvon,
Based on your description, it seems to be hard to narrow down the cause of this issue. Please refer to following operations and monitor the result. It may help us to go further, and then solve this issue.
1. Please refer to the following article and troubleshoot slow boot.
New Slow Logon, Slow Boot Troubleshooting Content
2. On your server 2012 essentials, please start a BPA scan and fix all that it can find, then monitor the result.
Regarding to those critical Errors in Health Report, please perform
Dcdiag on the server. Meanwhile, please refer to the following article and troubleshoot network connectivity, firewall setting and AD DS issue.
DFSR Event 1202 (DFS Replication)
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu
Hi Justin,
I'm reading through the links you referred me to but it's taking a while. In the meantime I tried running BPA as you suggested. I'm sure when I ran it before, it didn't say much beyond 81 checks completed, and I couldn't find a way to get any
more detail.
Now it says
Problem:
The DNS client is not configured to point only to the internal IP address of the server.
Impact:
If the DNS client is not configured to point only to the internal IP address of the server, DNS name resolution can fail.
Resolution:
To resolve this problem:
1. From the client computer, open the Properties page for the network connection.
2. Make sure that DNS is configured to point only to the internal IP address of the server.
Except that it is.
Connection-specific DNS Suffix:
Description: Broadcom 802.11n Network Adapter
Physical Address: ‎00-1B-B1-28-AE-63
DHCP Enabled: Yes
IPv4 Address: 192.168.1.133
IPv4 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained: 03 June 2014 21:56:49
Lease Expires: 05 June 2014 20:24:20
IPv4 Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1
IPv4 DHCP Server: 192.168.1.1
IPv4 DNS Server: 192.168.1.49
IPv4 WINS Server:
NetBIOS over Tcpip Enabled: Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address: fe80::80ef:48d5:9fde:f10e%14
IPv6 Default Gateway:
IPv6 DNS Server:
I'll try rebooting from the current windows 7 build over to windows 8 on my dual boot laptop, to see if that makes any difference, since it is the only other client PC connected to the server at the moment.
Thanks, Avon.

VirtualDisk on Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Pool stuck in "Warning: In Service" state and all file transfers to and from is awfully slow

Greetings,
I'm having some trouble with my Windows Storage Pool and my VirtualDisk running on a Windows Server 2012 R2 installation. It consists of 8x Western Digital RE-4 2TB drives + 2x Western Digital Black Edition 2TB drives and have been configured in a single-disk
parity setup and the virtual disk is running fixed provisioning (max size) and is formatted with ReFS.
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This seem to have caused some awkward issues, I'm not quite sure of why as the virtualdisk is "fixed" so adding the SSD to the Storage Pool shouldn't really do anything, right? But after I did this my virtual disk have been stuck in "Warning:
In Service" and it seems to be stuck? It's been 4-5 days and it's still the same and the performance is currently horrible. Moving 40GB of data off the virtual disk took me about 20 hours or so. Launching files under 1mb of the virtual disk takes several
minutes etc.. It's pretty much useless.
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information either. I did try to do a repair through the Server Manager GUI but it goes to about 21% within 2-3 hours but drops back down to 10%. I have had the repair running for days but it wont go past 21% without dropping back down again.
Running repair through PowerShell yields the same results, but if I detach the virtual disk and then try to repair through PowerShell (the GUI wont let me do repair on detached virtual disks) it will just run for a split second and then close.
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due to me running fixed provisioning I had used all the space in the pool but the repair is still not able to go past 21%.
As am running "fixed provisioning" I guess adding a extra drive to the pool doesn't do much difference as it's not available for the virtual disk? So I went ahead and deleted 3 TB of data on the virtual disk so now I've got about 4 TB free space
on the virtual disk so there should be plenty of room for Windows Server 2012 R2 to re-build the parity or whatever it's trying to do but it's still the same, the repair wont move past 21% and the virtual disk is still stuck in "Warning: In Service"
mode and the performance keeps being horrible so taking a backup will take forever at these speeds...
Am I missing something here? All the drives in the pool is working fine. I have verified using various bootable tools so why is this happening and what can I do to get the virtual disk running at full state again? Why doesn't the GUI prompt you with any
kind of usable information?
Best regards, Thomas Andre

Hi,
Please run chkdsk /f /r command on the virtual disk to have a try. In the meantime, run the following commands in PowerShell to share the output.
get-virtualdisk -friendlyname <name> | get-physicaldisk | fl
get-virtualdisk -friendlyname <name> |fl
Best Regards,
Mandy
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Get server with Windows Server 2012 R2 or wait for Windows Server "10"?

We are looking to get a new server this year but with Windows 10 coming out shortly/this year, wouldnt it be better to wait until Windows Server "10" is released THEN get the server?
Thank you

Hi,
Windows 10 is the next version of the Windows client operating system. Until now, there is no official information of Windows Server operating system about the version next to Windows Server 2012 R2. You may pay attention to Microsoft official website for
the information about the newest product.
Windows Server：
http://technet.microsoft.com/library/bb625087.aspx
Here is the instruction about Windows 10 Technical Preview for Enterprise, just for your reference:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dn798751.aspx?ocid=wc-tn-answr
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Unable to Change Screen Resolution in Remote Session - Windows Server 2012 R2

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When users login to their RDP session and try to adjust their screen resolution this message is displayed in Control Panel:
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We don't want to use the "make text and other items larger or smaller" scaling feature, as this produces undesirable results with some of our applications. We also don't want to have to support multiple types of RDP clients or RDP shortcut
files.
We have looked at other posts but can't find an answer that applies to Windows Server 2012 R2. The closest thing we could find is KB2726399, but it only applies to Server 2008.
Does anybody have a solution for Server 2012?
Thanks

Hi,
Currently you cannot change the resolution from within the session. This is normal and expected behavior.
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-TP

Windows Server 2012 Used: Error Message from Windows 7 PC: Remote session was disconnected because there are no remote desktop license servers available to provide a license. Please contact the server administrator.

We are using Windows Server 2012 Standard installed in VMWare / Virtual machine and to access this we use vSphere client and Remote Desktop Connection / service was already enabled and was working fine with User PCs / laptops remote desktop into the server
2012, until it gave an error message of: Remote session was disconnected because there are no remote desktop license servers available to provide a license. Please contact the server administrator. whilst logging into the server.
We DON'T use Active Directory nor and we don't use domain and not looking to use it any-time soon.
I checked the RD Licensing Diagnoser and it says the grace period has expired and the licensing mode for the remote desktop session host server is not configured. I have checked the Remote Desktop Gateway has been stopped and I tried to start it and it
resumed to stop, here I assume its where the licensing part comes in to re-enabled this.
I have been trying to follow these articles online: http://ryanmangansitblog.com/2013/03/27/deploying-remote-desktop-gateway-rds-2012/ and http://www.concurrency.com/blog/rds8-add-a-licensing-server-2/#Install the overview part that I cannot get into,
because I think we have to be is AD DS for this which we don't. Is there a way around this for non domain / just standalone set-up? Is it a must / requirement we need to be in a domain in order for Remote Desktop Connection to work?
Also, we have a Windows Server 2012 RDS CALs - 10 (software and licence key), will the licence key work for the Windows 2012 Server Standard? We do not want to install the other Server mentioned which comes with CAL / licence key as its time consuming
to reinstall other programs. I have installed Server role service of Remote Desktop Licencing and automatically installed other associated services needed. in the RD Licencing Manager, the Server had a red cross and I "Activate Server"
where I followed: http://www.concurrency.com/blog/rds8-add-a-licensing-server-2/#Install in Install Licences section and I have used the licence key of CAL - 10 mentioned above; it stated I have successfully completed the install licences wizard and displayed:
10 Windows Server 2012 - RDS Per User CAL installed, and in the RD Licensing Manager the server turned into a green tick and added the licence.
I then tested the Remote desktop connection from my PC and the same error message was there and checked the RD Licensing Diagnoser and the same error messages was there. I haven't restart the services of Remote Gateway / the server itself; do I really
need to reboot server?
Any advice / guidance would be very much appreciated and this is a urgent matter.
Thank you for your time.

Hotfix Released here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2916846

Windows server 2012 stuck at 'Please Wait' screen

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