I hate major deaths in TV shows.
Sometimes when I hit rough patches in my life, I distract myself from my problems by watching TV shows.
Frequently, however what happens is that a major character or one of the major character characters is killed. Which only saddens me, whenever I try to distract myself.
Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, all have that aspect. Even shows like >!Young Sheldon!< which are supposed to be more lightweight, do as well.
Sometimes a character dies in a very sad way like >!Nicholas Brody!< in Homeland. >!A good buildup followed by an abrupt and unexpected death.!<
TV shows that do not have a major character death are usually quite stale themselves and have a low budget and are overall bad.
I get that it is important for the stakes to be high and for no one to be safe, just still hits hard when this happens.
I just want to watch a show where the stakes are high, but the protagonists win in the end, because this is something by that is not representative of real life rather than shows where half of them die by the end. I know that no one else wants that, still, I guess I wanted to write that here.
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Windows Server 2025 DCs: Defender not starting, PDQ Inventory scans hanging, Splashtop failing
**TL;DR**
On **Windows Server 2025 (24H2) Domain Controllers**, we hit a boot-time issue where:
* **Microsoft Defender Antivirus fails to initialize at startup**
* **Splashtop Remote Service fails to start**
* **PDQ Inventory scans hang indefinitely**
* Servers can boot into a state where **Defender is effectively disabled**
Disabling/removing **Splashtop** (per vendor guidance) and rebooting restored Defender and system stability.
**Symptoms**
* WinDefend service = Running, but:
* Get-MpComputerStatus initially showed AMEngineVersion = [0.0.0.0](http://0.0.0.0)
* Real-time protection unavailable
* Defender logs **Event ID 5017** at boot:
*“Group Policy hive was not ready when MDE AV service started”*
* SplashtopRemoteService fails with repeated **7000 / 7009**
* PDQ Inventory scans hang (only on affected servers)
No third-party AV. Same OS build, same CUs, same GPOs. One control server did **not** fail.
**Key finding**
Measured boot timing shows:
* Defender **5017** fires \~**29s after boot**
* Group Policy **8000** completes **30–80s later**
Defender is starting **before** computer policy hive is ready.
**Why Splashtop matters**
Every server with this issue had Splashtop in
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