Error using latest windows 2019 and windows 2016 + sql ent/standard and packer

[derhally]

The following images seem to have an issue with packer when packer waits to create the windows user.

• sql-2019-enterprise-windows-2019-dc-v20250123
• sql-2019-standard-windows-2019-dc-v20250123
• sql-2017-standard-windows-2016-dc-v20250123
• sql-2016-enterprise-windows-2016-dc-v20250123

We adjusted the windows_password_timeout to 15 and still get errors like

Step #2: Build 'windows-server.googlecompute.sql-enterprise-2016-win-2016' errored after 15 minutes 39 seconds: Error creating windows password: time out while waiting for the password to be created

Step #2: Build 'windows-server.googlecompute.sql-standard-2017-win-2016' errored after 15 minutes 40 seconds: Error creating windows password: time out while waiting for the password to be created

These are the only images that encounter this error out of the 2 dozen windows images we build each month. Our packer templates are the same for the last 1+ years.

We use the same packer template for the 22 windows images.

We did not encounter issues with

• sql-2022-enterprise-windows-2022-dc-v20250123
• sql-2019-enterprise-windows-2022-dc-v20250123
• sql-2022-standard-windows-2025-dc-v20250123
• sql-2022-enterprise-windows-2025-dc-v20250123

We are using packer 1.12.0