Windows VMs won't start because the GuestAgent extension can't be found

Sergey Borovoy 501 Reputation points
2021-10-13T07:13:46.46+00:00

Hi, I have a bunch of Windows Server 2019 VMs and they were working fine just yesterday, but this morning none of them can be started. Provisioning state becomes "failed" and the error message is "No version found in the artifact repository that satisfies the requested version '' for VM extension with publisher 'Microsoft.WindowsAzure.GuestAgent' and type 'CRPProd'"

So I called a colleague who also has a bunch of similar Windows Server VMs in a different subscription (created independently, those are not copies of my VMs) and he has the same problem.

Looks like some kind of Azure outage, GuestAgent extension became inaccessible? On the other had, I'm worried about the fact that the requested version is shown as an empty string. If this is what my VM requests for some reason, no wonder it can't find it.

The region is Western Europe, in case it matters.

Tried googling the error message, nothing really useful.

I'll appreciate your help.

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  1. Luca Lionetti 2,966 Reputation points
    2021-10-13T07:39:40.223+00:00

    Same error, west Europe
    windows 2019

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  2. Allan Juncher Pedersen 16 Reputation points
    2021-10-13T07:41:27.427+00:00

    Exact same issue here - VM worked perfectly yesterday, but can't be started today

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  3. Michael Cronqvist 16 Reputation points
    2021-10-13T08:08:30.197+00:00

    Funny that Azure status site does not reflect this.

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  4. Marius Sandbu 56 Reputation points MVP
    2021-10-13T08:29:56.457+00:00

    It should also be noted that this outage also affects other services that are dependent on Compute Resources such as Azure Virtual Desktop, Azure Kubernetes Service (running Windows) as well.

    And yes this affects all Azure datacenters worldwide. Just have to wait until Microsoft fixes the artifact backend to point to the current version of the Azure VM Guest Agent which is running version 2.7.41491.1024

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  5. Vincenzo Sferruzza 41 Reputation points
    2021-10-13T10:29:01.907+00:00

    ... And the beautiful thing is that the VMs do not start but are allocated, so we must also pay them. So I advise everyone to stop VM interested.

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