Issue "Waiting for WinRM to become available" to create windows image using packer

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Hi,

We are facing “Waiting for WinRM to become available” error while creating a windows machine. telnet for port “5985” is working. And below is our packer script:

{
“builders”: [
{
“type”: “azure-arm”,

        "subscription_id": "{{user `subscription_id`}}",
        "client_id": "{{user `client_id`}}",
        "client_secret": "{{user `client_secret`}}",
        "tenant_id": "{{user `tenant_id`}}",

        "managed_image_resource_group_name": "myPackerGroup",
        "managed_image_name": "Windowsimage-{{timestamp}}",

        "os_type": "Windows",
        "image_publisher": "MicrosoftWindowsServer",
        "image_offer": "WindowsServer",
        "image_sku": "2016-Datacenter",

        "communicator": "winrm",
        "winrm_username": "packer",
        "winrm_use_ssl": false,
        "winrm_insecure": true,
        "winrm_timeout": "2m",

    "virtual_network_name": "myPackerGroup-vnet",
        "virtual_network_subnet_name": "default",
    "build_resource_group_name": "myPackerGroup",

        "azure_tags": {
	"XXXX": "yes",
            "dept": "XXXX",
            "task": "Image deployment"
        },

       
        "vm_size": "Standard_D2_v3"
    }
],
"provisioners": [{
"type": "powershell",
"inline": [
  "Add-WindowsFeature Web-Server",
  "& $env:SystemRoot\\System32\\Sysprep\\Sysprep.exe /oobe /generalize /quiet /quit",
  "while($true) { $imageState = Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Setup\\State | Select ImageState; if($imageState.ImageState -ne 'IMAGE_STATE_GENERALIZE_RESEAL_TO_OOBE') { Write-Output $imageState.ImageState; Start-Sleep -s 10  } else { break } }"
]

}]
}

Please suggest any solution ASAP.

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Hi purnimaY!

Could you add the output of packer? It is difficult to tell but often times, the packer user is the one to connect to the machine. With telnet, it will say that the port is open but not necessarily if a specific user with the correct password can reach it.

Let us if you figured it out, happy to help with some more debugging information!

Rosemary