AZURE VM “An authentication error has occurred. The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted.”

Azure  The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted. This gave me some grief about an authentication error has occurred — Azure –

An authentication error has occurred. The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted.The solution was simple once I had figured out the hoops

1.  In azure portal — Enable Admin Account
2. Reset Admin Password
   
3. Open Azure PowerShell — Find the actual name of the server  Or IP addressAzure Powershell
4. RDP To your azure server —-   yourserverNAME\YourAdminAccout
5. You  RDP via IP Address as well
   

   RDP AZURE

    

    

    

    

The last step might be needed to fix active directory – forcing the disjoin and rejoin into your windows active directory domain

Remove computer from non-existant domain after you have local admin access.

— RUN CMD as administrator

netdom remove computername /force