Windows server 2016 Activation stuck at 10% for over 12 hours

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Spyder2000

Dism /online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /AcceptEula /ProductKey:12345-67890-12345-67890-12345

Now it has been stuck at 10% for over 12 hours, with the following message:

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.14393.0

Image Version: 10.0.14393.0

Starting to update components...
Starting to install product key...
Finished installing product key.

Removing package Microsoft-Windows-ServerStandardEvalEdition~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~10.0.14393.0
[===== 10.0% ]


Seems like many people are seeing this issue and I see no response from Microsoft on how to work around this issue.

I would not have built the evaluation instance of the server except that I have read that a standard key could be used to upgrade a standard evaluation instance. If I would have been told that this may not work and you may have to restart from scratch with a fresh install, I would not have headed down this path. Please help save hours of work while I worked out licensing with my vender. FYI, sometimes licensing takes a while to work through, in this case am approaching a month from the date I bought the key until now when I attempt to register the instance. Any help would be very appreciated.

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