Symptoms
When you remove a replica from an AlwaysOn availability group, for example, by using the ALTER AVAILABILITY GROUP statement, as follows:
ALTER AVAILABILITY GROUP group_name REMOVE REPLICA ON 'instance_name' [,...n]
You may find "Deadlocked Schedulers" dump files in the error log on the primary replica.
Resolution
The issue was first fixed in the following cumulative update of SQL Server:
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Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
