I have an issue trying to do a BMR of our Primary Domain Controller which is running Windows Server 2008 on a VM hosted on a ESXI server.
I am trying to restore an image which was taken a year ago in a test environment. I have setup a test ESXI server on a completely different network. The reason I need to restore my 1 year old image is because something is not working right which used to when this image was taken. So to rule out that our domain controller is the problem, I am trying to do a bare metal restore of this image. I use Retrospect to backup the domain controller taking system state snapshots. After I restore the image to the test VM I boot into DSRM. I figured out that I had to change the date and time of the DC to the date and time of the image then I can reboot normally otherwise I get a BSOD. However active directory does not seemed to be running right. Is there a proper procedure I need to do when restoring a Primary domain controller from a 1 year old system state image?
DHCP server would not run until I removed the server and re-authorized it. I open GPO editor an I get an error "cannot find network name".
If I try to add a client machine to the domain it can't find the domain. I get an error DNS Server failure 0x0000232A RCODE_SERVER_FAILURE. I have also tried to do a full domain authoritative restore and still no luck.
Any Ideas?