Hello!
Im finding mysellf in a bit of a hassle. A customer had a DC running 2008 R2, IIS server and a bunch of SQL instances, and File servr with 3+ tb of data and Print-servers and a bunch of licensing software for CAD-software running on one server.
Early on i noticed that the AD-DS role where acting up on the machine. with users connected to this server would not get GPO:s distributed nor the right permissions in the domain.
So we decided to split the server into several new ones, and then finally demote the server and remove it.
But due to the pure number of things they had running on this machine, we appear to have missed a few things. However this came to light first after we preformed the DCPROMO demote.
The issue seemes to be that several softwares where installed with local accounts that aren't available anymore. Among these is an accounting-software that we where told, wherew not used anymore. However turns out they still need it.
So my question here is, can i restore the server from backups to its pre-demote state? My gut feeling says that this is a bad idea. However, is it posible to restore the VM from backups to a new host. Disconnect the network. Start it up, and stop replication to the remaining DCs in the domain?
if this is the case, My plan is to keep the machine running and have users access the web-gui for the software
The "original" machine is also still not fully closed due to remaining files waiting to be moved.f
Thankfull for any input on this!