I might be in over my head on this one. But I don't like giving up.
I set up a Small Business Server Essentials 2008 with the Domain Controller feature. Everything was working fine out of the box.
I then added a new DC to replace the SBS. I can't remember if that was on Windows Server 2008 (called Central). That went somewhat okay but the problems might have started here.
I then replaced that DC with my current Windows Server 2012 DC (called Focus). I remember I had some problems with the SYSVOL/Netlogon shares not being there. I created them manually and had a lot of problems having the clients add to the domain. That problem went away, I am not sure what happened but it was just working at some point.
Anyways today I have to remove the DC role from the Win2012DC (Focus) since it's an evaluation windows and I have to upgrade to a real key. For some reason that can only be done on none DC servers.
The new domain controller (Called DC-Temp2) was installed, DC role added and the 5 operation masters was moved. Or at least so I thought. But when I go back to Focus it complains it can't connect to the PDC. Also the SYSVOL/Netlogon shares are not present on DC-Temp2.
I notice when I check the DFS Replication status it tries to connect to 2nd DC (Central). The server is of cause offline and DFS times out.
My guess is that there are left over metadata somewhere but Central is not to be found i user/Computers or Sites/Domains
On Focus:
C:\Users\Control>dcdiag /qThere are warning or error events within the last 24 hours after the
SYSVOL has been shared. Failing SYSVOL replication problems may cause
Group Policy problems.
......................... FOCUS failed test DFSREvent
[FOCUS] User credentials does not have permission to perform this
operation.
The account used for this test must have network logon privileges
for this machine's domain.
......................... FOCUS failed test NetLogons
[Replications Check,FOCUS] DsReplicaGetInfo(PENDING_OPS, NULL) failed,
error 0x2105 "Replication access was denied."
......................... FOCUS failed test Replications
Could not open NTDS Service on FOCUS, error 0x5 "Access is denied."
......................... FOCUS failed test Services
On DC-Temp2:
C:\Windows\system32>dcdiag /qWarning: DsGetDcName returned information for \\FOCUS.ALOGAT.local,
when we were trying to reach DC-TEMP2.
SERVER IS NOT RESPONDING or IS NOT CONSIDERED SUITABLE.
......................... DC-TEMP2 failed test Advertising
Unable to connect to the NETLOGON share! (\\DC-TEMP2\netlogon)
[DC-TEMP2] An net use or LsaPolicy operation failed with error 67,
The network name cannot be found..
......................... DC-TEMP2 failed test NetLogons