Hi,
I'm setting up a test lab network that is completely isolated from my main company network. My first task is to get one of my domain controllers that run as a virtual machine on my company network restored in the test lab network so that I can have DNS, DHCP and all the other domain functions available to my test lab systems. Currently I take full Windows backups of all of our domain controllers using the standard Windows backup program.
I've setup a new Hyper-V host machine for the test lab network and configured all the networking and that all seems fine. My issue occurs when I attempt to restore the machine backup of one of my 2012 R2 domain controllers to a new hyper-V machine I've set up on my new Hyper-V host. I've created a new hyper-v guest machine for the domain controller and I boot from this machine using a 2012 R2 DVD image and can do a bare metal restore with no problems. And I can successfully login to the newly restored machine as well but when I go and look at the event logs I see lots of errors about DNS and Active Directory and it appears that Active Directory isn't working properly.
Also and maybe this is related, the network card on the test lab Hyper-V host machine is different than on the Hyper-V host machine that the backup of the virtual 2012 R2 domain controller came from so when I start up the newly restored virtual 2012 R2 domain controller in the test lab I have to reset all the networking and IP addresses and I get a message that says something like:
The IP address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX you have entered for this network adapter is already assigned to another adapter Name of adapter. Name of adapter is hidden from the network...
Is there a prescribed way to restore a 2012 R2 virtual domain controller?
Thanks in advance,
Nick