Afterwards the restore process worked well using the default GUI options. I added second VHD to another system, copied the last backup set in it, and then copied this VHD to the targeted VM where DC needs to be restored & attached it to the new VM. BAREMETAL: At one restoration lab of Baremetal restoration to different vm, I copied the last backup set to ISO image and added it to the new vm guest, but upon starting the restore process I always get the “ The System Image Restore Failed.I tested it few times via USB & network, both worked perfect & all AD components / functions working fine along with test user logging successfull with GP applied as well. BAREMETAL WORKS ! If we have Full Baremetal type backup via wbadmin/server backup, then we can do bare metal recovery of full system to OTHER dissimilar hardware machine, either via USB/Network share, and Active directory worked fine with all functions.(in the past when we had single DC and some components failure occurred & as a last resort Systemstate backup restoration worked, but on the same DC)

using Microsoft built-in tools, I tried a lot but failed to restore Active Directory Systemstate only backup to dissimilar hardware, Windows doesn’t boot after restoration.

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