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Windows 2003 R2 to Windows 2012 R2
Sorry for the late reply, but I only go to this client once a week. I was able to download a copy of Windows 2008 R2 from the Microsoft download site and Installed it on a desktop that I had. The 2008 server works fine. You are correct, AD never did get converted from FRS to DFSR. Then I did something stupid. I was trying to replicate FRS to the new 2008 R2 server and it was giving me DNS errors as you can see from the screenshot. Then I did something stupid and did a non authoritative restore of active directory. Now active directory is not working at all and I do not have a backup of active directory on the 2003 server. The backup is only on the 2012 server, but I don't think that will help since AD was never replicated to that server.
I can still see the sysvol folders on the 2003 server, and it looks like most if not all the folders and files are still there. I can also connect to ADUC and other AD apps. I can see users and create new users. The only thing I don't know is if I can login as a new user because I am not there onsite. However, I cannot run gpupdate. But that makes sense because I know AD is not sharing the sysvol. I know that replication to the new server never happened to the 2008 server because It's gotten an Event ID 13508 in the File Replication Service log ever since I made the 2008 server a domain controller. To me it almost seems like there is no way out of this now. But let me know if you have any ideas.
Thank you
Doug