Hi, Just wanted to check in with an update. I've had quite a few meetings with the client regarding the cloning of the device and received quite a lot of pushback from the infrastructure team.
I've explained the situation and they are willing to let me clone a prod server, however the will not let me give the server any sort of network connection. I've explained we could rename the server and add this to a DEV environment obs removing any application services beforehand, but they seem unwilling to do so.
If we have no network and and a side note I have no USB access to this environment. I'll have no way of copying anything and to and from the server, eg logs, fixes ect
I've suggested we go down the snapshot route and I work on this out of hours and they seem happy with that approach. I would prefer the cloning route, but unfortunately it's not my call.
I'll snapshot the server this evening 5:30pm and try the DISM fix in your last post then provide CBS logs.
Thanks