The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted
Move the windows server into a dummy workgroup then back into the domain it was originally on to resolve:
The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted
However you may get:
The following error occurred attempting to join the domain "abc.123":
The request is not supported.
Checking the logs we see this:
%systemroot%\debug\netsetup.log
01/23/2018 19:57:02:446 NetpIsTargetImageADC: Determined this is a DC image as RegQueryValueExW loaded Services\NTDS\Parameters\DSA Database file: 0x0
01/23/2018 19:57:02:446 NetpOpenRegistry: The image at C:\Windows\system32\config\SYSTEM is a DC: 0x32.
In this case find out the path of the DSA Database file:
Location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTDS\Parameters\
Field: DSA Database file
then remove it. Or move it out of the way:
PS C:\windows\ntds> mv ntds.dit ntds.dit-bad
PS C:\windows\ntds> dir
Directory: C:\windows\ntds
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
—- ————- —— —-
-a— 1/23/2018 2:21 PM 8192 edb.chk
-a— 1/23/2018 2:21 PM 10485760 edb.log
-a— 1/23/2018 2:21 PM 10485760 edbres00001.jrs
-a— 1/23/2018 2:21 PM 10485760 edbres00002.jrs
-a— 1/23/2018 2:21 PM 10485760 edbtmp.log
-a— 1/23/2018 2:21 PM 12599296 ntds.dit-bad
-a— 1/23/2018 2:21 PM 2113536 temp.edb
PS C:\windows\ntds>
Cheers,
TK