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Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 “Changing the Primary Domain DNS name of this computer to “” failed….”

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Windows Server 2008 R2 VMs started giving me errors while joining the domain recently, here is the exact error message that comes up:

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netsetup.log (%SystemRoot%\debug\netsetup.log) shows no errors and my VMs appears to be joined properly:

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Now to fix this there are two potential solutions/recommendations:
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