This might sound a little bit far fetched but I have ran into issues a few times where you have a clone of a clone of a clone... etc, as the base image.
That will sometimes mess things up with the Windows AD security stuff.
So when you have run out of the easy options, try a complete new Windows install and see if that is the problem here.
Best regards,
Linjo
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