P2V a 2008 R2 DC on Hyper-V 2012 R2 with VMM 2012 R2

We are looking to use Hyper-V in one of our offices and i'm looking for the best way to move one of our physical DCs which is also a print server to a VM running on a Hyper-V cluster. I would like to P2V this server because been the print server for
that office i don't want to have to recreate a new VM server as a print server and then reinstall all the printers on the users PCs.
Now the problem i'm facing is that VMM 2012 R2 has removed the Convert Physical to Virtual feature so i'm left wondering how to do this? I have seen Disk2vhd but this only does online systems and as the server is a DC and its recommend to do P2V on
DCs offline that's out. Or i could demount the server from been a DC and then do an online conversion. Another option is to use VMM 2012 which still has the feature to do P2V but in testing if my Hyper-V server is 2012 R2 then VMM 2012 won't allow
me to add it as a host. So would i have to start with Hyper-V 2012 and VMM 2012, do the P2V then upgrade Hyper-V to 2012 R2 and then upgrade VMM to 2012 R2?
WHY WHY WHY have Microsoft taken the P2V feature out of VMM 2012 R2??????

In every Environment, there should be a physical DC, this one should be backup up with BMR, so the Active Directory will bee backed up correctly
Every VM DC is enough to backup the VM
If all your DC are virtual, pleas ebackup one with BMR
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