Suddenly I have 85 users on my server!

Hello everyone, I'm hoping someone here can help me.
We've been running a Mac Mini server with Mavericks and Server v3 on it for over 6 weeks and nothing to concern me has happened. In fact it's been a dream compared to our old NAS box.
Anyway I've updated server this morning with the security update released this week and all seemed fine until about 2 hours ago when one user suddenly was locked out and unable to connect, despite using the correct password.
A restart of the client Mac didn't help. Restarting the server application didn't help. So I restarted the server hardware itself.
Upon restarting the server it took a while to get to a desktop, and then when I logged in and opened the Server app, I had to connect to the "***.local" server again, which took around 5 minutes to connect.
When it was back up and running, our user could connect again with no issue, but as I looked in the users list, there was suddenly a list of 85 users (as opposed to the original 4!), which seem to have "system related" names... such as CVS Server (local user) and a range of others "daemons" included.
What is most concerning to me though, is that there is a new user called "System Administrator" with an orange triangle next to it, telling me it needs to be "fixed". I'm kinda freaked out that all these users have been generated by the system itself, without any prompting from myself. Also our original administrator account that I had made when I set-up the server itself, has had the "administer this server" button changed from a solid tick, to the blue box with a single line across it (not a global administrate option anymore)
Worth pointing out is that we are on a network with other servers (not all mac based) and shared computers... Dunno if it is anything to do with that but maybe it is.
Can anyone shed any light on this for me, or is anyone else experiencing the same change after the update?
Cheers for any help provided.
Mark.

Hi MrHoffman, thanks for your reply!
I know for a fact that the DNS is set to .local - it's the default one so I've never altered that. The changes that occurred seemed to happen after the recent apple security update was applied. If ".local" causes so much trouble is there a reason that it's the default? (I'm not that technically minded - it's just a wonder more than anything.)
Upon closer inspection I can see that the hostname has had two hyphens added to it, where the spaces are in our business name. (Previously it was named without the spaces, just all typed as one word.)
I guess that if there was a long delay in the DNS update then maybe it would account for the user suddenly being unable to connect/use the server.
As for the users, I know where I can see the list of them, the thing is that previously there were only 4 in the list, now there's 85, including a new "System Administrator". It's functioning normally again, but I guess I was really looking to see if anyone else had seen the user list grow without prompting. If it's normal then that's totally fine with me, but as I say it freaked me aout a little when there are suddenly a bunch of new users on the list.
Cheers again!
M:

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