Did you check to see if Network Service has permissions in the new instance?
USE Master
GO
select left(name,25) name, type, type_desc
from sys.server_principals AS log
WHERE (log.type in ('U', 'G', 'S', 'R'))
AND Name LIKE 'NT%'
order by 3,1
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