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What happens to the Windows SID when using StorageCraft?

Last post 03-01-2008 5:36 PM by Nate. 4 replies.
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  • 01-16-2008 3:18 PM

    What happens to the Windows SID when using StorageCraft?

    Hi Nate :) Quick question in regards to disk cloning for Volume License customers: When cloning systems, we used to use ghost, then run ghost walker to change over the SID of Windows. Since Ghost sucks (excuse my French) we want to start using StorageCraft for the same task (hardware changes every couple weeks these days, so masters get useless fast - hail HIR :). Does HIR also change the Windows SID or do we have to run SysPrep on every machine before releasing it into the customer network? Cheers
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  • 01-16-2008 3:25 PM In reply to

    • bsdice
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    Re: What happens to the Windows SID when using StorageCraft?

     My name is not Nate but you will need sysprep or newsid.

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  • 01-16-2008 3:29 PM In reply to

    Re: What happens to the Windows SID when using StorageCraft?

    ShadowProtect does not modify the SID during a restore operation, so you will need to use some other tool to do this (post-restore), such as newsid, as indicated by bsdice.

    This is usually only an issue for deployment of a single image to multiple clients on the same domain, IIRC. 

  • 03-01-2008 10:22 AM In reply to

    Re: What happens to the Windows SID when using StorageCraft?

    After restore change the machine name and you get the SID changed !

  • 03-01-2008 5:36 PM In reply to

    Re: What happens to the Windows SID when using StorageCraft?

    If you want a new SID after an HIR restore then I suggest that you run the sysinternals/microsoft newsid.exe tool.
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