fooby Posted November 2, 2009 Posted November 2, 2009 Just to let all know, NewSID from Sysinternals (Microsoft) is being retired today. While there will be a million mirrors on the internet afterwards, it might still be sensible to grab it today while the newest is on the site. NewSID v4.10 Get it while its there, "just in case" happy sidgenning
K.C.Leblanc Posted November 2, 2009 Posted November 2, 2009 Is there an official replacement, or are we meant to use SYSPrep?
Dos_Box Posted November 2, 2009 Posted November 2, 2009 Goodbye old freind. A damned handy little util if ever there was one.
fooby Posted November 2, 2009 Author Posted November 2, 2009 (edited) Well Sysprep is the Official way to do things, NewSID is just another tool (with a few other special abilities) Really, we should be deploying Vista / Win7 via Windows Deployment Services and not needing to change the SID of a workstation. We (a business) unfortunately use Windows XP, so it might be useful here (im using it with vmware for some test workstations to package to MSI) Its probably not a useful tool anymore so Microsoft are depreciating it. Graeme ...p.s The page says Version 4.0 introduces support for Windows XP and .NET Server, a wizard-style interface, allows you to specify the SID that you want applied, Registry compaction and also the option to rename a computer (which results in a change of both NetBIOS and DNS names). So it doesnt appear to support Vista/7 Edited November 2, 2009 by fooby added footnote
mac_shinobi Posted November 2, 2009 Posted November 2, 2009 thanks for the heads up , have downloaded that and saved a copy of there web page before they take it down. Looks like If I want to suggest using SID to either upload both the saved web page and sid zip file or stick to suggesting sysprep lol
MrEprise Posted November 2, 2009 Posted November 2, 2009 Bummer. So useful when Ghost fails on its SID change, and since I never learnt how to use Sysprep, NewSID is always a good fallback. Suppose I should start reading up about Sysprep...
mattx Posted November 2, 2009 Posted November 2, 2009 It's on the Admin Bar just in case anyone forgets to grab it.....
AngryTechnician Posted November 3, 2009 Posted November 3, 2009 Really interesting post from Mark Russinovich about this today... Mark's Blog : The Machine SID Duplication Myth It turns out that changing the SID is, and always has been a waste of time! 3
Soulfish Posted November 3, 2009 Posted November 3, 2009 Really interesting post from Mark Russinovich about this today... Mark's Blog : The Machine SID Duplication Myth It turns out that changing the SID is, and always has been a waste of time! That makes for some very interesting reading!
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