Sep 25, 2012 Posted by vikasbhat0608@gmail.com

The Machine SID Duplication Myth (and Why Sysprep Matters)

On November 3 2009, Sysinternals retired NewSID, a utility that changes a computers machine Security Identifier (machine SID). I wrote NewSID in 1997 (its original name was NTSID) because the only tool available at the time for changing machine SIDs was the Microsoft Sysprep tool, and Sysprep doesn’t support changing the SIDs of computers that have applications installed. A... read more