Duplicated SID's

From: Christian Mercadal (cm@airinmar.com)
Date: 11/01/02


From: "Christian Mercadal" <cm@airinmar.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 06:49:17 -0800


I have been ghosting XP machines with a Norton Ghost, but
never came to the thought of the SID. Therefore, I made a
complete image of an XP machine and ghosted it to a number
of others. Now, I must have duplicated SIDs.
Is that a big problem? Will that create comunication
problems at the AD level? Would this kind of comunication
problems appear at the Event viewer, or perhaps they are
internal and they aren't reported?
How can I check the SID number of a machine, so I can
compare it to another?
If that is the case, and all this machines that are
operating, have duplicated SIDs, Can I change that SID
with Sysprep or another third party tool? or in the other
hand, Sysprep only extract the unique information before
you create the Image and then it prompt you to enter that
unique information.

Thanks in advanced.

Christian



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