Re: Duplicated SID's

From: Dexter Reed (lactoz@hotmail.com)
Date: 11/01/02 

From: "Dexter Reed" <lactoz@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:47:53 -0500

Use sysprep as was suggest to you. Microsoft does not support machines that
were ghosted unless you use sysprep. Oh and sysprep is far from over kill.

"Christian Mercadal" <cm@airinmar.com> wrote in message
news:28cd01c281b5$da645f70$37ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA13...
> 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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