Re: sysprep

Thank you both. Please tell me how I can determine what my current SIDs are.

"Anthony [MVP]" <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Ok3GmA7gJHA.1248@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Jeremy
1) Sysprep is required for applying an image to a new computer.
2) Sysprep in Vista is different from XP and before
3) Sysinternals newsid and Altiris sidgen are not supported by Microsoft. If you use these, you will not be able to get support for your installations of Vista. They are OK in a lab where you want to make a quick re-image, but not in production
4) Sysprep with Altiris is built-in. You just need to set it up with your volume license keys.
5) If you don't have volume license keys you can not legally deploy images.
6) Confusingly, you can use the same OEM Product Key with Vista, but not with XP.
7) Duplicate SID's cause local authentication errors, but also they are not supported, because how would you get a duplicate SID except by imaging with an unsupported method?
Regards,
Anthony
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"Jeremy Schubert" <jscc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:FDAE7D96-14B6-4465-AC55-15CC5D8033CC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm having a disagreement with a fellow tech. We use Altiris 6.9 to image labs at different schools. He said that he called Altiris and the engineer said that sysprep wasn't required when imaging Vista. It's not clear to me if Altiris has a sid changer for Vista or not. The documentation I've seen on the web says that sysprep must be used to image Vista. I'm assuming that there might now be an updated sid changer other then sysprep that changes sids.

My questions to the newsgroup are
1. Is one of syspreps functions to reside Vista?
2. What actually happens when duplicate sids are found on the network?


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