Re: sysprep

Hello Jeremy,

Check out Getsid:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc779004.aspx

Also NewSID can retrieve the old one:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897418.aspx

Best regards

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

"Anthony [MVP]" <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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
http://www.airdesk.co.uk
"Jeremy Schubert" <jscc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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  • Re: sysprep
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    (microsoft.public.windows.server.general)
  • sysprep
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