Windows Systems Do Not Require Unique SIDs

November 3rd, 2009 | Posted by Jason in Windows - (0 Comments)

Holy cow batman! The title says it all and is the conclusion of one Mark Russinovich — Windows Guru Guru Extraordinaire. Check out his blog post: The Machine SID Duplication Myth.

I was at a customer this week doing a one-day, whirlwind tour of Operating System Deployment (OSD) in ConfigMgr. They were specifically interested in server deployment so we set up a build and capture task sequence for Server 2003 SP2. Everything went well until the Prepare OS task which runs sysprep. It just wouldn’t finish; …
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