windows SIDs and NewSID
Ever use NewSID to regenerate a SID on a Windows PC? I worked at one place in the past that didn’t bother regenerating new SIDs from cloned PCs and you know what, we never saw a side-effect. Turns out there’s a reason…
Mark Russinovich over at Technet just posted an article today on the retirement of NewSID and how duplicate SIDs on a network won’t affect your systems unless they are domain controllers. In short, the machine SID (security identifier) isn’t used between machines and Microsoft will be changing their official policy as NewSID is retired.
