Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Reset a Machine's SID without using sysprep

Andrew, I can't see what might depend on it later in the course but, as after each "exercise" we clear up the machine anyway, I'm going to just leave them without being reset until the need comes. From what I've read, there aren't cases where the SID gets piped out through the network that come up very often, so I think I'll be safe. Now having great fun with LAN segments and DHCP scopes and it's all a most educational and interesting experience. Thanks, Sean. On 06/01/2013, Andrew Hodgson wrote:

Hi,

Is there an absolute requirement to change the machine ID? I have gone ages at work with using the same images and not syspreping. I hate doing this in live environments, but you may be able to get away with it.

Andrew.

-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Sean Randall Sent: 06 January 2013 21:49 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Reset a Machine's SID without using sysprep

Hi Ryan,

I found that, whenever I ran Sysprep to get a new ID for the system, the windows audio service returned to its default state in 2008 R2 (which is disabled). I suppose mainly I wanted to work out a way to change the ID without doing much else so I wouldn't have to re-enable the service for every machine really. I understand the ID and the services have no relation, yet presumably because I'm returning the server to the out-of-the-box setup, the service gets disabled as that's how it started.

Sean.

On 06/01/2013, Ryan Shugart wrote:

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Sean: Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but the SSID and audio services have nothing to do with each other. I believe there is a sysprep command that does nothing but reset the SSID, but I don't remember it off the top of my head. The software we use to spon up new VMs automatically does change the SSID, but on Windows Server 2008 and newer, I don't think the need to change the SSID is as big as before. I saw an article once where the author put forth the argument that changing the SSID was a bad idea, but I personally don't agree, at the worst it doesn't hurt anything. Ryan

-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Sean Randall Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2013 4:13 PM To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Reset a Machine's SID without using sysprep

Hi all,

I'm joining this list as I've recently started my undergraduate degree with a course on Microsoft Server Technologies at the Open University. In practical terms, this means I learn about configuring Windows Server 2008 network infrastructure, Active Directory etc, and I'm hoping to pick a few of your brains on issues as they relate to accessibility.

First issue I have, I've got a bunch of virtual machines good to go but they're all clones. Is there a way of resetting their SIDs without using sysprep, so I don't have to go about re-enabling windows audio and so forth? NewSID seems to no longer be available. DO I even need to bother doing the SID reset thing? I don't know the entire scope of the university's course but am struggling to find a scenario where not doing this would cause a problem.

Any help and advice gratefully received and, I hope to hang around on the list for quite some time. One day, maybe I'll be able to be of use to someone as new as I am!

Sean.

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