It is but there is so much more unique identifying information that sysprep strips. The only time I would recommend newsid to someone is on a downlevel (NT4) machine or if you needed to get a new SID on something that was in production for some reason, and even then so I'd be pretty inclined to just wipe the box.
Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: sysprep question I don't have ANY issue with following the supported process. Newsid is just a short-cut. It works. Still available from the sysinternals site, so I'm guessing MSFT doesn't hate it but SO much! -----Original Message----- From: Brian Desmond [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: sysprep question Why wouldn't you just follow the supported process? It seems awfully silly to me to avoid it just because you can. Ghost has the hooks to run sysprep as part of the imaging process - hands free. You haven't really needed newsid or Ghost Walker since Windows 2000 came to be which at this point was a /long/ time ago. Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 4:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: sysprep question No. newsid from sysinternals does exactly what you want/need. I have confidence in newsid, because I know what it does and how it works. Ghostwalker may do the same or it may not. I don't know. -----Original Message----- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: sysprep question Is there a reason (besides its not supported by MS) to not use something like newsid or ghostwalker to change the SID on the cloned machine before joining the domain instead of using sysprep? - Andy O. ________________________________________ From: Brian Desmond [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: sysprep question You definitely need to sysprep. Whatever you're reading is wrong. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
