Change sid with sysprep windows 2008

No trackbacks yet. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email required Address never made public. Name required. Blog Stats 6, hits. Top Blog at WordPress. Follow Following. Sign me up. Already have a WordPress. I downloaded and tested the newsid. It worked fine. However, I want to let you know that newsid. Microsoft has not tested NewSID for all deployment cloning options. Besides, if you want to automatically configure the system after booting the computer, you can use the answer files with sysprep to achieve this.

Because this answer file is cached, when you run Sysprep, settings in the cached answer file are applied. If you use the settings in a different answer file, you can specify a separate Unattend.

I hope this helps. Best regards,. Will my drivers be included with the image? Yes, your drivers should be included as sysprep is typically the process that OEMs such as Dell use to install the OS and drivers before shipping you your computer.

Thanks for the info. I have found it helpful so far, but I have a couple of questions about sysprepping in my environment. Server R2 x64 — citrix XenApp5. That process should basically take it out of the farm as far as I can tell. After doing the XenAppPrep, I plan to run Sysprep, and then shut that server down, then create an image of it by booting to my shadowprotect cd and using the image backup function.

Then I plan to copy that image to another server and my hopes are that I can get it up and running, on the domain and in the farm without any software installs necessary.

I then want to be able to bring server A back up as a server in the domain and also in the farm. My questions are… 1. Do I need to remove Server A from the domain before I sysprep it?

If I have to remove it from the domain will I be able to get it rejoined to the domain before my XenAppPrep kicks in and tries to join the farm? I know this question may be a bit off topic but it is related to the whole sysprep process and maybe someone has been through it. I did sysprep in my windows R2 VM. And after sysprep, i see that the new image is not booting up.

I followed all the steps correctly. During bootup i see one cmd prompt window opens up during setting up services screen, throws some red colored text in the cmd prompt and then reboots.

After reboot also same issue continues. Could you pls let me know why the sysprepped image is not booting up? I hope you can clarify how to use the sysprep tool for cloning an OS. I want to take an image of a Windows Server and copy it onto other servers. I have already created the image of the server. Do I load the image onto another server and then once loaded and installed, I run sysprep to change SIDs, computer name, activation code, etc.?

Or do I run through sysprep steps first on the host I want to clone, then create an image, then copy the image to a server and the sysprep will guide me through the first time booting up? You set up the initial server, run sysprep to re-seal the OS, and then transfer it to another server. I trying to sysprep a server and use Imagex to get the image file but it keeps failing as it does not find the image file.

Could you please help with that process. What exactly happened? Would you advise me? And oh, by the way, if your source computer is already joined to a domain, remove it from the domain make it a workgroup computer before SYSPREP.

This is another source of pain. Everything seems to work fine except that my VHD changes what I had in my domain. For instance, I used company. Try this in a. CMD file on an effected machine or in logon scripts:. REM — d. James, thanks for the article, BUT you make a statement that is not entirely correct — stating it is the same for bit and bit — not necessarily true.

So, there are some subtle syswow64 differences and along those lines; wow also maybe? Hi Folks. I have a question for you … Hope that someone will be able to help me … My customer has cloned a Windows Server R2 three times in order to have some lab machines.

Now he has attempted to join them to the Active Directory where two Domain Controllers exist. Now he gets some problems that seems due to the fact that Systems have the same SID. Is not a license problem, customer has the right license for each server.

Hope someone can give me some suggestion Thanks. Please note that I am a developer, not a sysadmin. I would recommend asking your questions on ServerFault. James Kovacs' Weblog. Miscellaneous none. Written by Amber about 13 years ago. Thank you so much! Such a simple solution to hours of aggravation!! Written by Nick Marson about 13 years ago. Thank you once again James! Written by Gary Grudzinskas about 13 years ago.

Way to keep it simple James.