Same SID

[Tommy Forsman]

Hi

One of my clients have a NT domain with mostly XP clients (some 2000 and
NT4). The clients are cloned from a few different images so many of them
have the same SID. This havent been a problem in the NT4 domain.

Now we are about to migrate to 2003 AD.
Are we facing big trouble here??
or..
Can we migrate to 2003 without changing the SID?
or
Do we have to change SIDs before migration or after?

Tomppa

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Hi

One of my clients have a NT domain with mostly XP clients (some 2000 and
NT4). The clients are cloned from a few different images so many of them
have the same SID.

What kind of poorly designed imaging utility doesn't include a means of
assigning a unique SID to each new image?

This havent been a problem in the NT4 domain.

That's a little hard to believe, to be frank. I've seen all sorts of
complications from having duplicate SIDs on an NT domain. How'd your
client work around it?

Now we are about to migrate to 2003 AD.
Are we facing big trouble here??

I would certainly expect so.

or..
Can we migrate to 2003 without changing the SID?
or

Only if the domain isn't used for any business-critical purposes.

Do we have to change SIDs before migration or after?

Before is a lot safer.


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[Guest]

Thanks Bruce and John for your answers. Sorry that I havent replied earlier
but I use OE to write to newsgroups and OE still shows no replies. I now used
the web interface.

I will use newsid before beginning our migration to 2003

Thanks

Tomppa