Microsoft Windows Refresh with NewSID

Date: Friday August 17, 2007
Posted in: Server Tech

Since my daily job is mostly on server side maintenance and troubleshooting, i would talk about some of the tools that we can use for server monitoring and performance tuning.

For the first post on this topic, i would like to talk about NewSID from sysinternals of Microsoft TechNet. This tool is applicable for both server and desktop computers.

We built quite a numbers of server monthly to cater for new software deployment and databases roll out in production. Most organisation will use disk image cloning software like Norton Ghost for desktop computers and alternatively, you can use HP Proliant Essentials Rapid Deployment for Microsoft Windows or Linux deployment on servers platform.

The advantages of disk cloning is that you does not have to go through the installation process for each and every computer or server. What you need is just an image to clone it over to new hardware.

The disadvantages is that, after cloning, the computer or server will keep the initial Computer Security Identifier (SID). This will give error to some applications like Organisation’s Antivirus software, making the auto updates of Antivirus fails.

NewSID from sysinternals will be really handy in this case. What you need to do is just run this tool once in your computer or server after cloned over. It will assigned a new SID to the windows to make you windows a real fresh unit after cloning and you can avoid most of the application error caused by the SID problems.

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    Doesn’t sysprep create a new SID for the ghosted image?

    Comment by brian on August 17th, 2007 @ 2:53 pm

    Hi Brian,
    Thanks for your comment. I agreed with you that Sysprep is another great tools provided by microsoft to prepare system to initial state.

    Comment by newopps on August 18th, 2007 @ 10:08 pm

    [...] mentioned about renew Microsoft Windows SID with NewSID tools in my previous post and I will talk about another easy way to reinitialise your [...]

    Comment by TechLife » Blog Archive » Reinitialise Microsoft Windows with SysPrep on August 21st, 2007 @ 5:55 am

    Hello,
    I tried newsid with Microsoft vista. It doesn’t work.
    Has anyone any suggestions?
    Thanks
    Mike.

    Comment by Michael on September 8th, 2007 @ 11:23 pm

    Hi Michael,

    Newsid doesn’t work with Vista. May be you shall use Sysprep instead.

    Hope it helps…

    Comment by newopps on September 9th, 2007 @ 12:45 am

    Any Idea what NewSid does to a system that’s been up and running for a while? Does it rip out the License or drivers?

    Thanks,
    CK

    Comment by CK on August 5th, 2008 @ 2:19 pm

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