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Does renaming a PC change the SID ?
Simple question, no cloing involved. If a PC on a domain gets renamed does the SID get changed automatically and if not is it an issue ?
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Alex
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Alex
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If you are cloning the PCs, they must run Sysprep either as part of the imaging process or after the new clone is created. You can also use a third party tool called NewSID to recreate a new SID BEFORE you join the domain. Simply renaming the PC whether it's on or off a domain does NOT recreate a unique machine SID.
By the way, the NewSID utility from SysInternals for changing the SID:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897418.aspx