Windows xP computer SID duplication

Hello,

I have made a clone with Drive Image 6 (MSDOS diskette) for a Windows XP
with SP2 with all the patches.
I have deployed this clone image using the same tool for a 100 PC's.
After the first reboot I have changed manually the computer name on every PC.
I have joined all the PC's to a Windows 2003 domain.
Everything is working fine.
I have WSUS 3.0 and SMS 2003 and all the clients are OK and the management
is OK.

All computer have the same computer SID - I have used PSGETSID
http://technet.microsoft.com/ro-ro/sysinternals/bb897417(en-us).aspx

How come you can join hundreds PC's with the same computer SID to a domain?
When I will have problems with this situation?

Thank you,

anonymous wrote:
> I have made a clone with Drive Image 6 (MSDOS diskette) for a Windows XP
> with SP2 with all the patches.
> I have deployed this clone image using the same tool for a 100 PC's.
> After the first reboot I have changed manually the computer name on every
> PC.
> I have joined all the PC's to a Windows 2003 domain.
> Everything is working fine.
> I have WSUS 3.0 and SMS 2003 and all the clients are OK and the management
> is OK.
>
> All computer have the same computer SID - I have used PSGETSID
> http://technet.microsoft.com/ro-ro/sysinternals/bb897417(en-us).aspx
>
> How come you can join hundreds PC's with the same computer SID to a
> domain?
> When I will have problems with this situation?

Actually - the SID is changed when you join the domain - at least to the
domain all the SIDs are different.

If they were all in a workgrup - you might have had a problem.

My only question is why did you not use a tool like NEWSID or something to
change not only the names but the SID as well - so you wouldn't have to even
think about this question?

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