Microsoft broke binary compatibility for many SCSI/HBA drivers between SP1 and SP2 for Windows 2003.
That was in a "stable" series.
Some people found this out the hard way when they saw the bluescreen at boot.
The RC is still getting security updates.
Wish I had some points to mod this up. Well said
We are consuming a little more than a
How many years and millions would be spent getting them to renumber or forcing them to renumber through some sort of legal process?
How long is it going to take to transition to IPv6 - probably 10 years or more.
Where is the time and money better spent?
Domain SID doesn't equal the machine SID
He is talking about the machine SID.
Having duplicated domain SIDs is still a problem.
There is so much mythology around the word SID I think people need to read up.
WSUS uses a different unique identifier called the WSUSClientID - you can and should reset this. It's not the SID.
NewSID changes the machine SID
Unjoining and rejoining changes the domain SID
They aren't the same thing and MS support should have told you that.
You need to make sure the image wasn't joined to the domain and that each new copy does it's own join.
The domain SID in a domain joined image will cause problems.
Russinovich's post is about the machine SID which is not the same thing as a domain SID.
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