Today I realized that something from my past as a systems administrator has passed on. The NewSID tool has been retired by it’s founder himself, Mark Russinovich.

As it turns out it’s impact was pretty nominal, and might even be detrimental in some cases where software has been installed before the SID is changed. This is a scenario I have experienced myself actually. My intention was to prepare a fully installed BizTalk server which I could clone whenever I needed a new instance of it.

As it turns out the Enterprise Single Sign-On data becomes unavailable after the SID is changed. I’m guessing that the SID is somehow used to encrypt the data, and therefore the decryption fails with the new SID.

To read the specifics about why the tool has been retired head over to Marks own blog where he goes through all the gory details.

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