Everyone Said You Needed NewSID… You Didn't

In the late 90s, deploying Windows NT machines at scale wasn’t as simple as it is today. In my last video, we looked at how we could deploy 40 PCs over a weekend using disk imaging. But that left a big problem: every machine came out identical. In this video, I show how we solved that… and why one of the biggest myths from that era, the idea that you had to use NewSID. Wasn’t actually true. There’s been a long-standing belief that cloning Windows NT machines without changing the SID would cause serious problems on the network. But that’s not how Windows authentication actually works. In this video, I walk through: How we automated naming and domain joining on Windows NT Why duplicate machine SIDs weren’t the issue people thought they were The real limitations of tools like Ghost with dissimilar hardware 00:00 Intro 00:25 Scripting Ghost 01:42 NTIL Switch 02:15 Ghost Failure 03:15 Ghost Success 03:49 Golden Image 04:25 Auto Naming Machine 08:50 Auto Deployment 10:50 The SIS Myth 11:30 Dissimilar Hardware