Cloning Windows 11 and the Importance of changing local SID

[Helmuth Baum]

Hi,

We use Acronis to deploy our Windows 11 image and we have been using this solution since we started rolling out Windows 10. However we recently got new HW for Windows 11 and noticed the latest version of Acronis doesn’t have the change SID option. We call Acronis and as per their  tech support changing SID is no longer needed. Has anyone deployed cloned workstations and experienced issues?

[Jamie McNamara]

Changing SID isn't a thing anymore unless you have crazy legacy software that trips up on it. Here is a re-post of the iconic post from 2009! You may have some processes.....that may need to be updated.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-blog-archive/the-machine-sid-duplication-myth-and-why-sysprep-matters/ba-p/723859

On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 5:16 AM Helmuth Baum <helmu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

We use Acronis to deploy our Windows 11 image and we have been using this solution since we started rolling out Windows 10. However we recently got new HW for Windows 11 and noticed the latest version of Acronis doesn’t have the change SID option. We call Acronis and as per their  tech support changing SID is no longer needed. Has anyone deployed cloned workstations and experienced issues?

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