Category: MCITP

How to virtualize a Domain Controller

Dale ScrivenLeave a Comment on How to virtualize a Domain Controller

First off a domain controller is always a scary thing to p2v but it can actually be a fairly straightforward process to complete. In our network our DC’s also have other roles and services installed on them which made the easiest and proper way of just creating a new DC within the virtual environment then demoting and removing the old physical one rather difficult. So p2v was really our only optiRead More…

Generating a new SID in windows server 2008 R2

Dale ScrivenLeave a Comment on Generating a new SID in windows server 2008 R2

A lot of people use the newsid tool to generate new sids for servers this unfortunately does not work so well with server 2008 and can produce some stunning results if you try and use it in R2 (hint it wont boot afterwards). However you can create a newsid with sysprep, which is installed by default with server 2k8. Click Start/Run
Type sysprep into the box and hit enter
it will direct you to thRead More…