Generating a new SID in windows server 2008 R2

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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 the sysprep folder
double click the exe in the folder
leave the default option “Enter system out of box experience” and tick the generalise box which is the bit that will generate a new sid.
Click OK and wait for a bit the server will reboot run though some basic installation tasks and also run you through the mini-setup process. This is great for template vm’s that have not already been set to to Read More…

Migrating Outlook autocorrect to a new profile

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When you’ve done all that you can to diagnose a problem and you are left with the last bastian of hope that is migrating the user to a new profile (I do this by renaming the current one to something.old) along with PST’s and desktop, document and favourite folders you can also migrate Outlooks autocomplete data. The file extention for the autocomplete data is *.NK2 which is normally located (in Outlook 2007) in %userprofile%application datamicrosoftOutlook . Copy the NK2 file into the newly created profile and ensure that the NK2 file is renamed to match whatever you have chosen to call the Outlook profile in the users new profile. Et voila, years’ worth of autocorrect data back.Read More…