Teaching Myself New Tricks with SysPrep
12-16-09
Okay, so for most people visiting this website, i.e. my customers, your not going to be worried at all by this latest news entry, but I felt it worthy of note so that if you want, you can understand a bit more about the thought process that goes into some of the technical magic of Windows 
Mark Russinovich is quite a clever person who programmed a great tool called NewSID many moons ago and his company has been consumed by the all mighty Microsoft in recent years. He posted a blog entry recently where he removed his great tool from circulation. I was quite bemused by this and read the complete post in full. It goes into lots of detail, but suffices to say, the end result is that I now do not use his tool, but use Microsoft SysPrep in many more situations than I did before. It works behind the scenes using a much more systematic approach than Mark could ever have employed and does the job wonderfully.
Just goes to show that there is so much we can learn, even about things that are seemingly set in stone. I am still learning the whole topic of SID’S over again since I taught myself about NewSID and SysPrep and if you are at all interested in the technicalities, just drop me a mail and I will try and explain some of it.
Tags: Ghost, Mark, Microsoft, NewSID, SysInternals, SysPrep, Windows