Comments on: Change SID of an Object in AD http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/change-sid-of-an-object-in-ad/ Fri, 25 May 2012 10:43:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Wrobinson http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/change-sid-of-an-object-in-ad/#comment-51018 Wrobinson Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:10:53 +0000 #comment-51018 I am not sure what your reasons are for wanting to change the SID of an object, outside of those already stated by Spadasoe and Mrdenny, except in the case of a migration when you may wish to preserve SID History. In this case, you would be adding or the previous SID in order for an object to retain access to resources without having to re-ACL them. Microsoft article on SID History [A href="http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/6aef68d1-3479-4713-94be-38f8fd02919e1033.mspx"]http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/6aef68d1-3479-4713-94be-38f8fd02919e1033.mspx[/A] I am not sure what your reasons are for wanting to change the SID of an object, outside of those already stated by Spadasoe and Mrdenny, except in the case of a migration when you may wish to preserve SID History. In this case, you would be adding or the previous SID in order for an object to retain access to resources without having to re-ACL them.

Microsoft article on SID History

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