We use a software product that is licensed off of the windows SID. I'm restaging a 2003 box with windows 2008 R2 on it, but I can't find a way to force a SID to a specific value in Windows 2008 R2.

You've probably seen SID numbers on your Windows 2000 server and assumed that the numbers are random. They're not. Each SID has meaning, and here you can find out what that meaning is. As an ...

A SID or a Security Identifier is a unique code that helps identify any user or group and computer accounts across Windows Operating Systems. They are created as soon as a user account is created and ...