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Does Windows Server 2008 R2 allow you to rejoin a disjoin client to the domain with the same SID?

To test this theory, I created a Snapshot in Hyper-V of a Windows 7 Client. Once I completed this I had Active Directory reset the password to the client. Next I applied the snapshot that I just took to create a disjointed account.

When an attempt to log in is made, this is the error:
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The question from class is if I put this client in a workgroup, and then back in a domain, will it have the same SID?

First off, I went into Active Directory and recorded the SID for the clients computer object.
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Next I logged in as the local administrator on the client and first put the client in a workgroup, and then back in the domain.  One thing that I did notice during this process.  Even though the computer could not create a secure channel to the domain controller, when I took it off the network, the computers object was disabled.

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Once the client was joined to the network, its account re-enabled.
Also, the SID was reused.

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On a side note.  This client was used previously to test the ability for a standard user to add a client to the domain without Domain Administrator credentials.  In that process, the users SID was recorded in the computer objects ms-DS-CreatorSID.  Even thought I rejoined the client to the network using a Domain Admin account, the original user who added this client to the domain still has their SID listed in the ms-DS-CreatorSID attribute of the clients account.

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Anonymous said…
Hi, Did you try deleting the machine account after you removed the computer from the Domain and before rejoining it back to the Domain?
If you delete the computer object from Active Directory and then rejoin the client, you will get a new SID. However, if you first restore the object from the Active Directory Recycle Bin first, and then join the client back into the domain, the original properties of that object, including the SID, will be retained.

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