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thegleek wrote:So how does Microsoft prevent pirating in this kind of way? What if you used Acronis to "backup" that hard drive to 50 other 1gb hard drives, then sell those to the Malaysian public at the cost of the HDD plus some $ for your time...
Keep in mind this is a 3rd world make-believe story here. What I'm asking is WHAT prevents people from using Acronis for the good of evil?
just brew it! wrote:Product Activation.
Once activated, the image is tied to a unique "fingerprint" of the system on which the activation was performed. In previous versions of Windows, the MAC address of the NIC was given fairly heavy weight in this fingerprint; I don't know what the current algorithm (in Windows 7) is.
thegleek wrote:just brew it! wrote:Product Activation.
Once activated, the image is tied to a unique "fingerprint" of the system on which the activation was performed. In previous versions of Windows, the MAC address of the NIC was given fairly heavy weight in this fingerprint; I don't know what the current algorithm (in Windows 7) is.
Does that hold true too with a VMware image? If I installed an OS on a vm, made a backup and then decided to use that same image across 50-100 other workstations... How does product activation come in if it's already been activated?
Ryu Connor wrote:If you're having to clone PCs for work and need to be changing the SID you shouldn't be looking to Ghost. What they're talking about with VMWare also isn't a solution.
Passion wrote:Hi guys, I don't quite understand about this cloning software? can someone please tell me more?
axeman wrote:The necessity of changing the SID is a pervasive myth in Microsoft land, so much so that Russonovich retired his NewSID tool for being pointless. Unless you're cloning a DC, it really doesn't matter. There are much better reasons to sysprep an image.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinov ... 91024.aspx
Turkina wrote:axeman wrote:The necessity of changing the SID is a pervasive myth in Microsoft land, so much so that Russonovich retired his NewSID tool for being pointless. Unless you're cloning a DC, it really doesn't matter. There are much better reasons to sysprep an image.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinov ... 91024.aspx
That was a very useful post and link. Thanks axeman.
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