Replacement for NewSID when working with Windows 7?

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Published on 2009-09-27T22:58:14Z Indexed on 2010/04/07 13:03 UTC
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Has anyone got a lead on a replacement for the old SysInternals NewSID utility that will work for Windows 7?

I found out the hard way that NewSID will totally hose a Win7 setup (BSOD on reboot). Apparently the same problem occurs for Server 2008 R2. They've officially announced that NewSID will be retired in November, possibly because of this issue.

I'm aware of SYSPREP, but it's not a clean replacement in my case so I was hoping that there was another utility similar to NewSID that worked with Win7. Reworking our system to use SYSPREP will be ugly and slower as well. Any thoughts on another alternative?

Thanks!

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