ActiveDirectory machine accounts: same SID after machine rebuild?

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Published on 2010-05-20T21:33:17Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 21:40 UTC
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When a new Windows server machine joins a domain, AD seems to create a machine account "DOMAIN\MACHINENAME$" for that machine with a SID.

If the machine gets reimaged (with another OS, here: W2K8 instead of W2K3) and then rejoins the domin, will AD re-use the existing domain account with the same SID?

(Reason I'm asking is that we use some machine accounts as logins in SQL2008 databases..)

Thanks Max

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