When an operating system is imaged and deployed on another machine, will both the systems have same UUID's?
I've read that UUID is set by motherboard vendor and will change when the BIOS settings get changed.
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When an operating system is imaged and deployed on another machine, will both the systems have same UUID's?
I've read that UUID is set by motherboard vendor and will change when the BIOS settings get changed.
Best Answer
It should be pretty easy to just clone a machine and check the UUID using the methods in this article:
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Deploying-Windows-7-Part18.html
Win32_ComputerSystemProduct class:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394105.aspx