You've probably seen SID numbers on your Windows 2000 server and assumed that the numbers are random. They're not. Each SID has meaning, and here you can find out what that meaning is. As an ...

Microsoft issued a warning yesterday stating that removing Windows account security identifiers (SIDS) that do not have a "friendly" name from security permissions could cause problems in Windows and ...

In our ongoing quest to clean up our file shares (because we know some day Microsoft will pull the rug from them), today we're going to look at the opportunity that security identifiers (SID) offer.

• Brien encountered a permissions problem with Hyper-V virtual hard disks when moving them between virtual machines. The issue arose when attempting to attach a previously existing virtual hard disk ...

Because SQL Server manages security identifiers (SIDs) for any user logging into SQL Server, you risk "orphaning" users when you do a restore. It's a common problem, and here's why. Typically, ...