I was working with a customer cloning XenApp servers running under XenServer.  We were using XenAppPrep to prepare the images for cloning, then using Newsid to change the SID and the server name.

Newsid was crashing about halfway through the process when it got to the registry key for “IMA”.  The process would simply disappear with a DR Watson in the event log. After some quick googling i came across some links that spoke of the issue on 64 bit windows but not on 32 bit.

I did some additional research on Citrix and came up with the following article

This article made perfect sense.

We ran at from the command prompt to launch newsid and it ran successfully.  I have never run across this with Newsid before so I am curious why this happened. Hopefully it saves someone else some time.

I’ve talked in some pre-sales meetings about StorageLink but haven’t really been able to talk about which features work from which SAN vendor.  Citrix has posted an HCL describing just that here.