Knowing the SID of hardware
Hi, According to my experience, each NIC will have a MAC address. I haven't ever hear that physical disk have MAC address. Each type of device will have a device class guid. We could find out all properties of each device by using Device Manager. Best Regards, Yan Li Yan Li TechNet Community Support
December 16th, 2011 6:38am

How can i know the SID (security identifier) of a certain hardware (raid controller/disk) i have ? Is this it ? Identifier in regedit thanks !
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December 25th, 2011 11:22am

i tink you want the device id or some other id....this is not a SID. Use device manager and check the properties of the device, then select the details tab. From there you can use the drop down to view all kinds of information.
December 25th, 2011 11:29am

Hello, There is no SID for hardware components. AD objects (User accounts, computer accounts ...) are identified by SIDs (Combinaison of domain SID + RID). For informations about your hardware components, you can run msinfo32 command to get hardware description details. The other solution is to proceed like Gunner999 already suggested. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights. Microsoft Student Partner 2010 / 2011 Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator: Security Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Security Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuration Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure, Configuration Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows 7, Configuring Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Designing and Providing Volume Licensing Solutions to Large Organizations Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Enterprise Administrator Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Server Administrator Microsoft Certified Trainer
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December 25th, 2011 11:42am

Does physical disk has something like MAC address ? that defines each disk from another (1 of a kind in the world ID..) ?
December 25th, 2011 11:45am

This various by what layer you want the information at. Physical or logical layers like the partition or the volume. Logical ids http://networkadminkb.com/KB/a472/how-to-view-and-change-the-volume-serial-number-in-windows.aspx http://networkadminkb.com/KB/a471/how-to-view-and-change-the-disk-id-in-windows-2008.aspx Physical ids will vary by vendor Device Instance ID SCSI ids will vary by configuration and will be in the format Target:ID:LUN
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December 25th, 2011 12:07pm

Hi, According to my experience, each NIC will have a MAC address. I haven't ever hear that physical disk have MAC address. Each type of device will have a device class guid. We could find out all properties of each device by using Device Manager. Best Regards, Yan Li Yan Li TechNet Community Support
December 25th, 2011 10:40pm

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