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Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint (www.windowslatest.com)
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[โ€“] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah GDID works the same in a VM as it does on hardware. It's actually easier to see in action on a VM:

  1. Create a Windows desktop VM
  2. Copy the VM
  3. Create a Window server VM and promote it to being an AD Domain in a new forest
  4. Try to join both copied VMs to the AD Domain. You can't join the second one because the GDID is the same, and you'll literally have to do a reset to get a new GDID for your VM

This was the most annoying part of messing with AD in college was running through the windows setup repeatedly because that's the only way to get more than one client VM for your virtual Windows network

[โ€“] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

Create a Window server VM and promote it to being an AD Domain in a new forest4.Try to join both copied VMs to the AD Domai

LOL I am very, very far away from knowing how to do such extremely windowsy things.