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<blockquote data-quote="TX GOAT" data-source="post: 1398594" data-attributes="member: 250141">Legitimate useHere is a legitimate use of this information.I have a large number of Mac books (couple of thousand) that were imaged using a block level copy method and have duplicated Volume UUID's on the system partition. I also have a piece of software that generates a what should be a unique machine GUID based on the UUID. Since the partition tables were copied form a master the UUID and GUID end up the same causing problems for the back end database that these clients connect to. How can I regenerate the UUID on a few thousand of these systems so the software can detect this change and generate a new GUID that will truly be unique to each client?It has to be as simple as writing a script that can be pushed out with some sort of management software. Thank you.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TX GOAT, post: 1398594, member: 250141"] [b]Legitimate use[/b] Here is a legitimate use of this information. I have a large number of Mac books (couple of thousand) that were imaged using a block level copy method and have duplicated Volume UUID's on the system partition. I also have a piece of software that generates a what should be a unique machine GUID based on the UUID. Since the partition tables were copied form a master the UUID and GUID end up the same causing problems for the back end database that these clients connect to. How can I regenerate the UUID on a few thousand of these systems so the software can detect this change and generate a new GUID that will truly be unique to each client? It has to be as simple as writing a script that can be pushed out with some sort of management software. Thank you. [/QUOTE]

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