TranGUID.exe Does Not Work On Native Mode Clients
On my previous post I suggested the use of a collection and TranGUID.exe to clean up from the SMS database clients with duplicate GUIDs. Unfortunately tranguid.exe from the SMS 2003 Toolkit, does not generate a new GUID on SCCM clients running in Native mode. The tool does work on SCCM clients running in Mixed mode. At the time of this writing, there is no tool for SCCM that will force a Native mode client to get a new GUID. The best workaround to generate a new GUID on a Native mode client is to:
1. Delete the ...\%windir%\smscfg.ini file from the client.
2. Delete the client from SCCM.
3. Delete the SCCM certificate from the client.
4. Re-start the SMS Agent Host service on the client.
The above steps will force the generation of a new GUID on SCCM clients running in Native mode.
