How to retrieve domain computer's sid

Asked Dec 03 '15 at 17:20

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I'm trying to retrieve the domain sid for the local machine (not the machine sid). I need to be able to retrieve it without incurring network traffic to the AD server.

I found these links:

http://microsoft.public.platformsdk.security.narkive.com/y8UW72ww/how-to-get-the-domain-sid-of-the-domain-the-computer-belongs-to

How can I retrieve a Windows Computer's SID using WMI?

And tried to GetComputerName followed by using IADsNameTranslate to convert to a sid, but when setting the name to translate I get error: 0x80072116 "Could not find the name or insufficient right to see name".

Can you point me in the right direction?

edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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asked Dec 03 '15 at 17:20

Scott Langham

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have you tested `get-sid "CLIENT$"` as explained in [this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/3135006/1300910)? – huysentruitw Dec 03 '15 at 19:39
@WouterHuysentruit Yes, that works, but how do you achieve the same when using the Win32 api from C++? – Scott Langham Dec 03 '15 at 20:13
Why not just execute the PS function? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/478898/how-to-execute-a-command-and-get-output-of-command-within-c – huysentruitw Dec 03 '15 at 20:17
You can use WMI from C++. (I don't know how, but I know that you can. There are probably existing questions.) – Harry Johnston Dec 03 '15 at 22:39

How to retrieve domain computer's sid

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