Appendix: How to Determine DNSAdmins Account SID
The following example script reports the SID of the DNSAdmins account:
Start the script from the command prompt by typing cscript DNSAdminsGroupSID.vbs
' DNSAdminsGroupSID.vbs
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' Usage: cscript DNSAdminsGroupSID.vbs
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' This sample script enumerates all groups using WMI and returns the SID of the DNSAdmins group of the local Security Accounts Manager (SAM) and the domain
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' (C) 2008 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved
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Dim objWMIService, colAccounts, objAccount
SetLocale("en-us")
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2")
Set colAccounts = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * From Win32_Group Where Description = 'DNS Administrators Group'")
For Each objAccount in colAccounts
wScript.echo objAccount.Caption & " = " & objAccount.SID
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