Changing SID using Sysprep without starting from scratch

Long story short, we have a vmware environment with several vm's set up by an outside vendor. The vm's were set up and put into production just in a workgroup. A domain was set up on another physical server but never implimented. Had to
work on several projects before getting to finish the new domain setup. Created a new vm to be used as the new domain controller. Tried adding a file server to the domain and had issues. Discovered sysprep was never run on any of the vm's
and being new to the virtual side of things didn't realize it wasn't done and needed to be run on my cloned machines.
My question, is there a way to reset the SID's without losing anything on our servers using sysprep? Or is there another option out there for our network? All of our servers are running Server 2008 R2. There are a few SQL servers.
I dont want to continue leaving everything in a workgroup, but some of the servers we have would require several vendors to have to do a complete reinstall of everything if we had to start fresh again. I tried searching google but could not find anything
useful.

There used to be a tool called NEW SID which you could run by systernals but this has been discontinued and is no longer required.
If you are using VMWare then I guess you are using virtual centre too? If so you should follow the VM Guides to configure your templates to automatically run sysprep when you provision a new machines.
However, if your machines are currently joined to a workgroup and you want to join them to a domain, then you should be okay. The domain will create it's own identifier on the machine when it is joined.
Some applications are still a little funny if sysprep hasn't been ran correctly, but most things will work 'ok'.
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