My Veeam Backup Server refuses to push a client to physical PC because of a "duplicate BIOS UUID" in the client table. "Inconceivable!," says I; "A UUID is Universally Unique!" Apparently not. It ...

File systems and UUIDs have a special relationship on Linux systems. What are these very long identifiers and how can you view the connections between them and disk partitions? The /etc/fstab file is ...

Most Apple owners are familiar with the UDID, aka serial number, for their iOS device, but did you know that your Mac has a similar hardware UUID too? In this post, I will show you where to find it, ...

There are a variety of reasons why developers use globally unique identifiers (GUIDs), such as assigning unique identifiers to classes or when dealing with databases. This tip contains sample code ...

I'm programming in C/C++. I'm trying to communicate with a USB device using the SetupDi* functions from the Windows Driver Kit. To start, I need to create a GUID struct that I pass to ...