How do I get a Unique Identifier for a Device within Windows 10 Universal?

Question

This is my old implementation to get a Unique DeviceID for Windows Universal 8.1 but the type HardwareIdentification does not exist anymore.

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Answer 1

It seems that

var deviceInformation = new EasClientDeviceInformation();
string Id = deviceInformation.Id.ToString();

is doing the magic, refering to EasClientDeviceInformation it provides a unique Id.

The Id property represents the DeviceId using the GUID truncated from the first 16 bytes of the SHA256 hash of the MachineID, User SID, and Package Family Name where the MachineID uses the SID of the local users group.

BUT it only works for Windows Store Apps... so there have to be another solution.