CSDE exported directory, but "unwilling to perform" error on import

[Pat Coghlan]

After reading some of the articles in this NG re: exporting/importing
ADs, I tried using CSDVE on one of our DCs.

While the export worked without a hitch, running CSDVE -f <filename> -i
resulted in an "unwilling to perform" message along with "Attribute
owned by Server Account Manager".

What's the hiccup here? I simply trying to re-import the AD I just
exported on the same server.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Matthew Rimer [MSFT]]

A number of the attributes stored in Active Directory are owned by the
system, and so you cannot write to them. If you want to be able to reimport
the file, you should specify the "-m" option when you perform the export.
This will exclude the system-only attributes from the exported file.

Thanks,
Matthew Rimer [MSFT]

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Pat,

What Matthew told you is dead on. You might want to use the -m switch when
doing something like this. Now, what I also do is to use the -l switch and
then specifically include the attributes that I want to be in the .ldf file
( I like to use ldifde, not sure if you can do this with csvde ).

HTH,

Cary

 

[Pat Coghlan]

Musta missed the -m option in the help files.

Thanks for the info. I'm driving a couple of hundred miles to move one
of our systems to new servers on Tuesday so this will come in very handy.