LDIFDE Imports: Is it really this hard?

[Tedro2000]

I have been all over the Kb, Google and so on...
I have succesfully imported OUs, groups and users from our
production AD 2003 to our test/pilot forest/domain. Now I
would like to add some attributes, groups and other
information to the user objects.
I get anything from "will not perform" to "syntax error"
on the objects I am testing with.
I have also tried to enable the accounts without joy. This
may have to do with not being able to assign passwords to
the accounts, but I think it's really something I'm
missing.
Q296656 suggests this format:
dn: CN=Jane Doe,OU=Staff,DC=microsoft,DC=com
changetype: modify
replace: extensionAttribute1
extensionAttribute1: Staff
-
I have tried this, but with little success. It seems most
of the attributes have no idea what this means, and
nothing yet has discussed adding group membership to a
user (this may have to go through the group object, but I
can't see how).

Help if you can. Thanks

Ted

I better source than MS Knowledgebase would be really cool.

Ted

 

[Paul Bergson {MCT, MCSE}]

Look at this -
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/scriptcenter/default.mspx
In particular -
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/scriptcenter/user/default.mspx

Paul Bergson MCT, MCSE, CNE, CNA, CCA

 

[Tedro2000]

Thanks for your response.

I did see this information, and it may work, but I have
7,500 users to manage for a pilot for a specific
application (Novell Identity Manager, feel my pain).

I will continue to try to reformat the exports I have to
make them work with this script.

I was really hoping I could do this with LDIFDE, since I
can format for it much more quickly.

Cheers

Ted

 

[Eric Fleischman [MSFT]]

What would be helpful would be an ldif dump of the object you are trying to
modify and then a separate piece with the change you are trying to hit the
first object with, as well as the error you get. With that I can probably
tell you why your change is failing.

Sorry you've had trouble. If you post the object you're trying to modify and
the change that is failing I can help ya out no problem.

~Eric

 

[Kasper Kari]

On Sun, 2 May 2004 16:47:04 -0700, "Tedro2000"

Snip

I better source than MS Knowledgebase would be really cool.

Ted

I found this to be really helpfull:
http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBJ/tip4700/rh4795.htm

/Kasper