ADMT - "Object Property Exclusion" only shows for Computers

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Greetings,

I am migrating user accounts intra-forest and I wish to _not_ migrate the
description field for user accounts. Even though ADMT describes the
"Object Property Exclusion" page when I do a user migration it just skips
it and goes right to the last screen, it only shows up when doing a computer
migration. This means I have no choice but to migrate user descriptions
that are no longer accurate and go back and clean them up afterwards.
According to ADMT the feature is available for users & groups as well as
computers. What gives?

 

[Jorge de Almeida Pinto [MVP - DS]]

I would need to test it to get some details...

Another idea is to clear the field AFTER the migration using an LDAP
tool....

for example using ADFIND and ADMOD

ADFIND -b "<DN of starting OU>" -f
"(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(whenCreated>=YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.0Z)(description=*))"
-dsq | | admod "description:-:" -unsafe

this will clear the description of all user account in and below the OU "<DN
of starting OU>" created after "YYYYMMDDHHMMSS" if there is a description.


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Cheers,
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# Jorge de Almeida Pinto # MVP Windows Server - Directory Services

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