create new users - automated.

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Rob

What's the quickest way I can create about 150 users
without having to do "add new user" manually (and save me
a lot of typing!)

I have an old server that has 150+ users, and I want every
user on it to have an account on my new server. The old
server is in a different domain from the new one.

So, machine-X has 150 users and I want to re-create all of
those accounts on machine-Y (different domain names too).

Best method? Thanks! They'll all get e-mail accounts too,
but perhaps that's a different question.

-rob
aka "the z guy"
 
thanks, I'll look at that.
I've used that in the past to move users from nt4 to
2000...guess I forgot it had other uses.

-regards,
rmz
 
Rob

ldifde would be a possible tool ( one that I use all the time ). You could
simply run ldifde on your 'old' domain ( assuming that it is WIN2000....it
will not work on WINNT 4.0 ) and use the appropriate -l filter to have a
nice list of the 150 user account objects with a good chunk of the
attributes that you might want already in the .ldf file and then simply
change the DC=xxx,DC=com part of the old file to the correct values in the
new file and then import the new file in your 'new' domain. You could then
use admodify ( know that version 1.6 has been out for about one month now )
to go in behind that and 'fix' anything that was not correct ( meaning:
missing on some user account objects ).

One of the limitations with ldifde is that you can not easily bring over the
passwords. This could present a problem in some environments.

As Laura suggested, ADMT might be another tool that could do this.

HTH,

Cary
 
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