Flat file - Think text file with a long list of users separated by hard returns in the document. Something you could create with Notepad.
Clyde -----Original Message----- From: Mark Jeremy [mailto:mjeremy@;itsphoenix.com] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 8:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD user sync to flat file I hate to ask but what is a flat file? --Mark -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@;mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Andy Grafton Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 8:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] AD user sync to flat file This is one of those "does anyone know a product which can do this...?" questions. Apologies. Have an Active Directory (single domain) with about 65,000 users. Have a personnel system which produces a flat file consisting of [only] usernames. Once a week, our customer wants to run a utility which will perform a very simple "synchronisation" of the users in the Active Directory with those listed in the flat file. The rules... If the user is in the flat file and the directory, do nothing. If the user is in the flat file but not the directory, create it in the directory [in a default location]. If the user is in the directory, but not the flat file, delete it from the directory. My immediate response is that you should do this with a script of some sort, but I was wondering if anyone has located a product can do such simple things? If its relatively inexpensive, then its not worth spending programming hours on reinventing the wheel. I had a look at NetIQ, Fastlane and iPlanet's offerings, but they are all far too heavyweight to even consider. Don't ask why the flat file... The personnel system is not connected to anything and the data travels by CD and sneaker-net. Thanks, Andy List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
