Let me know what you need, and I'll see how I can help you with the scripting. I have 
done a lot of those.
Say, is the flat file in CSV format?

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Grafton [mailto:orangerover@;hotmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 3:39 PM
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
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