You can use ldifde for this purpose... see MS site for all the syntax and examples. It's very simple to do and will get you users, OUs, etc.
Another way is to bring another DC into your production domain, DCPROMO it, remove it from the domain and then seize all the FSMO roles using NTDSUTIL. You will of course then need to clean the removed server object from your domain via NTDSUTIL. This way you get all the domain info easily. Or as you say... do a backup and restore. The other DC should be the same hardware or you will have all sorts of driver/compat' issues. BR Rob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruyere, Michel Sent: 02 November 2004 13:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] User export/import Hi, I would like to know what would be the best way to export and reimport users and group from a DC to another. The source DC is the one that is in our LAN and the second one is in a test lab. They both must have the same accounts and groups but, they are not connected in any way and the configuration differ from one to the other (ip range is not the same). IIRC I saw a VBS script that could export users and groups in a file then allow the reimport process... but this is a long time ago, so I may not recall correctly. So what you guys would do to achieve this goal? BTW, I tried to backup the system state and restore it to the other DC, but the DC froze after the reboot... I don't know if this could be caused because of the configuration diff. Thanks! M.Bruyere 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/ ======================================================================= Scanned for virus infection by Messagelabs ======================================================================= 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/
