Just for those able to speak German (all others can you babblefish ;). Nils Kaczenski wrote some nice tools to get around most of the problems of exporting and importing AD information with CSVDE.EXE, ie an Excel Makro that adds the "" around DNs (they get lost while importing the CSV-File in Excel). In short he wrote: - Excel CSV-Addin - Carlos - a configurationmask for CSVDE - José - Create HTML based reports of your AD - Carmen - Request data from AD based on SQL commands With all my respects Have fun Oliver
http://www.kaczenski.de/component/option,com_docman/Itemid,41/task,view_ category/catid,89/order,dmdate_published/ascdesc,DESC/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Danny Sent: Freitag, 22. April 2005 20:32 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Export and import essential AD objects for new forest Thank you all for your most helpful responses! You guys are fantastic. Specifically: Jose Medeiros, Ken Jensen, and Ken Cornentet. Due to time constraints, I think I am going to go with the swing method, so here is my proposed plan of attack: Temp Server/ Server B: 1) Install Windows Server 2003 Standard 2) dcpromo as DC for existing domain 3) Make server as GC 4) Install Exchange Server 2003 Standard - use the same exact same naming convention as production (Server A) server? 5) Migrate mailboxes from production server (Server A) to Server B -- would I simply use the move mailbox function in ESM? 6) Move FSMO Roles from Server A to Server B 7) Verify DNS and WINS Configuration Production Server/Server A: 1) dcpromo original server down -- Ken Cornetet can you please elaborate on this one? 2) Wipe OS clean from Server A, and clean install Windows Server 2003 -- is this safe to do now Ken? 3) dcpromo as DC for existing domain 4) Make server as GC 5) Install Exchange Server 2003 Standard - use the same exact same naming convention as the original production server? 6) Migrate mailboxes from temp server (Server B) to Server A -- would I simply use the move mailbox function in ESM again? 7) Move FSM Roles from Server B to Server A 8) Verify DNS and WINS Configuration 9) Install SP1 for Exchange 10) Install SP1 for Windows 11) Install AV Software and other misc. software 12) Decide what I want to do with Server B. 13) Now everything should work if Server B was powered down for example -- correct? Does this make sense? Hopefully you can move Exchange mailboxes from Enterprise to Standard through the ESM. Thank you! ...D List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
