Exporting users, groups etc and then recreating them in a new environment is
not terribly difficult. Getting the security settings and the GPO
information recreated is a bit more difficult. This is not an export and
copy, it's an export and create new that looks like the old situation if you
do it that way.
What do you have to work with? Is it too much to recreate the environments
by overlaying the production, cleaning up the metadata and letting it loose?
Or do you have workstations and servers in the environment to be concerned
about?
Al
----- Original Message -----
From: "Smith, Brad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org>
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 11:07 AM
Subject: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task.....
All,
I am pondering the possibility of automating the creation of development
environments. The problem I am hoping to solve is that a lot of our
testing
needs to be done in an environment where all our Ous, GPOs, Groups and so
forth are present. Recreating this is a nightmare, so to alleviate this
I
want to write an import/export script that dumps all the OU's, Groups,
Users
and GPO's (including security) and then restores them in a different
target
domain (different forest too). Has anyone attempted/achieved this before?
Brad
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