RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task.....

2005-10-21 Thread Al Mulnick
curious mostly. From: Smith, Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task. Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:16:59 +0100 All, Just thought a quick update might save a bit of pain for those of you

RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task.....

2005-10-21 Thread Smith, Brad
and how beneficial/satisfying having a comma there is. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Mulnick Sent: 21 October 2005 14:40 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task. Last I checked, it's

RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task.....

2005-10-21 Thread joe
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Mulnick Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 9:40 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task. Last I checked, it's not a bad practice to use commas. It's a bit more work

RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task.....

2005-10-21 Thread Al Mulnick
changing the CNs like that. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Mulnick Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 9:40 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task. Last I checked, it's

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2005-10-21 Thread joe
=define%3A+sarcasm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Mulnick Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 11:20 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task. I'm sure you're not indicating that you believe I am

RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task.....

2005-10-21 Thread Al Mulnick
, 2005 6:12 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task. Not picking on you Al. However, Exchange people in general are GUI junkies. That is how they were born and bred by MS, it is not entirely the fault of the admin. And if they were command line

RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task.....

2005-10-21 Thread Al Mulnick
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task. There is bound to be a way round, possibly to escape the character in question, in this case, the evil comma. I say it is bad practise but really I mean it isn't something I would want as opposed to the problems it can

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2005-10-20 Thread Smith, Brad
:40 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task. Yes, Microsoft has attempted it. Check out the scripts directory under the GPMC install. It has two scripts: CreateXMLFromEnvironment.wsf and CreateEnvironmentFromXML.wsf That do pretty much everything

RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task.....

2005-10-12 Thread Smith, Brad
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Mulnick Sent: 11 October 2005 16:29 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task. To automate the import of the .ldf files you need to shell to a command prompt and run the ldif import commands appropriate for what you want

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2005-10-12 Thread Smith, Brad
I guess it could restore the groups first, then configure the memberships -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Mulnick Sent: 11 October 2005 16:29 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task

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2005-10-12 Thread Smith, Brad
@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task. Yes, Microsoft has attempted it. Check out the scripts directory under the GPMC install. It has two scripts: CreateXMLFromEnvironment.wsf and CreateEnvironmentFromXML.wsf That do pretty much everything that you've described

RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task.....

2005-10-11 Thread Smith, Brad
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Crowley [MVP] Sent: 10 October 2005 23:45 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task. I've written that, and it's actually rather straightforward if you're

RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task.....

2005-10-11 Thread Al Mulnick
MIIS (or similar) would be much easier for incremental changes. Al -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Smith, Brad Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 4:28 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task

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2005-10-11 Thread Jensen, Ken
be the happiest man on earth... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Smith, Brad Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 1:28 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task. Thanks all for the replies Darren- I

RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task.....

2005-10-11 Thread Al Mulnick
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jensen, Ken Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:39 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task. There must be a scriptable way of automating the import of .ldf files as well. We

RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task.....

2005-10-10 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Yes, Microsoft has attempted it. Check out the scripts directory under the GPMC install. It has two scripts: CreateXMLFromEnvironment.wsf and CreateEnvironmentFromXML.wsf That do pretty much everything that you've described below. Darren -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task.....

2005-10-10 Thread Al Mulnick
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

Re: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task.....

2005-10-10 Thread Kamlesh Parmar
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RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task.....

2005-10-10 Thread Ed Crowley [MVP]
I've written that, and it's actually rather straightforward if you're willing to tackle VBScript and ADSI. Another option you might consider is Microsoft Virtual Server or VMware, where you can build a VM with your environment, save it as a golden master, and use it as the base when you need to