RE: NTDSUTIL...

2012-02-08 Thread Brian Desmond
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 9:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: NTDSUTIL... On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:58 AM, David Lum wrote: > I'm guessing this utility by design is clunky? I do get that it's > powerful, but man it reminds me of EDLIN. OTOH I'm getting the h

Re: NTDSUTIL...

2012-02-08 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Andrew S. Baker wrote: >> NTDSUTIL is a low-level, raw access, powerful sort of tool. >> Generally you shouldn't be using it unless things are moderately badly >> broken already. > > Well, there are few other ways to migrate

RE: NTDSUTIL...

2012-02-08 Thread David Lum
like psexec and push stuff with SMS is what I typically do in batch. At least the NTDSUTIL process makes sense once you do use it a few times. I know just enough PowerShell to look at a PS file and largely know what it's doing and can "modify existing to fit". My mad scripting

Re: NTDSUTIL...

2012-02-08 Thread Steven Peck
that it’s > powerful, > > but man it reminds me of EDLIN. OTOH I’m getting the hang of it, but not > > sure if that’s a good thing or bad thing. > > NTDSUTIL is a low-level, raw access, powerful sort of tool. > Generally you shouldn't be using it unless things are moder

Re: NTDSUTIL...

2012-02-08 Thread Andrew S. Baker
> I’m guessing this utility by design is clunky? I do get that it’s > powerful, > > but man it reminds me of EDLIN. OTOH I’m getting the hang of it, but not > > sure if that’s a good thing or bad thing. > > NTDSUTIL is a low-level, raw access, powerful sort of tool. > Ge

Re: NTDSUTIL...

2012-02-08 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:58 AM, David Lum wrote: > I’m guessing this utility by design is clunky? I do get that it’s powerful, > but man it reminds me of EDLIN. OTOH I’m getting the hang of it, but not > sure if that’s a good thing or bad thing. NTDSUTIL is a low-level, raw access,

RE: NTDSUTIL...

2012-02-08 Thread Michael B. Smith
[mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 10:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: NTDSUTIL... I'm guessing this utility by design is clunky? I do get that it's powerful, but man it reminds me of EDLIN. OTOH I'm getting the hang of it, but not sure if that's

Re: NTDSUTIL...

2012-02-08 Thread Jonathan Link
I'm thinking you haven't embrced powershell, yet, either... On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:58 AM, David Lum wrote: > I’m guessing this utility by design is clunky? I do get that it’s > powerful, but man it reminds me of EDLIN. OTOH I’m getting the hang of it, > but not sure if that’s a good thing or

RE: NTDSUTIL...

2012-02-08 Thread Brian Desmond
.731.3132 From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 8:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: NTDSUTIL... I'm guessing this utility by design is clunky? I do get that it's powerful, but man it reminds me of EDLIN. OTOH I'm getting the hang of it,