Creating a Test AD enviroment 1

[acroniscronie]

I'm in the process of creating an AD that will be used on a test basis to provide the equivalent functions of an existing live environment.

The main purpose of what I'm trying to do is to duplicate the structures of the AD. A colleague has attempted a simple capture of the Live AD using the command line utilities CSVDE and LDIFDE (Switches unknown).

I'm getting errors when I attempt to import the files that were previously captured.

The errors would indicate that the files have brought across some inappropriate attributes associated with the original AD.

The error message I'm getting via the CSVDE utilty is :-

"Error reading attribute list.
0 entries modified successfully
An error has occurred in the program"

The error encountered on the LDIFDE utility was :-

Add error on Line 1
"Unwilling to perform.
The server side error is
The specified instance type is not valid"

My suspicion is that the actual syntax used by a colleague during the capture of the AD data is suspect but can't confirm this as I'm not at the site in question.

Can anyone assist?

 

[PScottC]

Use the -m and -n switches to get rid of most of the problem attributes. Also, to import group memberships, you have to either build the groups first (with no membership) or create the users with no memberships and separately import the groups with memberships. Either way it's a 2 stage process.

PSC

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