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How do I export user data from A.D?

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by mrpjb

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I would like to know if anyone has run across documentation on how to export all users and groups from Active Directory to later import them. Does backing up the file ntds.dit take care of all that?

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by joseph moore

ADDUSERS.exe from the Resource Kit will do that.
So will LDIFDE.EXE, which I think is on the Win2K cd. This is, from what I have heard, a better way of doing it. Please read Technet article Q237677 on LDIFDE:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q237677
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There was also an article here at Techrepublic.com on LDIFDE:
https://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220020605low01.htm
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hope this helps

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