Windows ldifde

Not only are the export switches easier, but also there is no chance of damaging your Active Directory accounts. The extra features include: detailed instructions on how to add and modify user accounts. You get a printer friendly version with copy enabled, and no expiry date. Getting started The situation is, you want to extract user accounts from Active Directory. Adding filters with -r Use the -r switch to filter your data, for example: the command to export only computer objects on a server called BigServer is: ldifde -f ExportComputer.

About The Author Guy Thomas. Related Posts. Unfortunately though it's not everything because I did a search for this one entry I know is in there and it's not in the text file.

The entry is from my configuration partition, cert services dNS. Thanks all. I do have multiple threads as my problems with this domain were complex. I called MS and paid to have them help me.

During all of my troubleshooting with help from these forums I corrected about half of them, and the other half MS helped me with. I also found out during the process that the domain was previously upgraded from When I ran that then forced a sync from my primary controller my DNS problems related to. My certificate server problem was a mixture of similar old data related to now non-existent domain controllers and the old domain. As well as some compatibily issues related to a missing group that needs and didn't have.

Yet again more examples of the old domain ncsbcs. I also had a problem with all 3 of my Exchange server when I demoted the oldest domain controller to rebuild it. The -k option of ldifde ignores a larger set of LDAP errors.

The complete list of ignored errors is as follows:. Be aware that this file is a modified version of the file generated from Lgetattcls. Furthermore, the schemaUpdateNow operational attribute is set in two places to trigger updates of the schema cache so that dependent attributes and classes will be available for adding the two classes in the script. Also be aware that the script uses a prefix to find the classes and attributes you should also define and use a prefix for all your classes and attributes.

For more information, see Naming Attributes and Classes. In addition, the script outputs only the necessary attributes for the attributeSchema and classSchema objects to the LDIF file. The password attribute used by Active Directory is "unicodePwd". This attribute can be written under restricted conditions, but cannot be read. This attribute can only be modified, not added on object creation or read by a search. The High Encryption pack must be installed on both the client and the server.

When you change the password in an application, you can use the method that is described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:. There are two ways to modify the unicodePwd attribute. The first is analogous to a typical user change-password operation. In this case, the modify request must contain both a delete operation and an add operation. The delete operation must contain the current password enclosed in quotation marks and be Base64 encoded as described in RFC The add operation must contain the new password enclosed in quotation marks and be Base64 encoded.