SimpleSync might be able to do it. I've never used it, but have a few
friends who do quite a bit with it.
http://www.cps-systems.com/

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Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity
Atlanta, GA


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Grafton [mailto:orangerover@;hotmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 8:39 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [ActiveDir] AD user sync to flat file
> 
> 
> This is one of those "does anyone know a product which can do 
> this...?"
> questions.  Apologies.
> 
> Have an Active Directory (single domain) with about 65,000 users.
> 
> Have a personnel system which produces a flat file consisting 
> of [only]
> usernames.
> 
> Once a week, our customer wants to run a utility which will 
> perform a very
> simple "synchronisation" of the users in the Active Directory 
> with those
> listed in the flat file.
> 
> The rules...
> If the user is in the flat file and the directory, do nothing.
> If the user is in the flat file but not the directory, create 
> it in the
> directory [in a default location].
> If the user is in the directory, but not the flat file, 
> delete it from the
> directory.
> 
> My immediate response is that you should do this with a 
> script of some sort,
> but I was wondering if anyone has located a product can do such simple
> things?  If its relatively inexpensive, then its not worth spending
> programming hours on reinventing the wheel.
> 
> I had a look at NetIQ, Fastlane and iPlanet's offerings, but 
> they are all
> far too heavyweight to even consider.
> 
> Don't ask why the flat file...  The personnel system is not 
> connected to
> anything and the data travels by CD and sneaker-net.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andy
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