If you simply want:

Same users\groups
Same OU structure
Same GPO's


I highly suggest you look at GPMC (group policy mgmt console) scripts...

CreateEnvironmentFromXML.wsf
CreateXMLFromEnvironment.wsf



-steve




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Corbett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 7:59 AM
Subject: [ActiveDir] Non DR migration of AD


> All,
>
> We are in the process of constructing a Lab to mimic the production AD
> system as closely as possible.  Doing a full DR into this environment is
> certainly an option, however we have been looking into simply migrating
the
> AD "structure" and using this as a test bed to cleanup AD (OU's, objects,
> permissions, policies etc).
>
> Is anyone aware of tools or procedures to get the major AD configuration
> components into a lab using an approach that can be scripted / automated ?
> (we may want to do this every few months or so). For example, we have used
> LDIFDE to extract the OU structure, users and groups and re-imported these
> into the test lab.  By and large this has worked very well (took some
> tweaking of the LDIFDE commands to resolve some constraint violations
etc),
> however items such as OU security and policies is causing a bit more of a
> headache.
>
> Any thoughts ?
>
> TIA
>
> Glenn
>
>
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