> Microsoft has stated that their direction is to move toward LDIF formats rather than CSV formats.
Anything you can point at to substantiate this comment? > For this reason, LDIFDE has more functionality than CSVDE. What specifically? I agree that people should be familiar with the LDIF format but if the goal is to get the data into a format to be imported into some other database or run some basic scripts across it CSV is far more friendly for those purposes. joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rachui, Scott Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 12:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Exporting Workstation Information One point about using CSVDE is that Microsoft has stated that their direction is to move toward LDIF formats rather than CSV formats. This is because LDIF is the standard for directories, and they're trying to be in compliance with the larger directory community of which Active Directory is now a part. For this reason, LDIFDE has more functionality than CSVDE. I would highly encourage anyone to become familiar with the LDIF format, and the LDIFDE tool specifically. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rutherford, Robert Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 6:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Exporting Workstation Information Csvde does though... Rob -----Original Message----- From: Sean Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 July 2004 12:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Exporting Workstation Information I would reccomend using the ldifde utility. It doesn't put the data into CSV, but it is in a text file format, and quite easy to parse. You might also want to look at this link: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft. com:80/support/kb/articles/Q237/6/77.ASP&NoWebContent=1 List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
