Last I checked, it's not a bad practice to use commas. It's a bit more work
to use the names if you have to escape the commas, but it's not a best
practice. In fact, in a displayname, I do want to use commas, but I think
you meant in the CN you wouldn't want a comma. I frequently do want them,
but mostly because I've always worked with Exchange and the upgrade from 5.5
will often cause that. It's valid, it's not against any best practices, but
it can be a pain to work with.
You found a workaround, but I wonder if there's another way to handle the
special characters?
Just curious mostly.
From: "Smith, Brad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task.....
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:16:59 +0100
All, Just thought a quick update might save a bit of pain for those of you
that ever want to use the CreateXMLFromEnvironment.wsf and
CreateEnvironmentFromXML.wsf scripts from GPMC. I found a snag where
CreateEnvironmentFromXML.wsf can't import user accounts where the name
contains a comma (and probably othe special characters). I know it is bad
practice to use these in display names, but it is supported by dsa.msc and
so inevitably has been used. There are a few ways around this, I got past
it by changing line 596 from
szName = User.Get("name");
To
szName = User.Get("samAccountName");
This could be done a lot smarter I know, but for a quick fix this works and
is all I need for now.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Smith, Brad
Sent: 12 October 2005 13:16
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task.....
The script Darren pointed out seem to be working just fine, now I need to
configure a decent migtable ;-)
Thanks again for the heads up Darren.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
Sent: 10 October 2005 17:40
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task.....
Yes, Microsoft has attempted it. Check out the scripts directory under the
GPMC install. It has two scripts:
CreateXMLFromEnvironment.wsf and
CreateEnvironmentFromXML.wsf
That do pretty much everything that you've described below.
Darren
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Smith, Brad
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 8:08 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ActiveDir] Interesting Scripting Task.....
All,
I am pondering the possibility of automating the creation of development
environments. The problem I am hoping to solve is that a lot of our
testing
needs to be done in an environment where all our Ous, GPOs, Groups and so
forth are present. Recreating this is a nightmare, so to alleviate this I
want to write an import/export script that dumps all the OU's, Groups,
Users
and GPO's (including security) and then restores them in a different target
domain (different forest too). Has anyone attempted/achieved this before?
Brad
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