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Export Windows 2003 User Account's into test enviroment

Here is my question. I have a ESX 3.5 AD test enviroment. I'm doing the best that I can to clone my current Windows 2000 AD structure into my test enviroment. i just need to create the base structure. Is ther anyway for me to export Windows 2000 users accounts including there SID, groups etc... into my test enviroment.... Please help

theoaks

Active Directory Migration Tool from microsoft.

thatd be the best tool (thats free) for the migration.. and ive used a few (though never on a 2000 domain)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6f86937b-533a-466d-a8e8-aff85ad3d212&displaylang=en

try that..

theoaks

my bad .. that one was for 2003

try this for 2000

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=788975b1-5849-4707-9817-8c9773c25c6c&displaylang=en

compdigit44

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Here is the problem though my ESX 3.5 test enviroment DO NOT have any network access to my production AD network

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compdigit44

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Unfortunalte I wil not be able to do a P2V..

Do you think in my test enviroment if I give the test DC the same sID as my production DC then import all of the computer account's this would work??

In other words would I be able to take a VM from my production information and place it in my semi-cloned test enviroment and get things to work?

compdigit44

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I was able to export all of the information from my production AD enviroment now when I try to import the CSV file. I get the following message: "The specified instance type is invalid"

the comand I'm using is: csvde -i -f file.csv