Re: refreshing AD in testlab environment

If you have two separate forests you can't magically bring across schema
changes,etc... You could run a migration tool such as ADMT, to bring across
new users but it isn't going to append information.

You could look at using csvde or ldifde to attempt to possibly assist in
some of the movement

LDIFDE
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237677

CSVDE
http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/Logon/CSVDE_LDIFDE.htm

I usually end up rebuilding my test lab every 6 months to year.

Check out; http://www.pbbergs.com select articles and click on the link for
building a test environment if that helps at all

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"Chris King" <ChrisKing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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2 yrs ago we built our testlab using a system state restore from our 6
production domain controllers. Its been working fine, but now after 2 yrs
we
want to bring the testlab up to production leve. We would like to bring
all
the schema changes, GPO's and accounts to production level. Unfortunately
the member servers/application servers are different that production and
the
service accounts we use in production are different than the testlab.

What would be your advice in order to bring only certain OU's and or
schema
changes across to our testlab?

Can you suggest a third party application that might help us to refresh AD
data in the testlab?

Thanks in advance


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