I have a difficult to work with VM admin who after some time I found there were corruption issues. This corruption caused the replication between two VMs to stop working. It was out of my hands. It's a long story, but I have been running with a single server for 334 clients and 2500 users. It has been working well considering. The VM is now fine and I want to get back to 2 and eventually 3 server replicating. I have backed up and cleaned up the GPO objects. I have attempted to use CSVDE and/or LDIFDE to backup Active directory which is about 18 files as CSV of LDF. I imaged the system and verified DSRM was accessible. I had two more system built on thr VM and have been practicing export and import using CSVDE and LDIFDE. All exports look good, but NONE will ever import. Essentially i build a test OU with a computer, a user and a group and simple export it.
OU=TestCSVDE
group=MyGroup
user=GeorgeW
computer=MyPuter
csvde -d "OU=TestCSVDE,DC=MXXX,DC=com" -f testCSVDE.csv
I delete the new test OU and it's contents and attempt to import the above file via CSVDE to learn the process:
csvde -i -s TestServer -f TestCSVDE.csv
and I get this error:
C:\Windows\system32>csvde -i -f TestCSVDE.csv
Connecting to "(null)"
Logging in as current user using SSPI
Importing directory from file "TestCSVDE.csv"
Loading entries.
Add error on line 2: Unwilling To Perform
The server side error is "The modification was not permitted for security reason
s."
0 entries modified successfully.
An error has occurred in the program
No log files were written. In order to generate a log file, please
specify the log file path via the -j option.
In the CSV file:
Line 1 is labels (not seeing issues here)
Line 2 is the OU itself which has blank cells after column Q <-- hmmmm
Lines 3 - 5 are the computer, user and group which never get read due to line 2.
Would appreciate some wisdom. I have done a lot of reading some which contradicts itself.