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Re: MS AD to Novell eDirectory migration ?

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Thorsten Kampe

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Nov 17, 2009, 7:38:57 AM11/17/09
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* needee (Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:36:03 GMT)
> is there any migration tool available that migrates MS AD 2003
> objects(ou, users, groups, computers, printers) to Novell eDirectory ?

IDM. Not really a migration but a synchronization tool but it'll work
for you.

Thorsten

Akos Szechy

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Nov 17, 2009, 7:46:12 AM11/17/09
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Just a side note: IDM is not going to decrypt the passwords for you from
AD. The users has to change their password at least once in AD to get it
sync to eDir as far as I remember.

But otherwise - this is the best way to do it :)

Cheers, akos

Craig Wilson

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Nov 17, 2009, 8:14:53 AM11/17/09
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And to ease this, you can script the AD Passwords to Expire after IDM is up
and running so encourage the users to change their password ahead of their
default change.

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David Gersic

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Nov 17, 2009, 4:29:42 PM11/17/09
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On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:36:03 +0000, needee wrote:

> is there any migration tool available that migrates MS AD 2003
> objects(ou, users, groups, computers, printers) to Novell eDirectory ?

IDM can help you with OUs, Users, and Groups. Computers and Printers are
an entirely different problem. The equivalent functionality to management
of Computers is Zenworks. Printers you'll need to re-install via iPrint.


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David Gersic

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Nov 18, 2009, 11:29:29 AM11/18/09
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On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:46:02 +0000, needee wrote:

> so, I need IDM, to import/sync MS AD objects in eDir
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> and after IDM is up and running, the MS AD user has to change his/her
> password, then the same password will be available in eDirectory too.

Yes. You might start with Aaron's intro:

http://www.novell.com/communities/node/1450/active-directory-driver-basics


and quick setup guide here:

http://www.novell.com/communities/node/1799/quick-setup-edirectory-and-ad-
synch-idm

David Gersic

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Nov 21, 2009, 12:38:58 AM11/21/09
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On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:06:02 +0000, cperilli wrote:

> Could you just create an LDIF from AD and import into eDir?

You can, sort of, but the intermediate massaging of the LDIF file can be
a lot of work.

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