Export and Import of local user and group accounts

[Walter]

I need to export all local user and group accounts to a
file and reimport it on another Windows 2003 Server
machine. How can this be done (note, no AD involved, just
local users)

[Rebecca Chen [MSFT]]

Hello,

Do you mean you want to migrate the local user and group accounts to
another workstation?

There is a third-party tool called Member Server Migrator (MSVR-Migrator):

http://www.winzero.ca/MSVR-Migrator.htm

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Hope it helps. Thanks!

Best regards,

Rebecca Chen

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[Jetro]

addusers.exe from RK can do the trick.

[Rebecca Chen [MSFT]]

Hi Jetro,

Yes, addusers.exe can import/export the account. Please know that this
command does not save the account's passwords or any security information
for the accounts.

More details can be found from the link below:

AddUsers Automates Creation of a Large Number of Users
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;199878

Walter, you can choose the tool fits your enviornment. :)

[Walter]

But I need to migrate the passwords too.

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[Walter]

Thank you for that info. But that tool is too expensive
for me.

I just want to copy a couple of users with their
passwords and group memberships to a different server.
This is a realtively easy task on Unix (just copy the
passwd file over), but it seems impossible on Windows :-(

Walter

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[Rebecca Chen [MSFT]]

Yes, that is why I suggest you use "Member Server Migrator (MSVR-Migrator)"
since there is not built-in tool to achieve this goal. Most tools to
migrate the domain user account instead of memeber server.