Using LDIFDE to Export/Import configuration

Question

Hi All,
I need to create a "copy" of a domain using LDIFDE. To do that, I exported the Configuration, Schema, OUs, Users and Groups. I'm having plenty of troubles during the import, so I wanted to clarify a few things:
1) What order should the data be imported in? I was thinking importing Schema, then Configuration, then OUs, followed by Groups and finally Users
2) Is there an easy way to remove the extra spaces from the LDIFDE extract? I did a search and replace in notepad to change the domain from DC=abc,DC=com to DC=xyz,DC=com, but there are lines where the original DC is split which is a royal pain to clean
up!
3) When doing an import from Schema or Configuration, I get this error
PS C:\tmp> ldifde -i -f .\schema_export.ldf -v -j C:\tmp\
Connecting to "mydomain.xyz.com"
Logging in as current user using SSPI
Importing directory from file ".\schema_export.ldf"
Loading entries
1: CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=xyz,DC=com
Add error on entry starting on line 1: Unwilling To Perform
The server side error is: 0x2079 The specified instance type is not valid.
The extended server error is:
00002079: SvcErr: DSID-03330968, problem 5003 (WILL_NOT_PERFORM), data 0
0 entries modified successfully.
An error has occurred in the program
I can't figure out why this is happening.
Any help will be much appreciated :)

Answer 1

> I need to create a "copy" of a domain using LDIFDE. To do that, I
> exported the Configuration, Schema, OUs, Users and Groups. I'm having
> plenty of troubles during the import, so I wanted to clarify a few things:
Why would you need to import schema and configuration? And why do you
not simply join a DC to your domain, take it down and do metadata
cleanup, then start this new DC in its own environment? Much simpler
than your approach, I believe :)
> 1) What order should the data be imported in? I was thinking importing
> Schema, then Configuration, then OUs, followed by Groups and finally Users
That's what I would think, too.
> 1: CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=xyz,DC=com
> Add error on entry starting on line 1: Unwilling To Perform
"Add" for what? What's the content of this file?
Martin
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