Re: Any danger in using CSVDE in export mode?

Hello Alan,

You're welcome.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
no rights.
** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm


> Thanks to all for the reassurance. Much appreciated!
>
> On Nov 16, 1:05 am, "Dave Blackshaw" <daverav...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There is little, if any, risk in doing this.
>>
>> However, bear in mind that the limited user account may not be able
>> to view all user objects, depending on the security configuration of
>> the domain/forest. It is generally good practice to hide the
>> Administrator and privileged accounts in an OU with Deny Read access
>> to normal users.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> "Alan" <bru...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:c2cc8a5a-3677-4031-bd3e-
>> m...
>>
>>> Hi Meinof,
>>>
>>> The performane part doesn't worry me because we have 5-6 domain
>>> controllers for about 4000 users.
>>>
>>> Yes, I'm worried that I could somehow damage the objects that I
>>> export or even AD itself. Is that possible using a non-admin account
>>> and exporting only?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> - Alan.
>>>
>>> On Nov 15, 8:34 pm, Meinolf Weber [MVP-DS] <meiweb@(nospam)gmx.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Alan,
>>>>
>>>> You will not remove them from AD, if you mean this as you already
>>>> saw.
>>>> Maybe
>>>> you can make some performance test depending on the hardware of the
>>>> server
>>>> where you connect to, to see if it slow down. So you can schedule
>>>> this to
>>>> non-working hours.
>>>> Best regards
>>>>
>>>> Meinolf Weber
>>>> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties,
>>>> and
>>>> confers
>>>> no rights.
>>>> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
>>>> ** HELP us help YOU!!!http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> Need some advice and reassurance please.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have to export, every day, some attributes of all the user
>>>>> accounts in our W2K3 AD. I'm using an ordinary user account, not
>>>>> one with admin rights to run the export job. I intend to schedule
>>>>> it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any danger doing this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Already exported a couple of OUs as a test without any problems,
>>>>> now I want to export the entire AD. Sorry but I'm paranoid - and a
>>>>> contract worker.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> - Alan.
>>>>>