At a couple customers we are using the Microsoft Authorization Manager (Azman). This gives us great flexibility in managing the security aspect of our applications. But one very important feature is missing: the possibility to migrate data between Azman stores. Follow this link to learn more about AzMan.
While there is no production tool meant to provide this, a sample application azmigrate.exe is available in the Windows SDK. This tool can export the AzMan store allowing migrations from AD to XML or from XML to AD.
To get azmigrate.exe you must download the Windows SDK and once it is installed you need to:
1) Compile the AzMigrate project using Visual Studio:
a. Select File > Open > Project/Solution.
b. Change the Solutions Configurations drop-down in the toolbar from Debug to Release. (Don’t forget to do this. I got some compilation errors in Debug mode.)
c. Select AzMigrate.vcproj located under %programfiles%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0\Samples\Security\Authorization\AzMan\AzMigrate.
2) In Visual Studio select Build > Build Solution, then click Build > Build AzMigrate and get the compiled binary from %Program Files%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.1\Samples\Security\Authorization\AzMan\AzMigrate\Win32\Release.
Once you’ve compiled azmigrate.exe, here’s the syntax needed to export the AzMan store from Active Directory to an XML file in the C:\Temp folder:
AzMigrate.exe "msxml://C:/ Temp/AzmanStore.xml" "msldap://dc0.contoso.com:389/CN=AzmanStore,CN=Program Data,DC=contoso,DC=com" /o /l=C:\temp\export.log /v
The exported XML file can now be loaded in azman.msc directly from the XML file or you can import the file to another Active Directory domain where the Domain Function Level has been raised to Windows Server 2003 by running using this command:
AzMigrate.exe "msldap://dc0.contoso.com:389/CN=AzmanStore,CN=Program Data,DC=child,DC=contoso,DC=com" "msxml://C:/ Temp/AzmanStore.xml" /o /l=C:\temp\import.log /v