Exporting and importing user groups

If your organization has many Meridian Enterprise Server user groups and you need to duplicate them on another Meridian Enterprise Server server (such as from a development server to a production server), you can easily export the group memberships from one server to a file that you can import on the other server.

The exported user information contains only the user names and no other account information as described in Creating and editing user accounts. Importing user groups will create any groups that do not already exist and add any existing Meridian Enterprise Server user accounts to the groups (including existing groups). New user accounts are not created.

Note    This process is more efficient than synchronizing the new server from Active Directory as described in Synchronizing users and groups from Active Directory.

To export user groups to a file:

1. In Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console, in the System Management group, click USER MANAGEMENT. The Users page appears and lists the existing user accounts.
2. In the menu, click GROUPS. The Groups page appears.
3. In the app bar, click EXPORT. The group memberships are exported to an XML file named UserGroups.xml that you can edit or import into another system. When the export is finished, the file is downloaded by your browser and you are prompted for what to do with it.
4. Save or open the file.

To import user groups from a file:

1. In Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console, in the System Management group, click USER MANAGEMENT. The Users page appears and lists the existing user accounts.
2. In the menu, click GROUPS. The Groups page appears.
3. In the app bar, click IMPORT. The IMPORT FILE PATH dialog box appears.
4. Click the folder icon . The Open dialog box appears. Navigate to and select the file that contains the exported user groups and then click Open. The file path appears in User groups.
5. Click IMPORT. A confirmation dialog box appears.
6. Click YES. A background task is started and you can continue working. A result dialog box will appear when the task is finished.