7. Select one of the following option buttons:
¶ Append Records
Adds the new user records to existing records in the profile.
Use this option when populating a profile that contains
records you want to keep.
¶ Overwrite Records
Replaces the user records in the profile with the new records.
CAUTION:
If you select this option, all existing records in the profile
will be lost. Any user records deleted and not replaced
during populate will cause the corresponding system
account to be deleted when the profile is distributed.
8. Click Populate and Close to add the records to the profile and
close the dialog.
Command Line
You can use the wpopusrs command to populate a user profile from
a toolkit application installed on a specified endpoint.
For example, to populate profile Texas from endpoint pinatubo for
toolkit application mapp, and to delete users home directories if
their user records are deleted, enter the following command:
wpopusrs -t mapp -d -o @Endpoint:pinatubo @UserProfile:Texas
where:
t mapp
Specifies mapp as the application managed by the
Application Management Toolkit from which the user profile
will be populated.
d
Deletes a users home directory if that users record is
deleted by the o option.
o
Overwrites the current contents of the profile.
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