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Group and User Name Requirements

When specifying group and user names:

• If the user or group name contains spaces, you must enclose the name in "double quotes".

  If you use double quotes,

• If any groups or users have names that contain Far Eastern characters, make sure your CSV file is saved in a Unicode format to ensure that these characters are preserved during import.

Important! If you use the newuser, newgroup, defaultgroup, moveuser or movegroup variables, you must delete any trailing spaces after the group name! If any are present, the import operation will fail.

Example Group Path

The correct path specification for a user group depends on the actual user hierarchy in the Administration Console and the management group for the user running Account Import. For example, if the full path to locate the /North group in the group hierarchy is:

Users/Sales/Asia/Hong Kong

And your management group is /Sales, then you must use the following paths to add the user lsteel to these groups: