Moving Users from Cognos -> Active Directory

[craigdelaney]

We currently have a C8.4 environment that uses Cognos7 authentication and are looking at implementing AD authentication. Obviously all of the user objects (My Folders, reports, report views, schedules, email recipients on scheduled objects etc) are linked to the Cognos7 user and so will need to be moved to the equivalent user in the AD namepace.

Was just wondering if anyone has found a way to handle the migration of users from 1 namespace to another so that all of these user objects are updated? (FYI we are not licensed to use the SDK).

I believe that meta-manager can do some/all of this (not sure about the updating the email recipients on scheduled objects) but I've also heard its pretty pricey (especially with the Aussie dollar tanking at the moment) so wondering if there are any other cheaper/free tools out there as well.