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Thanks for your reply.
I done some research before hand and increased it to 2000, we have 1700 users in moodle (too many), 1300 users in AD. cron doesn't remove the excess users, We have it set to suspend.
when we run the php script, we get a blank web page, (no sorce code) and when we run it with php.exe we get a box with some text in it then dissapears with no change.

also within the php script it says it is optimised for 25k users, and i assume if it was reaching some sort of limit i would get some input back before the script reaches it's limit.

We have a similar setup - around 1700 users in LDAP - some missing forename / surname that we don't want to sync to moodle.

We have a Linux server (Ubuntu 10.2) but you may be able to follow some of the same ideas to get around it in Windows.

Here's what we did to get round it:

1. First, increase the maximum page size for LDAP on activedirectory: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770976(WS.10).aspx
2. set up a script that will run daily that will perform the ldap sync:
   
   php [path_to_moodle]/auth/ldap/auth_ldap_sync_users.php -d memory_limit=256M
   
   php delete_empty_users.php
3. Note that the last line is optional - it requires that you create a new file called delete_empty_users.php with the following text:
   
   <?php
   require_once('[path_to_moodle]/config.php');
   require_once($CFG->dirroot . '/lib/dmllib.php');
   $sql = "DELETE FROM `" . $CFG->prefix . "user` WHERE `lastname`='' AND `auth    `='ldap';";
   execute_sql($sql);
   ?>
4. This will delete all users with a blank surname (we have hundreds floating around in active directory - ex students, test users). Make sure that you replace [path_to_moodle] in both files with your moodle root folder (e.g. D:\moodle)
5. If you're in windows, you may have to swap the / for \ in one or both of the above files.

Hope that's some use to you.

That is really strange. The command box shouldn't close at all, even if the script fails.

Anyway, you can make the command send all its output to a file, so even if it closes the command box, you can get the error messages at least.

Something like this should do the trick (all in a single line):


C:\\wamp\\bin\\php\\php5.2.5\\php.exe -c C:\\wamp\\bin\\php\\php5.2.5\\php.ini -d error_log=C:\\some-temp-directory\\php-error.log -f D:\\moodle\\auth\\ldap\\auth_ldap_sync_users.php


Saludos.
Iñaki.