I was wondering if you guys would mind doing a tutorial for exporting and importing users and roles. I see a number of 3rd party modules available but I find it hard to believe this could not be accomplished with SQL (export/import), Excel, and XML. I am kinda stuck with 2 production websites and the new one has to inherit the users from the old one but I am unsure how to accomplish this without breaking my dnn install.

Hello,

Thanks for the suggestion, I will look into it

In the meantime, DNNMasters_MMS_PRO module is a nice module.  It paid for itself instantly.

A reply to my own thread because I wanted to share with you some of my findings. I tested the method below with a DNN test install of DNN 5.4.4 with 20 roles and 1000+ users and it seems to have worked fine. If your interested I have provided my intructions in the attached text file. I used several different tools, and free resources. Thanks! I look forward to a refined method, and one that does not required $$.

Thanks for the information.  I have used John Mitchell's approach several times.  It does require some additional knowledge.  It would also be possible to extend that approach to add roles to the xml file and add code to the page to populate users in the required roles.  If you did that, you could avoid the SQL part.