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We have to do testing on DNN sites regularly, eg. for upgrading, modules updates etc.

Our normal way of working is to make a back-up of the production site, restore it on a test server, changing portal alias, DB etc.in de web.config and start testing.

What we would like to do as well, is anonymizing the users in the standard user table(s). 

Does anyone have an SQL script or procedure to do so? And are you willing to share that script?

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I would also be interested in that - maybe I play around a bit to do it, but could we talk about the actual requirements? Is anonymizing enough, or do we need a mechanism for pseudonymization as well? Shall the user names be kept, so only firstname, lastname and displayname are overwritten? What about the profiles? Role memberships? Or would you like something more flexible, eg. time-based bulk anonymizations (e.g. all users that haven't logged into a portal for the last 10 years)?

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Maybe Ask Peter donker about the code he added for GDPR, I'm not 100% sure but I think there's code to anonimize users for GDPR in the framework.

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As of today this has not (yet) been implemented. I wanted to do this, but it is more tricky than it appears. The biggest stumbling block is the multi portal situation. Let's assume a user is a member of two portals on DNN and wishes to be removed/anonymized from one portal. There are some details of users that are stored centrally (email, username) in Users and aspnet_Users. The profile props are bound to a portal, so they pose no problem. It's the central data that is the issue.

What do you think should happen?

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We can try to solve the whole world in one giant leap forward, but that was not my intention.
I just want a small step at the time: anonymizing a local copy of a complete site.

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Sure. Me, too. So what do you propose to avoid the situation described above? Disable on multi portal sites?
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Just randomize, so name & email adddress is randomized for all portals.

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Here's a simple query I use:

--Remove Email Addresses from Users Table
Update Users
Set Email = convert(nvarchar(255),UserID) + '@test.com'

You could do the same for other fields.

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