Just a quick question regarding added airtime/data profile to users in v7, I'm in process of upgrading from v6 to v7, and just realized there is no userman, the problem I have is that I have over 2000 users in my current database, all with MAC login/authentication.

The problem I have is after I exported/migrated the database to v7, I just have a list of MAC address, I will manually enter the names of my customers into the comments of the users so I can identify them, however, the way to add a profile.....I have to scroll to their MAC address from a drop down list as I see it?
Are there other ways to do this? Easier ways?

Side note question, is there a way to downgrade CCR2116 from v7 to v6? It's loaded with factory firmware 7.16.2....is there a way to bring this down to 6.49?

What do you mean there is no User Manager (if I understand the acronym "userman" correctly) on v7? It still exists under the Extra Packages for a given architecture

I have the user-manager installed, but on v7 it's not accessible for administrative purposes like the older version. Adding user profiles is now done via winbox or web gui, neither allowing the ability to search by the users first or last name, as before. Yes you can add a comment to the user with their first/last name, and you can search said comment under the user tab within winbox/web-gui, but when you want to add a user profile to a user, you get a drop-down list of all your users showing their mac addresses...I have to then scroll through my 2000 plus user MAC's to find the customer and add the profile. I add countless profiles per day and this method of adding is painful....

I want to see if there's a different method to achieve this?

What do you mean? all commands are available under /user-manager (not /tool user-manager like in ROS6)! You don't need WinBox or WebFig.

There is a page in the docs about migrating user-manager from v6. Perhaps that could be of some sort of help:

https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/spaces/R ... RouterOSv6

user-manager do not exist at all on v7.
On v7 they add a radius server called with same name, but is not the same thing.
Even if it could hypothetically migrate something ("try"), it doesn't work as expected and has absolutely none of the tools that the user manager had before.

The real user-manager on v6 works perfectly, you can leave a dedicated virtual machine, or a dedicated RouterBOARD v6.

Side note question, is there a way to downgrade CCR2116 from v7 to v6? It's loaded with factory firmware 7.16.2....is there a way to bring this down to 6.49?

Forget it, it's not possible.
If a peripheral was born with v7 you can't downgrade it. (It is possible to put v6 back on RouterBOARDs upgraded to v7 that had v6 by default)
Simplistic explanation, but quick: v6 doesn't have the drivers for the peripherals present in the new RouterBOARD.

Thanks, yeah that answers my questions.....damn. Why can they not just give us the old userman back as an option. I guess I'll try integrating free radius for the authentication and accounting.