In this session I’ll review the benefits and limitations of the USMT 4.0. I’ll look at what versions of the Windows are supported for migration as well as what different options for user state migration are available for small, medium and large businesses...

The Atlanta Systems Management User Group and System Center Virtual User Group invites you to attend the next SMUG meeting scheduled for April 22nd, 2011 for a day of great presentations, discussions, and networking. Registration If you are planning to...

Download this handy print-ready poster from the Springboard Series that explores the different options available for deploying Windows 7 in a small or midsize organization. The poster features an overview of each methods:  Manual Installation, Standard...

Just a quick reminder for those of you in the TAMPA, FL area!!!!   Our Systems Management Firestarter being held next Tuesday, April 26, 2011 9:00 AM at the Microsoft Tampa office still has some seats available!!!   Click HERE to register...

Just a quick reminder for those of you in the ATLANTA, GA area!!!!   Our Systems Management FireStarter being held next Thursday, April 28, 2011 9:00 AM at the Microsoft Alpharetta office still has some seats available!!!   Click HERE...

I often get asked at my live events about the utility I use to display machine information in the Desktop Background.  If you’ve been to one of my live events or watched any of my webcasts or screencasts, you’ve seen this as I use it on almost all...

    It’s IT Time and in today’s episode Blain Barton and John Baker welcome Paul Bourgeau from the Windows Intune team. Tune in as Paul takes us through Windows Intune , an Online Service for PC Management, as he demos its user interface - the...

  In today’s episode, John Baker interviews John Clark, a Senior Consultant with the IT Operational Consulting team at Microsoft. Listen in as they dispel some of the myths and misconceptions floating around Cloud computing and it being a replacement...

East Region DPE is currently delivering a System Center Management Firestarter Series .  The PowerPoint presentations covering the following topics are available here for download: System Center Essentials System Center Operations Manager System...

Today’s session we’ll look at some of the new features of User State Migration Tool (USMT) 4.0 including the Hard-link Migration Store, improved space estimation and integration with SCCM and MDT. We’ll drill down into a detailed discussion of exactly...

Before we take a look at the two scenarios, Refresh Computer and Replace Computer, we’ll review the different types of migration stores available. We’ll look at the migration xml files and show how we can do some simple customizations. Resource Links...

In part 4 of this series we’ll drill down in the Hard-link Migration option, one of the most compelling new features of USMT. We’ll look at why it greatly enhances the performance of a migration and finally we’ll see how to use the Scanstate and Loadstate...

One of great new features of the USMT 4.0 is the ability to perform Offline User State Capture. We’ll discuss both offline options available, Windows PE and windows.old directory. We will cover when you would use this feature and what it actually migrates...