What do you want to see here? Any ideas?

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Sean Townsend — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:38:06 GMT

Hello, we have been upgrading our machines from XP to Win7 and using USMT for user state migration, and everything has worked beautifully! Until lastnight. This one laptop is giving us a hard time with the restore process. We keep getting error 34 even when using our highest admin rights. I have tried to restore it using command promt with my admin account (run as different user). I have tried the command promt as an administrator and with my email enabled admin account. AND I have tried going directly to the server and running the RESTORE.cmd from there. One thing I should mention although no one in my shop thinks it's a problem. We were backing up and restoring to the same laptop and changed the name of the laptop before the restore was run. However I have tried using both the new and old computer names as the source computer name.

Any thoughts?

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Norman Escobar — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:40:16 GMT

Hi, I wonder if I can use USMT to run scheduled backup of users files to a NAS, is it recommended?? If it so can you give me some ideas? Like, how to avoid certain files extensions, etc. And the most important, Can I do Shadow Copies of locked files you know like outlook.pst. Thank you.

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Mordac85 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:45:07 GMT

I know this post is kinda late, but I just found the site. I'm not a big user of USMT, but will be in the future. From past experience I have never been able to figure out if you could just get a trial run w/o having to actually backup the user data. Just a log file that lists what files and settings would be backed up would help tweak an XML to make sure you caught everything.

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bionicchango — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:23:58 GMT

I'd like to see some USMT tweaking tutorials...

For example: I would like to be able to perform a scan on a PC that will migrate all the usual data from the one specific user and migrate the non-profile data - but without going near any other profiles.

Usually the files are migrated from other profiles because their file extensions are included in the MigUser.xml, so even though USMT in this case will only migrate the PROFILE I want, it will still create other profile folders and populate them with the migrated filetypes it brought over... thus giving end-users the impression that I brought over their long lost colleagues' stuff over also.

I'm not sure if I'm conveying that adequately...

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bionicchango — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:09:59 GMT

What I'd really like to see in future updates to the tool is a viewer to browse through the .mig files. I got USMT3.0.1 running with a DOS read-response thing going on that would build the switches and parameters of the scanstate and loadtstates, depending on what menu options the person chooses. Now it's been embraced by our legal dataa retention department as a legitimate alternative form of data capture to Ghost, and the only thing holding us back is that there is no method to view contents of the compressed mig files without loadstating it back down onto a host machine.

Frankly I'm just happy you guys have a site up now :)

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superdave5220 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:01:13 GMT

I too would like to see a place to see XML code that other have created. I visit many customers and help them with desktop deployment for XP or Vista and I've had to write several custom USMT XML code to capture specific information. I'm sure people on this blog would benefit from what I've done and I too will benefit from seeing what others have done.

Writing custom USMT code is challenging with many hours to troubleshoot and get it just right.

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Lighthater — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:43:11 GMT

I would LOVE to see a repository for USMT. Sample XML configs, custom scripts, batch files, etc. I believe that he community would benefit so much from this. I know that I have struggled with the documentation and if I saw some sample configs that accomplished similar tasks that I wished to accomplish, it would be a major help. It can also benefit others by saving a ton of time. If someone has already created and posted a the XML for migrating an application you need to migrate, then you just saved a few minutes (or hours!) work.

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dwood — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:23:46 GMT

Could you give us some insight in to why printers are not migrated from xp to xp and any thoughts on best practices for doing so? I also would like to see more information about config.xml. Other than that I'd like to offer my thanks for an excellent tool.

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mikenike68 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:53:36 GMT

I would like to see some information on when and how conditions are processed. I have had a few cases where different version of software was used and files needed to be migrated during a reimage.

RelativeMove works and this is easy to do. However, I have run into some cases where you do not know the version of the software that will be installed after the reimage and software install. USMT does not seem to process condition statements on the loadstate only on the scanstate?

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ben_ellsworth — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:27:22 GMT

I second the comment about config.xml. Does it help reduce scan times? When would it be best to use it?