Hello world!

The USMT (User State Migration Tool) team now has a blog

Aaron Tiensivu's Blog — Thu, 01 May 2008 04:02:16 GMT

Check it out here. No "real" content yet, just an announcement so far.

re: Hello world!

samohtrelhe — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:59:34 GMT

Hello YOU guys!!!

I'm SO happy to find you here you won't believe it ;-)

Within the last month I've brushed off an old idea building a real GUI for USMT.

I've rebuilt it for v. 3.01 AND actually downgraded it to VB6 (Yes?? - Well I got reeeeealy bored with installing .net just to be able to run 135K code!!!)

I have ONE grave problem though!

When migrating from XP to XP, which according to documentation should also migrate Oulook Express, it doesn't at all. No mails, contacts or accounts.

Everything else is exactly as expected and with a Vista as target there's no problem migrating OE->Windows mail.

I've added my commandline below:

scanstate C:\temp /targetxp /config:C:\temp\config.xml /i:C:\temp\migapp.xml /i:C:\temp\migsys.xml /i:C:\temp\miguser.xml /all /progress:C:\DOCUME~1\bruger\LOKALE~1\Temp\USMTprog.log /l:C:\DOCUME~1\bruger\LOKALE~1\Temp\USMTscan.log /o /localonly /c

Really hope you can find the time since we could use USMT a lot more if this bit worked.

18 month old bug found ;-)

samohtrelhe — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:06:18 GMT

I forgot to say that in he default migUser.xml that comes with USMT 3.01 there is a small syntax error.

in the <locationModfy..> section theres two

to begin with. I guess everyone using this figures it out but it could be nice if not everyone has to locate this error by themselves.

Regards

Thomas

usmt Gui

samohtrelhe — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:27:58 GMT

Sorry

forgot a link to usmtGui if anyone's interested

http://usmtgui.ehler.dk

Regards

Thomas

re: Hello world!

tdolan — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:33:20 GMT

Thomas,

Thanks for pointing out the Outlook express issue. We will see if we can take a look at that.

The problem you found in MigUser.xml is something that we are aware of, but I really appreciate you pointing it out here as well.

Thanks,

Terry