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Windows® 7 Resource Kit
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Windows® 7 Resource Kit

by Tony Northrup Mitch Tulloch and Jerry Honeycutt
October 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1760 pages
93h 25m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 7. Migrating User State Data

  • Evaluating Migration Technologies 224

  • Using Windows Easy Transfer 226

  • Planning User State Migration Using USMT 230

  • Installing USMT 237

  • Understanding USMT Components 238

  • Developing Migration Files 240

  • Using USMT in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 242

  • Summary 245

  • Additional Resources 246

Operating system deployment always involves user state migration—the process of migrating users’ documents and settings from one operating system to another. Even when you don’t migrate user state during deployment, users will spend countless hours trying to restore their preferences (such as desktop backgrounds, screensavers, and themes). Because this manual process reduces user productivity and usually increases support calls, organizations ...

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