USMT\Profile Migration

[tyanni]

We (actually, I) are in the process of planning a desktop replacement project in which 70 plus desktops will be replaced with new ones. I'd like to script the profile migration. Anyone here have experience with USMT? I've gotten the inf files to work, but its scripting it so it runs automatically for each user and stores their profile in a unique location on the network which has got me stumped.

Thanks!
Tim

 

[KB]

You can do this in a batch file. The command line for the tool is

scanstate [/c] [/i:inffile] [/l:logfile] [/v:verboselevel] [/f] [/u] [/x] <intermediate store>

SO you need to put the scanstate on a server:
Do your users have their homedrive connected to the server?

Then you might do this in the batch file

mkdir %HOMEDRIVE%\usmt or
mkdir H:\usmt if h is always the homedrive

Or if you have a special server for these files then you micght do this:

mkdir \\server\share\%USERNAME%

then you would run

scanstate [/c] [/i:inffile] [/l:logfile] [/v:verboselevel] [/f] [/u] [/x] <directory you created above>