Microsoft® Desktop Deployment Assistance Program 5: USMT Drill Down Thomas Lee Chief Technologist QA plc

Agenda USMT Overview Getting started Key Features Planning for USMT New Features EFSSummary

User State Migration Balance between standardized desktops and user state migration User State Migration Tool (USMT) Migrates data files and user settings Need to modify USMT scripts to achieve your goals Migrating state is hard!

USMT overview Source Operating Systems Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows ME Windows NT 4 Windows 2000 Windows XP Destination Operating Systems Windows 2000 Windows XP

USMT Components – Saving State Scanstate.exe, scanstatea.exe – saves state Usmtdef.inf – system configuration Sysfiles.inf – files NOT migrated Migism.inf – controls some operations (cookie migation, printers, etc) Migapp.inf – application settings to migrate Migsys.inf – which OS settings to migrate Miguser.inf – user settings to migrate

USMT Components – Restoring State Loadstate.exe – restores state Migration.inf – what to restore (created by scanstate)

Getting Started 1. Which Users do I need to migrate? - Only Domain Users - Active/Inactive Users 2. What Files and Settings are important? - How is data stored now & after migration? - Opportunity to create managed environment. 3. What Application settings are important? - Office migration - Important LOB applications - Custom applications

Features - Settings List settings Outlook Outlook Express Mail profile(s) Personal store Address Book Internet Explorer ProxiesFavoritesHistoryCookies Home Page Environment Desktop Properties Folder Options Taskbar Settings AccessibilityFontsRAS/DUN Network Resources Mapped Drives Network Printers And more…

Planning for USMT USMT needs planning to be successful Identify these key items SettingsFiles File Types Folders Application Configuration Identify desktop changes Change in the number of partitions? Plan for a managed desktop Restrict users to My Documents? Modify the INFs for your environment

Planning for USMT Network infrastructure implications Server storage Network bandwidth How many users at a time? How much state for an average user? How long will data be saved? What about backups? XP disk image should include USMT to restore the user state

USMT 2.6 – New Features Support for multiple user profiles Support for multiple user profiles Unattended migration Unattended migration Progress logs Progress logs Interoperability with EFS Interoperability with EFS Compression Compression Office 2003 support Office 2003 support Estimates Estimates

Multi-User support Capture all user profiles and state found on a single system within a single execution scanstate /all \\server42\UserData\%COMPUTERNAME% Include users/domains based on wildcards: /user: \ /user: \

Unattended migration Enables fully automated migration No need for users to be logged on Can run in the context of localsystem\administrator

Progress logs Command line syntax: /progress: /progress: Simple output syntax Start LOADSTATE path,, message specific syntax,, message specific syntax End LOADSTATE exitcode bytes-moved Heartbeat log every 2 minutes Enables scripting to parse logs and send alerts to monitoring systems such as MOM

EFS – Encrypted file system 4 new command line arguments: /efs-abort Abort if EFS file is encountered (default) /efs-skip /efs-skip Skip EFS files /efs-decrypt-copy /efs-decrypt-copy Decrypt and copy /efs-raw Copy as is EFS Encryption keys are computer specific - use extreme caution in wipe & load scenarios.

Compression Decreased storage space during migration /compress+ (default) /compress- Appropriate when transporting over the network.

Office 2003 support Captures and restores Office 2003 settings Captures and restores Office 2003 settings Calendar settings Calendar settings Outlook settings Outlook settings

USMT 2.6 Does Not… Migrate applications Migrate file ACLs Copy EFS certificates Have an Undo Know which user should be applied to a specific computer. This requires automation using: System SMBIOS UUID MAC address

Configuration Defined by multiple.INF files INF files are customizable by you The default INFs focus on Key Shell settings Mail & Internet connectivity settings User data Very limited application settings The user’s hive (HKCU)

Summary Migrate multiple user profiles Uses local system account Profile Filtering - Avoids non-user profiles Migrate from non-domain computer Office 2003 settings migration support More network aware Compression and Retries Avoids moving data located on a network resource Enhanced remote operation Progress logging & more command line options Heartbeat Other enhancements

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