Comments on: Microsoft Says Replace User State Migration Tool with OneDrive For Business https://www.urtech.ca/2018/10/microsoft-says-replace-user-state-migration-tool-with-onedrive-for-business/ Technology Doesn't Stop & Neither Does URTech.ca Fri, 11 Jan 2019 22:38:42 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ian Matthews https://www.urtech.ca/2018/10/microsoft-says-replace-user-state-migration-tool-with-onedrive-for-business/comment-page-1/#comment-236068 Fri, 11 Jan 2019 22:38:42 +0000 https://www.urtech.ca/?p=10541#comment-236068 In reply to Lars Lundstad.

Agreed. Windows is not at version 1 where you would expect these migration tools to be so poor. USMT works but it is a pain and it is so slow, that I have written my own scripts to migrate users to new hardware:

What I do is sign into the new PC as the user in question, then I bring up a CMD window and UNC to their current PC so that I get an elevation prompt for permission to their C: drive. (i.e. \\CAL-PC34\C$ and press enter). Then I run the batch file below:

rem * URTech User Backup for Windows 10 Clients
rem * By Ian Matthews
rem * created Janaury 18 2008
rem * last modified April 6 2016
rem *
rem **************************************
@echo .
@echo .

@set /p sourcename=”Enter the PC hostname and user BACKUP: (like \\CAL-PC34\c$\users\lrodsman) :” %=%

rem *** Copying favorites, my docs, desktop and quick launch

robocopy “%sourcename%\Desktop” “c:\users\%username%\Desktop” /MIR /R:2 /W:3 /XJ
robocopy “%sourcename%\Documents” “c:\users\%username%\Documents” /MIR /R:2 /W:3 /XJ
robocopy “%sourcename%\Pictures” “c:\users\%username%\Pictures” /MIR /R:2 /W:3 /XJ
robocopy “%sourcename%\Music” “c:\users\%username%\Music” /MIR /R:2 /W:3 /XJ
robocopy “%sourcename%\Videos” “c:\users\%username%\Videos” /MIR /R:2 /W:3 /XJ
robocopy “%sourcename%\Favorites” “c:\users\%username%\Favorites” /MIR /R:2 /W:3 /XJ
robocopy “%sourcename%\Links” “c:\users\%username%\Links” /MIR /R:2 /W:3 /XJ
robocopy “%sourcename%\AppData\Roaming” “c:\users\%username%\AppData\Roaming” /MIR /R:2 /W:3 /XJ /XD Microsoft
rem – sticky notes are now stored in DOCUMENTS – robocopy “%sourcename%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes” “c:\users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes”

I hope this helps.

]]> By: Lars Lundstad https://www.urtech.ca/2018/10/microsoft-says-replace-user-state-migration-tool-with-onedrive-for-business/comment-page-1/#comment-236062 Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:53:33 +0000 https://www.urtech.ca/?p=10541#comment-236062 That will most certainly not store any of your third party software settings, screen backgrounds, cached logins from chrome and Firefox etc.etc etc. MS ows us all to produce a valid simple way to transition from one PC to another, and also to/from domains Azure..

I’m in the middle of moving +100 users from one AD to another.
After weeks of searches I fund only one product still capable of this and that is USMT

One person with enormous USMT expertise is Thomas Ehler and he built a nice GUI for USMT as well.
A weeks long hazzle has become a very manageable two day project with extremely high quality migrations as result 🙂

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