USMT and Office 2010

2011-03-05 Leave a comment

A new hotfix for USMT 4.0 was released in February. You should care if you are using USMT to migrate user settings and data to computers running Office 2010, or if you are using USMT 4.0 and SCCM to migrate user settings and data from Windows XP computers. Check out Michael Niehaus’ post  USMT 4.0 Support for Office 2010 for more information.

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Demystifying USMT Hard Link Migration

2010-10-22 Leave a comment

It was a bit tough to wrap my head around the whole concept of hard link migration in USMT. In the past, if I wanted to re-image a user’s machine, I needed to safeguard all the user’s precious data first. I might store their documents on a network server, or removable storage. Once I’d done that, I would rebuild their machine, and then restore the user data from it’s temporary vault. Problem was, all this data transfer took time. If the user had a lot of local data, it could take a very long time. Read more of this post

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