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User State Migration Tool (USMT) 3.0

Tuesday, 11 July 2006 by Michel Roth

You can use Microsoft Windows User State Migration Tool (USMT) 3.0 to migrate user accounts during large deployments of Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows Vista operating systems. USMT captures user accounts, including desktop and application settings as well as a user's files, and then migrates them to a new Windows installation. Using USMT can help you improve and simplify your migration process. You can use USMT for both side-by-side and wipe-and-load migrations. If you are only upgrading your operating system, USMT is not needed.

USMT is intended for administrators who are performing automated deployments. If you are only migrating the user states of a few computers, you can use the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard for computers running Windows XP, or Windows Easy Transfer for computers running Windows Vista. USMT enables you to do the following:

� Configure USMT for your unique situation, using the migration rule (.xml) files to control exactly which user accounts, files and settings are migrated and how they are migrated. For more information about how to modify these files, see How to change default behavior.

�Automate your migration using the two USMT command-line tools, which control collecting and restoring the user files and settings. For more information, see ScanState and LoadState.

USMT includes two command-line tools named ScanState and LoadState, a set of modifiable .xml files (MigApp.xml, MigSys.xml, and MigUser.xml), and various internal files. In addition to these components, the migration is also controlled by any custom .xml files that you create, and the options that you specify on the command lines. For example, you can create a Config.xml file using the /genconfig option to specify which operating system components, applications, and application settings to migrate.

Start to learn more about the User State Migration Tool (USMT) 3.0 here.