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tomo999
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Posted - 08/14/2012 :  10:48:12 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi Folks,

We are finally migrating to Windows 7!

I'm looking at the USMT 4.0 tool and one thing that is causing me issues is the amount of data it creates when it gets to the profile it calls "This Computer". On some machines the USMT.MIG file is a few hundred MB until it hits this profile and then jumps to multiple GBs of information!

Does anyone know how to exclude this profile from being copied? I only want to grab files in the "Documents and Settings" folder, not from other locations on the machine.

I've already tried using switches
/ue:"This Computer"
and
/ui:DOMAIN\*
but neither seem to work...

Matt.

Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need.

tomo999
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 08/22/2012 :  05:23:06 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Ok, I’m pretty sure that I have the USMT working to only grab profile information and keep the size of the migration file to a minimum. The command I am using now is;
scanstate.exe <NetworkDrive>:\Migration\Store\%computername% /listfiles:C:\listfiles.txt /o /c /uel:60 /i:AllSystemExclude.xml /i:MigApp.xml /i:MigDocs.xml /l:C:\USMTLog.log

And the content of the "AllSystemExclude.xml" file is;
<migration urlid="http://www.microsoft.com/migration/1.0/migxmlext/allfiles">
<component type="Documents" context="System">
	<displayName>Test</displayName>
	<role role="Data">
		<rules>
		<unconditionalExclude>
			<objectSet>
				<pattern type="File">C:\*[*]</pattern>
			</objectSet>
		</unconditionalExclude>
		</rules>
	</role>
</component>
</migration>

From the testing I’ve done, I managed to get a 2GB USMT migration file down to ~20MB and it still migrated all the settings I wanted (icons, office settings, my documents etc).

Matt.

Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need.
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