Friday 15 February 2013

VMWare Mirage Windows 7 Migration - Settings that migrate


VMWare Mirage uses the Microsoft USMT to perform simple hands off migrations of users Windows XP machines to Windows 7. 
This migration technique migrates a number of user settings. 

The following are the default settings that are migrated with the tool.
  • Accessibility settings
  • Address book
  • Command-prompt settings
  • Desktop wallpaper (not migrated when using offline backup)
  • Encrypting File System (EFS) files
  • Favorites
  • Folder options
  • Fonts
  • Group membership
  • Internet Explorer settings (not migrated when using offline backup)
  • Microsoft ODBC settings
  • Mouse and keyboard settings
  • Network drive mapping
  • Network printer mapping (not migrated when using offline backup)
  • Offline files (not migrated when using offline backup)
  • Phone and modem options (not migrated when using offline backup)
  • Remote Access Service (RAS) connection and phone book (.pbk) files
  • Regional settings (not migrated when using offline backup)
  • Remote Access
  • Taskbar settings (not migrated when using offline backup)
  • Windows Mail (Microsoft Outlook Express Mail, or .dbx, files are migrated from Windows XP)
  • Windows Media Player (not migrated when using offline backup)
  • Windows Rights Management
The following article has some good information on the USMT tool

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