Re: Files Transfer Wizard and USMT

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a144mb <a144mb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I work in a busy work place of Win2K & WinXP platforms with either Office XP
>or Office2K3 being used by staff. I've been in IT for about 5 years. I alone
>am tasked with migrating various office staff from their Win2K/WinXP
>computers to Dell D600 laptops. The laptops are running WinXP SP2/Office2K3
>on 20GB/512MB. We're on a Win2K3 server environment running the latest
>Exchange server. We have a RIS box in place that I've uploaded a base
>WinXP/Office2K3 laptop image on. I have 12 - 16 users that I'm converting to
>laptops one or two at a time. No more than three max. The staff continue
>their day-to-day work on their old PCs while I build their new laptops in our
>IT Dept. My question is once I've downloaded the image from RIS, what steps
>or processes do I need to take to transfer the user's current desktops and
>Outlook settings onto their new laptop? The upmost important thing is that
>user's Outlook contacts (personal 'Outlook Address Books', rules, notes,
>journals, and archived folders) are tranferred INTACT. Would I copy these
>items (PSTs?) manually or trust the Files & Settings Transfer Wiz (FSTW) or
>the User State Migration Tool (USMT)? If so, which transfer tool do I use and
>how-base on the environment I've described above?


I would use the FSTW, but then that is what I am most familiar with
and it works well for me.

See the article on using FSTW by MVP Gary Woodruff at
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpupgrad.htm

One hint. When I am using FSTW to accumulate the files I always
create a new folder in the root directory and name it Transfer. FSTW
then creates an additional subfolder within that folder to actually
store the information. And when I go to import the data into the new
machine I always point FSTW at the \Transfer folder and not at the
subfolder. It always finds the data and puts it in the correct
location.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
http://aumha.org/alex.htm
.

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