I've been testing scanstate in Offline mode while in Windows PE in the last few days for Windows XP to Windows 7 migrations and it's impressive and fast, so I thought this would be a good way of showing you how the process works using some screenshots and links to info. First of all we start with a Windows XP desktop, nothing fancy, I’ve just dumped 2.5GB of data onto the desktop for the Demo...

Read More... No Comments 09:12 - Feb 24, 2010

hi all, well this feature in USMT 4 is handy, as it allows you to do a scanstate while in Windows PE in other words, not in the OS so no problems with services running or applications running meaning that you get to backup everything you want without any locked files stopping from doing so. Great, but how is it done ? according to Microsoft , we can use the /offlinewindir switch in USMT 4 with scanstate...

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Specifying an Organisational Unit (OU) using the MachineObjectOU variable. Step 1. Create a collection variable. In Configmgr expand the collections node and select your Deploy 7 x86 collection (if you don't have one, create one for the purpose of this test). Right click on the Collection and choose Modify Collection Settings , click on the Collection Variables tab. Create a new Collection Variable...

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This is a very common question, how can I change the regional, keyboard, locale etc in Windows 7, so I'll try and explain how i do it in this post. In this example we will make the Italian keyboard layout (it-IT) the default keyboard layout for Windows 7 login screen, location, keyboard layout. Now of course you can add many more changes to your Unattend.xml file and use them all together to apply...

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