Comments on: Workstation Migration Assistant 1.0 RC1 http://dcunningham.net/2008/03/13/workstation-migration-assistant-10-rc1/ Tech Tools and IT Infrastructure thoughts... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:58:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Henry Wright http://dcunningham.net/2008/03/13/workstation-migration-assistant-10-rc1/comment-page-1/#comment-447 Henry Wright Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:33:00 +0000 http://dcunningham.net/?p=70#comment-447 During our recent pc deployment I believe that your tool or something similar ( Ibelieve it was your migration tool) was used. Excellent application and I expected to more information and purchase the tool for other uses. Keep up the great work During our recent pc deployment I believe that your tool or something similar ( Ibelieve it was your migration tool) was used. Excellent application and I expected to more information and purchase the tool for other uses. Keep up the great work

]]> By: Ian Fraser http://dcunningham.net/2008/03/13/workstation-migration-assistant-10-rc1/comment-page-1/#comment-185 Ian Fraser Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:54:26 +0000 http://dcunningham.net/?p=70#comment-185 Hi Dan I've developed a similar HTA for USMT migration but it executes capture and restore on the target machine remotely. This allows a helpdesk to manage this without visiting the users desktop. I used some sysinternals tools for the remote execution - (psexec, pskill) and it,s managed via a GUI. I used cs.ini to manage the machine variables for the capture path. Is the remote execution something that you would consider adding to your tool? Cheers Ian Hi Dan

I’ve developed a similar HTA for USMT migration but it executes capture and restore on the target machine remotely. This allows a helpdesk to manage this without visiting the users desktop. I used some sysinternals tools for the remote execution – (psexec, pskill) and it,s managed via a GUI.

I used cs.ini to manage the machine variables for the capture path.

Is the remote execution something that you would consider adding to your tool?

Cheers

Ian

]]> By: Myton Lopez http://dcunningham.net/2008/03/13/workstation-migration-assistant-10-rc1/comment-page-1/#comment-184 Myton Lopez Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:09:22 +0000 http://dcunningham.net/?p=70#comment-184 Hi Dan, I was able to get WMA to work without downloading the USMT and also got it to work on my flash drive without it giving me that prompt. I haven't tried using WMA from a network share yet with the cmd you mentioned. I was thinking about creating a batch file to run it and will test next week for I am ready to leave and go home. By the way on an older computer I got an error launching WMA for the Net Framework version on the laptop was not at least a certain version. Might want to add that to the prerequisites for running the WMA. I really like the MailSend option of the success or failure scanstate and loadstate. I also like the health check feature for I had booted up a laptop that must have shutdown improperly and it flagged it...I thought that was pretty cool. Keep up the good work. Myton Hi Dan,

I was able to get WMA to work without downloading the USMT and also got it to work on my flash drive without it giving me that prompt. I haven’t tried using WMA from a network share yet with the cmd you mentioned. I was thinking about creating a batch file to run it and will test next week for I am ready to leave and go home. By the way on an older computer I got an error launching WMA for the Net Framework version on the laptop was not at least a certain version. Might want to add that to the prerequisites for running the WMA. I really like the MailSend option of the success or failure scanstate and loadstate. I also like the health check feature for I had booted up a laptop that must have shutdown improperly and it flagged it…I thought that was pretty cool. Keep up the good work.

Myton

]]> By: Myton Lopez http://dcunningham.net/2008/03/13/workstation-migration-assistant-10-rc1/comment-page-1/#comment-183 Myton Lopez Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:56:35 +0000 http://dcunningham.net/?p=70#comment-183 Yeah if you can run the WMA from a network share that would be optimal. I have the WMA copied to a flashdrive and everytime I launch it prompts that a USB drive is detected and if I want to use it for the migration process and I say no because there is not enough room on the flash drive to save the data to it. It than goes on and gives me a warning unable to find the USMT installation C:\Program Files\USMT301\scanstate or something like that but give me the option to install the USMT and it downloads and saves the InstallUSMT301_x86.msi to my flash drive and installs the USMT on the computer. I had ran the scanstate and loadstate and on the 4 laptops I tested it downloaded and installed the USMT when testing the scanstate and loadstate. Yeah if you can run the WMA from a network share that would be optimal. I have the WMA copied to a flashdrive and everytime I launch it prompts that a USB drive is detected and if I want to use it for the migration process and I say no because there is not enough room on the flash drive to save the data to it. It than goes on and gives me a warning unable to find the USMT installation C:\Program Files\USMT301\scanstate or something like that but give me the option to install the USMT and it downloads and saves the InstallUSMT301_x86.msi to my flash drive and installs the USMT on the computer. I had ran the scanstate and loadstate and on the 4 laptops I tested it downloaded and installed the USMT when testing the scanstate and loadstate.

]]> By: Dan http://dcunningham.net/2008/03/13/workstation-migration-assistant-10-rc1/comment-page-1/#comment-182 Dan Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:49:24 +0000 http://dcunningham.net/?p=70#comment-182 Randy: No, USMT will not work under WinPE 2.0 and either with WMA as it relies on the .NET framework. Myton: You know, I hadn't thought about that. Technically, no, USMT doesn't need to be installed, WMA does have to be copied somewhere locally though. So you can copy USMT and WMA files to a Temp folder and run. I'll look into fixing this .NET security issue - there MUST be some workaround to get WMA running from a network location. Randy: No, USMT will not work under WinPE 2.0 and either with WMA as it relies on the .NET framework.

Myton: You know, I hadn’t thought about that. Technically, no, USMT doesn’t need to be installed, WMA does have to be copied somewhere locally though. So you can copy USMT and WMA files to a Temp folder and run. I’ll look into fixing this .NET security issue – there MUST be some workaround to get WMA running from a network location.

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