Workstation Migration Assistant 1.0 RC3
Hopefully the last bugfix release before I can bring out 1.0 Final.
Here’s the changelist:
WMA 1.0 RC3 (Build 53):
- CHANGE: Debug log is now included as part of SMTP mails if it is found
- CHANGE: Status label made bigger
- CHANGE: Better Logging around Pre/Post Migration Scripts and other logging improvements
- FIX: Alternate Migration Location specified via Advanced Settings or /MIGFOLDER switch were not being used on Restore
- FIX: When a USB drive was chosen as the Datastore location, the C: drive was used instead
- FIX: Clicking No on failed Health Check would not proceed with the Migration
- FIX: MaxMigrationSize triggered error incorrectly reported as “Migration Cancelled”
- FIX: SMTP Mailing now gracefully skips if no Network Connection found (ie, USB mode)
- FIX: Health Check progress information was not being displayed on XP
- FIX: ERROR / WARNING dialogs were sometimes not displayed as the Foreground window
- FIX: SMTP Mailing exception handling improved
- FIX: Cosmetic fixes to Health Check debug output
And of course, the download link 
Dan
Great! Can’t wait to try it.
Excellent Dan - thanks for the work on this. We’re doing a major rollout and you saved me weeks of effort writing my own batch file wrapper for USMT. Nice job on the bug fixes too. Just one small suggection - maybe make the “dcunningham.net” link less prominent in the interface. Maybe a copyright line down at the bottom instead or something?
Doh! You’re one step ahead of me - the link is smaller.
Ok sorry to spam you with comments but I found one bug that I’m still getting. When you enable advanced settings and choose a different location to create the data store, you press OK to accept and the same dialog comes up again (with the new location selected). You have to press OK twice.
WKW: I have this issue fixed for the final 1.0 release.
Hey Dan, so I have been following your tool since the first release. I want to say I love it, as I am now working in an environment without SMS and in a workgroup so the past tools to do this are not available to me. I do have one request, and maybe I’m just not doing something right.
When we are trying to do the ‘I am the only person who uses this Workstation’ option, it does not migrate the local account on the machine which is the users account (not tied to a domain user). Unless we select the ‘This is a shared workstation’ we do not get the current users settings to migrate. I know we can specify the /lac if we were not using your shell and running scanstate in commandline. Is there something you can change to the options to allow us to tell it to migrate the current logged in local user account but not all of them? Or am I just doing something wrong?
Thanks! And again, love the shell!
Yeah I found a similiar issue - when I migrate all accounts, it fails if the same exact local accounts are not on the destination machine. The log says to use /lac to create the accounts. Maybe add a command line switch or an option to use /lac on the loadstate?
TMan / WKW,
I have a new version which resolves both of these problems. The latter is fixed by always using /LAC (which makes sense to me), but allowing the password to be specified in the Config, and the accounts to also be enabled (with /LAE).
Please mail me if you want to test this, as I’m not in a position to do so.
Dan
Got another one for you: I tried using a pre-restore script and it’s not running it at all. Should the value be in quotes maybe? Also is it an absolute or relative (from the migassistant.exe folder) path to the script?