22 May 2008 11 Comments

Workstation Migration Assistant 1.0 RC3

Hopefully the last bugfix release before I can bring out 1.0 Final.

Changelog and download link are in the Workstation Migration Assistant section

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11 Responses to “Workstation Migration Assistant 1.0 RC3”

  1. Deniz 22 May 2008 at 3:27 pm #
    Great! Can’t wait to try it.
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  2. WKW 27 May 2008 at 1:25 pm #
    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?
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  3. WKW 27 May 2008 at 1:45 pm #
    Doh! You’re one step ahead of me – the link is smaller. :)
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  4. WKW 27 May 2008 at 1:52 pm #
    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.
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  5. Dan 28 May 2008 at 9:05 am #
    WKW: I have this issue fixed for the final 1.0 release.
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  6. Tman 1 June 2008 at 6:23 pm #
    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!

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  7. WKW 4 June 2008 at 1:45 pm #
    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?
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  8. Dan 4 June 2008 at 1:56 pm #
    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

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  9. WKW 4 June 2008 at 8:54 pm #
    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?
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  10. Jamie 27 November 2008 at 1:19 pm #
    Haven’t given your gui a serious try yet, but will be using it for the migration of approximately 50 computers.

    Anxious to see how it goes – will provide feedback once the migration is completed!

    Do you have any newer builds other than RC3?

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  11. Dan 27 November 2008 at 1:23 pm #
    Hey Jamie,

    Yep. v1.02 is available in the WMA section at the top of the page.

    Dan

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