Mastering the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

ScanState and LoadState syntax

Writing down a full list of all possible ScanState and LoadState syntax and their possible combinations would exceed the limits of this chapter by far (and would also be very boring content).

For this reason, we will only highlight some particularly noteworthy command syntax you should take a closer look at, marked by ScanState only, LoadState only, and generally valid for both.

Command-Line Argument	Description
/o (ScanState only)	Required to overwrite any existing data in the store location or Config.xml file. We recommend to delete migration store between executions.
/hardlink	Needs to be combined with the /nocompress option. It will enable the hard-link migration. StorePath needs to be on the same ...