Microsoft® Windows® Desktop Deployment Resource Kit

Using Scripted Tools

In many cases, USMT and other, more expensive tools are more than is required. For example, an organization that just wants to migrate users’ network drive mappings and printer connections will find the process of using USMT more work than necessary and the expense of third-party products unnecessary. Instead, you can script simple migrations using Windows Script Host.

The script usrcnx.wsf on this book’s companion CD in the Scripts folder is one such example. This script exports users’ network drive mappings and printer connections to a file. Then, after refreshing the desktop’ with clean images, you run the script again to import the users’ network drive mappings and printer connections. This script is easily customized to ...