Determining the Approach to Migration
You can use a variety of approaches when migrating the systems on your network. These approaches can be categorized as manual, scripted, automated, and user-driven.
Manual Migration. The manual migration approach uses USMT and includes the following steps:
Acquire the user state information (by using Scanstate.exe).
Deploy the new operating system.
Load the new operating system with the user state information (by using Loadstate.exe).
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Manual migration is Information Technology (IT) labor-intensive, doesn't scale, and has increased error potential.
Scripted Migration. Scripted migration requires that you write migration scripts to acquire and load user state information; yet, once written, the migration process ...
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