Installing USMT

You can install USMT directly on each client computer or stage it on a network share. If you’re using MDT 2008, it can download USMT for you and install it in the distribution share automatically. MDT 2008 already contains logic for installing USMT on each computer and using it to save and restore user state data.

USMT supports both the x86 and x64 platforms. The installation file is InstallUSMT301_ Platform.msi, where Platform is either x86 or x64. Download the USMT installation file for each platform from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=799ab28c-691b-4b36-b7ad-6c604be4c595&DisplayLang=en.

You can install USMT in a number of ways to support use in your organization: locally, on a network share, on a MDT ...

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