As the Windows XP End-Of-Life approaches (April 8th), let’s take a look at some other technology that was released the same year as Windows XP: The original iPod was released in 2001. The Nokia 8310, released in 2001. Smartphones didn’t exist yet. The original Xbox was released in 2001. Halo, anyone? To be fair, XP has seen hundreds …
For those who are considering the upgrade to SCCM 2012 R2, make sure that you have already upgraded your workstations Windows XP to Windows 7! Configuration Manager 2012 R2 requires the WIndows 8.1 ADK (formerly WAIK) which does not natively support migration from Windows XP (or even Vista) using USMT6 or WinPE. You will receive …
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I had an interesting USMT error that I haven’t run into before today with a client. Simply put, USMT can get hung up over orphaned profiles in the system. This might cause your USMT scanstate, whether in SCCM or MDT, to get stuck on the “Initializing” or “starting the migration process” step. This is caused …
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I promised that I’d post a step-by-step guide on how to create a zero-touch, hardlinking USMT task sequence in SCCM 2007 to help refresh your systems from XP to Windows 7, so here it is. I realize that Windows 8 is the current release, so I will do this same tutorial for a SCCM 2012 …
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Here’s another great snippet of XML that I like to add to my USMT migrations. By default USMT will migrate desktop and start menu shortcuts. This is great if you have the item installed that the shortcut is pointing to! Often in my migrations, though, the software or file that was references by the shortcut …
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