Quick-Start Guide and Checklist

Published: June 30, 2006 | Updated: November 30, 2006

This section provides a high-level overview of the planning and deployment phases of user state migration. Team members should use this information to ensure that they do not miss critical steps.

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Planning Phase Planning Phase
Developing Phase Developing Phase
Stabilizing Phase Stabilizing Phase
Deploying Phase Deploying Phase

Planning Phase

The primary focus in this phase is to determine which elements of user state to migrate to new systems. The User State Migration feature team will use assessments that the Application Compatibility feature team performs and input from customer subject matter experts (SMEs) to create a list of application settings and data to be migrated. They team will then make a plan to create control files that will migrate all required settings and data.

  

High-level steps in the user state migration Planning Phase

 

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Complete an application inventory.

Working with the Application Compatibility feature team, complete an inventory of all applications that store user state data, such as data files and user-specific application settings.

 

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Prepare a migration plan.

Develop a plan to migrate user state data, including which user state data will be migrated and where data will reside during migration.

Developing Phase

The following checklist describes the high-level steps in the Developing Phase.

    

High-level steps in the user state migration Developing Phase

 

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Control files developed.

Design Microsoft Windows User State Migration Tool (USMT) Scanstate and Loadstate .xml control files to control the operation of the USMT during the migration process.

 

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Previous version control files migrated.

Convert any control files used in previous versions of the USMT.

Stabilizing Phase

Below are the major steps that the User State Migration feature team must accomplish during the Stabilizing Phase.

  

High-level steps in the user state migration Stabilizing Phase

 

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Test USMT control files.

Test migration control files to ensure that user state migrates successfully under a wide range of likely scenarios.

 

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Update deployment servers with tested control files.

When the User State Migration feature team has tested and accepted the control files, the files can reside on the servers that the team will use for the deployment.

Deploying Phase

The User State Migration feature team hands off to the Deployment feature team in this phase.

  

High-level steps in the user state migration Deploying Phase

 

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User State Migration feature team hand-off to Deployment feature team.

The Deploying Phase begins after the User State Migration feature team hands over the prepared USMT infrastructure. Some User State Migration feature team members will transition to this phase, joining the Deployment feature team.

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