Migrating users from XP (yeah, I know) to Windows 7 using offline USMT

Question

Using gmail and outlook, Outlook sometime (in around 20% of the cases) hangs in the process of "loading profile" after user has been migrated to a new system with USMT Version 6.2.9200.16384.
I have been reading that the success rate of USMT can be enhanced by doing it offline. So... I am testing a solution to boot the source PC up with WinPE through our PXE-booting solution, and before deploying the new OS, we are doing a USMT scanstate like
this:
mkdir d:\temp
SET USMT_WORKING_DIR=d:\temp
set MIG_OFFLINE_PLATFORM_ARCH=32
"\\Intserv01\usmt\x86\Scanstate.exe" \\intserv01\usmt\%computername% /ui:* /i:"\\Intserv01\usmt\x86\migdocs.xml" /i:"\\Intserv01\usmt
\x86\miguser.xml" /i:"\\Intserv01\usmt\x86\migapp.xml" /o /c /vsc /offlinewindir:d:\Windows /targetWindows7
Now... because the WinPE is not part of the domain, the SID's are migrated... so when doing a loadstate on the target:
set /p brugernavn= "Tast brugernavn (udelad domainname ad.dk)= "
set /p maskinnavn= "Tast maskinnavn (som den hed under forste USMT-korsel altsaa uden W7)= "
"\\Intserv01\usmt\x86\Loadstate.exe" \\intserv01\usmt\%maskinnavn% /ui:AD\%brugernavn% /i:"\\Intserv01\usmt\x86\migdocs.xml" /i:"\\Intserv01\usmt
\x86\miguser.xml" /i:"\\Intserv01\usmt\x86\migapp.xml" /l:C:\Users\Public\Documents\USMTLOG\USMTlog.txt
call "\\intserv01\usmt\sendmail\mails\loadstate_done.cmd"
the user is not migrated back when typing the "brugernavn" (Danish for "username") like "<domain>\<username>"
I guess that typing the SID would work (well just tried it now, and I was right, this does work), but I would prefer typing the username instead.
What would be the best approach to accomplish this?
Regards, Lars.

Answer 1

Hi  Lars,
You can  run the command Scanstate /UI /UE rules with user names, specify which users to migrate with the /all, /ui, /uel, and /ue options with both the ScanState and LoadState command-line tools, for example, To include only User2 from the FarWest
domain, type: /ue:*\* /ui:farwest\user2 the detail configuration can be found at:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560781(v=ws.10).aspx
But I highly recommend to use the SID instead, because the WinPE computer has no knowledge of the domain Specifying /ui:domain\username or /ui:*\username is therefore an invalid command, I am afraid the SID is the best choice, Scanstate /UI /UE rules with
user names will be ignored, thus it won’t work, the detail explaination can be found at:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/02/18/usmt-4-and-winpe-common-issues.aspx
Regards
Wade Liu
TechNet Community Support