USMT + UNC + Replace Scenario

Question

Hi folks,
Have a customer that's looking to do USMT to a UNC path in a Replace Scenario. The drawback of course is that we can't use the State Migration Point, so Requesting/Releasing the Mig file is out; nor can we use a %ComputerName% variable, given the new computer
name.
Any ideas on how to accomplish this?
Thanks

Answer 1

I'm a bit unclear why the State Migration point is out and the UNC path is being used.  Is it out simply because that's what the customer wants? 
That said, at the end of the day USMT is just another package being delivered and run by SCCM so there's no reason you couldn't do it provided the UNC was setup with appropriate permissions.
Just set your task sequence to run the command while selecting your USMT package of choice (remember if you are still playing the Windows XP game you will need to find an older version of USMT to use than what is installed with SCCM by default).
Some syntax can be found here (this is for scanstate):
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560781%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
During your replace sequence you'll simply have to prompt for the profile info so it can run the Loadstate.  I'd recommend using MDT or something similar so you can make a "nice looking" UDI page.  Just set a radio button that prompts
if there's a profile to restore then in your task sequence you can make a task sequence group based on the variable (so it skips the section for machines that are new deployments).  If you want to get clever, during your profile backup, store the profile
in a way that you can auto-generate the restore path using the SMSTSUSers variable.  THen there's one less question to ask (or at least it gets replaced with a question like "who's machine will this be").