I am migrating from windows xp 32 bit to windows 7 64 bit on the same machine. Executing the migration between 2 computers associated in. Worked great but only one issue which is quite a big one. Sms sccm youre currently reading printer migration with sccm and usmt 4 hardlinks february 27 2012 printer migration with sccm and usmt 4 hardlinks. Hardlink migration takes advantage of advanced features of the ntfs file system that allow files to physically remain inplace and intact even after the drive is wiped not formatted. We have microsoft system center configuration manager and we configure operating system deployment feature to deploy microsoft windows 7 to the end users. P im trying to use usmt hardlink functionallity for future reinstallations, but it will not work unless i. Scanstate saves the user state to a hardlink migration store on each computer, improving performance by minimizing network traffic as well as minimizing migration failures on computers with very limited space available on the hard drive. Find answers to hardlink migration using sccm from the expert community at experts exchange. It goes through this process with no errors but when my machine boots into windows 7 there are no traces of logs or my previous data. Sccm current branch 1610 create osd task sequence with full data backup and restore with usmt. A new version if user state migration tool contains a nice feature which is called hard link migration, we can use this feature when we migrate from microsoft windows xp to microsoft windows 7. Demystifying usmt hard link migration yet another system.
Refreshing a windows 7 computer to windows 10 using usmt. In the hardlinks migration, 6 machines that perform the migration process. Sccm current branch 1610 create osd task sequence with. You need to add the state migration point role on your server. Use of a hardlink migration store for a computerrefresh scenario drastically improves migration performance and significantly reduces harddisk utilization, reduces deployment costs and enables entirely new migration.
What usmt does when a system is reimaged might seem like a bit of wizardry, but its really not. Migrating to windows 8 by using hardlinks with configmgr 2012. Hard link migration takes advantage of a feature of the ntfs file system known as hard links. Ive run into a problem that ive been spending far to much time on already. I promised that id post a stepbystep guide on how to create a zerotouch, hardlinking usmt task sequence in sccm 2007 to help refresh your systems from xp to windows 7, so here it is. Youre currently reading printer migration with sccm and usmt 4 hardlinks february 27 2012 printer migration with sccm and usmt 4 hardlinks.