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Configuring Desktop Migration

Desktop Migration backs up each user's individual user settings and local user accounts and either restores them or migrates them.

Configure Desktop Migration initially using the following functions.

  • Review the cost and end point readiness for upgrading machines to Windows 7 or other operating systems using Migration Readiness.
  • Define a data location to store each user's Data Settings. Typically this is a network directory that both source machines and target machines can access with their credentials.
  • Schedule a one-time or recurring backup of settings for all local user accounts on selected machine IDs using Backup.
  • Create Migration Alerts in response to the success or failure of migration events.

Then restore or migrate individual user settings using one of the following.

  • Optionally restore one or more local user accounts to a single target machine ID using Restore, or...
  • Optionally migrate user settings for one or more local user accounts from a source machine to multiple target machines using Migrate. Optionally rename or add local user accounts on the target machine.

Alternatively the Manage page provides a single page from which you can manage all tasks related to a Desktop Migration backup, restore and migration, organized by machine ID and backup.