Windows loadstate

Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Note You can migrate a bit operating system to a bit operating system.

Important You must run USMT using an account with full administrative permissions, including the following privileges:. Submit and view feedback for This product This page. In the "Scanning" phase, ScanState does the following for each user profile selected for migration:. For each component, ScanState checks the type of the component. Otherwise, the component is ignored. Otherwise, this component is ignored. ScanState processes all components in the same way. Each component that is selected in the previous step is processed further.

Otherwise, the processing of this component continues. Otherwise, this rule is ignored. For more information about precedence in the. These sections are evaluated only on the destination computer. In the "Collecting" phase, ScanState creates a master list of the migration units by combining the lists that were created for each selected user profile. In the "Saving" phase, ScanState writes the migration units that were collected to the store location.

The LoadState process is very similar to the ScanState process. The ScanState tool collects migration units such as file, registry key, or registry values from the source computer and saves them to the store. Similarly, the LoadState tool collects migration units from the store and applies them to the destination computer. The only way to specify which users to include and exclude is by using the following options.

You cannot exclude users in the migration. For more information, see Identify Users. The following table indicates which command-line options are not compatible with the LoadState command. If the table entry for a particular combination is blank, the options are compatible and you can use them together. The X symbol means that the options are not compatible.

Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Is this page helpful? Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Important Use caution with this option, because anyone who has access to the LoadState command-line script will also have access to the encryption key.

Note If you specify an OldDomain that did not exist on the source computer, the LoadState command will appear to complete successfully, without an error or warning.

However, in this case, users will not be moved to NewDomain but will remain in their original domain. Caution Use the Password variable with caution because it is provided in plain text and can be obtained by anyone with access to the computer that is running the LoadState command. Also, if the computer has multiple users, all migrated users will have the same password. Submit and view feedback for This product This page.

View all page feedback. In this article. Indicates the folder where the files and settings data are stored. You must specify StorePath when using the LoadState command. You cannot specify more than one StorePath. Encryption is disabled by default. If there is a space in KeyString , you will need to surround KeyString with quotation marks. We recommend that KeyString be at least eight characters long, but it cannot exceed characters.

For more information about supported encryption algorithms, see Migration Store Encryption. Compression is enabled by default. You can use the uncompressed store to view what USMT stored, troubleshoot a problem, or run an antivirus utility against the files. However, if you do choose to migrate an uncompressed store, the LoadState command will migrate each file directly from the store to the correct location on the destination computer without a temporary location.

This option is used to define a path to an offline. This option specifies the offline Windows directory that the ScanState command gathers user state from. The offline directory can be Windows. This command-line option enables the offline migration mode and starts the migration from the location specified.

It is only intended to be used in Windows. You can specify this option multiple times to include all of your. Path can be either a relative or full path. If you do not specify the Path variable, then FileName must be located in the current directory.

Generate Config. To ensure that this file contains every component, application and setting that can be migrated, you should create this file on a source computer that contains all the components, applications, and settings that will be present on the destination computers. In addition, you should specify the other migration. If you do not specify the Path variable, then FileName will be created in the current directory.

Examples: The following example creates a Config. Specifies the Config. You cannot use this option more than once on the command line. The following example creates a store using the Config. This option enables you to specify the location of the default. This option specifies that the ScanState command should use the document finder to create and export an. Optimizes Scanstate. You should use this command-line option in the following scenarios: To create a Config.

To create a migration store. Migrates only files that are stored on the local computer, regardless of the rules in the. You should use this option when you want to exclude the data from removable drives on the source computer, such as USB flash drives UFDs , some external hard drives, and so on, and when there are network drives mapped on the source computer. In some cases large external hard drives are considered fixed drives.

These drives can be explicitly excluded from migration by using a custom.