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KACE Systems Deployment Appliance 7.0 Common Documents - Administrator Guide

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Scan user states

Scan user states

You can specify which data and settings to migrate or to exclude from the device from which you are scanning new user states. You can capture user states with the KACE SDA, or any linked RSA appliances.

Create or modify a USMT Scan Template to specify which data and settings to migrate or to exclude. When scanning devices running Windows 7 and higher, configure the following settings:
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Turn off simple file sharing or the firewall.
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Enable the default administrator account.
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Turn off Windows Defender.
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Enable file and print sharing.
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Set User Account Control (UAC) to never notify.
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Open the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance Administrator Console or the KACE Remote Site Appliance.
2.
KACE Remote Site Appliance only. Ensure the following steps are completed:
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The USMT Toolkit is uploaded to the linked KACE SDA.
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The RSA is synchronized with its KACE SDA, causing the USMT Toolkit to be pushed out to the RSA.
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On the left navigation pane, click Library to expand the section, then click User States to display the User States page.
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Select Choose Action > New to display the Scan New User State page.
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Select the USMT version and template.
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Complete the Client Device Detail information:

Option

Description

HostName/IP

The fully qualified host name or IP address for the device that you are scanning. Use a comma, semi-colon, or a new line as a delimiter to enter a range of devices.

Domain

The domain name if the device that you are scanning is connected to a domain.

User Name

Administrator privileges on the device that you are scanning.

Password

Administrator privileges on the device that you are scanning.

7.
Click Next.
When the process completes successfully, a list of profiles appears.
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Select the profiles that you want to migrate on to the appliance, and click Next.
The Results Log appears.
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Click Finish.
If the scan fails, go to Settings > Appliance Logs and check the USMT error log. Terminate any processes that should not be running, for example Windows Defender.
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The capture process adds a user entry to the image to the User States page in the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance Administrator Console, and also in the Remote Site Console, if the user state is captured using an RSA.
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The KACE SDA assigns an ID to each captured user state.
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TIP: Each user state captured with the KACE SDA or its linked RSAs has a unique ID. This allows the appliance to keep track of all the different user states captured with the linked KACE SDA or RSA, and to synchronize any user states, as you edit them. To find out an ID of a user state, hover over the user state on the User States page. The ID appears in the bottom-left corner.

The selected user states are uploaded to the appliance and appear in the list on the User State page. You can deploy the user states to target devices by assigning the Deploy User States post-installation task to a scripted installation or system image deployment.

Scan user states offline

Scan user states offline

Scanning user states offline enables you to capture the user profiles from devices that are assigned to a deployment. The appliance captures the profiles if the Scan User States Offline pre-installation task is assigned to the scripted Installation or system image, then deploys the selected user states with the Deploy User States post-installation task. When scanning user states, you can also choose to load additional user states that are available on the appliance.

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Complete one of the following steps:
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On the left navigation pane, choose Deployments > System Images to display the System Images page. Then click a system image name to display the System Image Detail page.
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On the left navigation pane, choose Deployments > Scripted Installations to display the Scripted Installation page. Then click a scripted installation name to display the Scripted Installation Detail page.
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On the left navigation pane, choose Deployments > Custom Deployments to display the Custom Deployments page. Then click a custom deployment name to display the Custom Deployments Detail page.
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Select the name of the scripted installation or the system image deployment to which you want to migrate the user states.
The Scripted Installation Detail or the System Image Detail page appears.
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Under Installation Plan, move the Scan User States Offline Pre-installation Task from the Available Pre-installation Tasks column to the Run Pre-installation Tasks column. Ensure that you place the Scan User State Offline first in the list and that you add the Deploy User States post-installation task.
If a user profile on a target device matches a user profile on the existing user state records, the process overwrites the existing record.
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Click Save.
The appliance rebuilds the scripted installation or the system image.

Deploy user states to target devices automatically

Deploy user states to target devices automatically

The appliance captures user states if the Scan User States Offline pre-installation task is assigned to a scripted installation or system image deployment, then loads the captured user states using the Deploy User States post-installation task.

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Complete one of the following steps:
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On the left navigation pane, choose Deployments > System Images to display the System Images page. Then click a system image name to display the System Image Detail page.
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On the left navigation pane, choose Deployments > Scripted Installations to display the Scripted Installation page. Then click a scripted installation name to display the Scripted Installation Detail page.
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On the left navigation pane, choose Deployments > Custom Deployments to display the Custom Deployments page. Then click a custom deployment name to display the Custom Deployments Detail page.
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Select the name of the scripted installation or the system image deployment to which you want to deploy the user states.
The Scripted Installation or the System Image Detail page displays.
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Under Installation Plan, move the Deploy User States Post-installation Task from the Available Post-installation Tasks column to the Run Post-installation Tasks column.
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Click Save.
The appliance rebuilds the scripted installation or the system image deployment.

Deploy user states to target devices manually

Deploy user states to target devices manually

When you scan a device and capture the user states to the KACE SDA, the USMT creates a .mig file, which contains the user states of the device. You can download and copy the .mig file from the appliance to any location on a target device that you want to update with the new user states.

The USMT ScanState utility performs the backup and generates the .mig file. The USMT LoadState utility performs the restore process using the .mig file. Running the LoadState utility in Administrator mode loads the user states to a target device.

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On the left navigation pane, click Library to expand the section, then click User States to display the User States page.
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Select a profile to display the User State Detail page.
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Click Download User State File.
The Opening USMT.MIG dialog box appears.
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Click Save File and save the file to any location.
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Copy the entire .mig file on to a target device.
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On the target device, create a local store, such as MyUserStates, with a subfolder named USMT, and copy the .mig file to the USMT folder.
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Run the loadstate.exe. on the USMT folder on the target device.

Use the following command-line options to deploy the user states:

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Local account: loadstate.exe StorePath /i:miguser.xml /i:migapp.xml /lac /lae
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Domain account: loadstate.exe StorePath /i:miguser.xml /i:migapp.xml
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