Your organization has decided to upgrade fifty of their workstations from Windows XP to Windows 7, and you’d like to find an automated way to seamlessly move all user files and settings from one operating system to another. Which of these methods would meet this requirement?
A) Files and Settings Transfer Wizard
B) Windows Easy Transfer
C) User State Migration Tool
D) Upgrade Advisor
E) Buy a really big hard drive and dump everything in there. Once the migration is complete, have your users poke around the drive and pull out any files that they might recognize.
The answer: C) User State Migration Tool
The User State Migration Tool allows you to automate the migration of user files and settings between systems with a series of command-line parameters. Although the Windows XP Files and Settings Transfer Wizard and the Windows Vista Windows Easy Transfer can also accomplish these migration tasks, their graphical front-end doesn’t scale when a large number of computers are involved.
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