As many other companies, we are at the stage when we are almost ready to migrate our client PCs and end users to Windows 7.

In this short article I will try to explain why we decided to use USMT to achieve the desired result.

Tools and resources

I assume that you know what USMT is and understand how to use it and it’s limitations.

If this is the first time you hear about USMT, I strongly recommend referring to Microsoft TechNet first.

Below are the tools and resources I found very helpful while working with USMT

USMT 4 TechNet resources

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560801%28WS.10%29.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560781%28WS.10%29.aspx

USMT 4 for...

You've searched the Forums looking for discussions that might answer the issues that plague you. Here is a list of the most visited forum discussions over the past year, maybe there's one here that you've overlooked...

25 Most Viewed Forum Discussions for 2010

1. Windows 7 and Ghost
2. Bootable USB Flash Drive
3. Dell Latitude E6410 issues booting into Ghost
4. Altiris DS & Windows 7
5. Dell Latitude E6510 with Intel 82577LM NIC not working
6. Windows 7 + Ghost not working
7. Output error...

You may have been searching for some of these nifty little scripts and helpful little drivers yourself. Here are the most view downloads for the past year. I hope you are finding these posts interesting!

25 Most Viewed Downloads for 2010

1. Remote Altiris Agent Diagnostics
2. SATA Drivers for Intel ICH9 and ICH10
3. SATA ICH9 Drivers: Windows XP Driver Injection Script
4. MSI "Run as administrator" Context Menu for Vista
5. Uninstall MSI with VBScript
6. Script to Copy Files/Folders to All the User...

Here are some of the interesting characteristics of the new xml file.

First of all the SIM version bumped from 7.0.52 to 7.0.64. Its MD5 hash is 0562c0db3a754f3fb56faaaae7ead49b.

Then we have a major additions that should interested the Connect community: 

• Altiris Client Management Suite SP2 MR3, version 7.0.14

Here are some of the solutions updated:

• Altiris Patch Management Solution for Linux SP2 MR3
• Altiris Deployment Solution Core MR3 (v7.1.643)
• Altiris Software Management Solution SP2 MR3
• Altiris Asset Management MR3
• Altiris IT Management Suite MR3
• and so on

Now it will be very interesting to see how all of this installs and behave. I'm specially awaiting for a Software Management fix of the Symantec Management Agent that fails to download modified package files...