2. Technopulse Solutions is a leading IT service provider company that has multiple Windows users at its Head Office. Recently, due to the new project requirement, the company needs to implement the latest version of the Windows operating system in the desktops. However, the management wants to retain the existing user settings and applications. As the IT Head of the organization, you need to fulfill the requirements of the company in a costeffective and reliable manner. What will you do to achieve the same? Experiment To meet the preceding requirements, you need to perform the following tasks: Identify the solution and its reason. Identify the migration scenarios. Identify the steps for performing a migration.

The solution and its reason

Steps for Performing a Migration
A migration replaces a computer's current configuration with a new one by selectively migration portions
of its previous configuration
1. Source and destination computer
2. Collect user state.
3. Restore user state
4. Intermediate store

The migration scenarios.
1. Want a standardiroment for all users running Windows. A migration takes advantage of a clean installation.
   A clean installation ensures that all of your systems begin with the same configuration, and that all
   application, file, and setting are reset. Migration ensures that you can retain user setting and deta.
2. Have storege space to store the user state. Typically, you will need storege space to store the user
   state when performing migration. USMT introduces hard-link migration, in which you do not need extra storege
   space. This is only application to wipe and migration.
3. Plan to replace exxisting computer hardwere. If you do not to replace the existing computers, you can still
   perform a migration by doing a wipe and load migration.


The steps for performing a migration.
Typical steps in a migration scenario include:

1. Back up the computer’s entire hard disk. Similar to an in-place upgrade, you can use the built-in
   Windows backup, a third-party backup program, or disk-imaging software.
2. Save user settings and data for migration. In one-off scenarios, you can use the Windows Easy
   Transfer (WET) feature that was introduced in Windows 7 to save your user settings. When you
   perform a migration on multiple computers, you can potentially save time by using the USMT, to
   customize the migration of data and save exactly the settings that you want to migrate.
3. Perform a clean installation of Windows 8. Run setup.exe, the Windows 8 installation program, and
   select Custom. The Custom option allows you to install Windows 8 on a partition that already has an
   operating system, such as earlier Windows versions.
   After the installation is done, the earlier Windows version is placed in a folder called Windows.old,
   along with the previous Program Files and Documents and Settings folders.
   Run setup.exe from the product DVD or from a network share. Alternatively, you can choose to
   format the partition by using a disk-management tool, such as Diskpart.exe, before performing a
   clean installation.
4. Reinstall applications. Before restoring your user settings and files, reinstall all applications so that
   migration will also restore application settings.
5. Restore user settings and data. You can use the same tool to restore user settings and data that you
   used to save them in Step 2. In addition, you can automate the migration process so that users do not
   have to interact with it.