Windows Easy Transfer Tool

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  1. alexdc12

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    What are your views on this? Have you had any problems with it before?
    What my situation is, I am currently renewing PC's at work and spend a lot of time at users desk setting up email, printers and various settings. With this tool i need not do that. it seems too good to be true!
    Please let me know how you have got on with it.

    cheers
     
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  2. Johnd76

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    I have used it on my computers at home with no complaints
     
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  3. Apexes

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    We only use it for XP to Win 7 migration, has worked fine previously.

    Other than that we use OSD and capture user state for win7 - win7 rebuilds
     
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    I've only used the previous version (fast) for xp in a production environment, when migrating users from one pc to another. worked fine for me It gives you a consistant profile migration which whilst you can do it manually you may forget things like copying the desktop across printers etc.

    In short it worked well for me and I liked liked it because I didn't have to think that much about it.
     
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  5. ThomasMc

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    Only used it once for Win7 Desktop to Win7 Laptop and worked flawlessly, did exactly what I expected and more
     
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    Works great except if Outlook has an exchange account. We've found that in those cases we've had to re-setup outlook again on the new machine. However with POP3/IMAP accounts it's fine.

    -Ken
     
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  7. alexdc12

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    We use exchange, and it transferred that over fine.
    Had 1 today that would not connect to the new one tho :( but still im liking it, all the builds im doing are win7 from XP so its nice i can copy mapped drives, printers, files, desktop and only worry about configuring cad and stuff.
    Ill keep going with it i think and see how i get on
     
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  8. Kitkatninja
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    It's pretty good :)

    -Ken
     
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  9. ThomasMc

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    I'm sure AutoCAD have a migration tool also, have a look over at there site.
     
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  10. DryPlate

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    You should look into sysprep and having pre-configured configurations or images. Windows 7 has a lot of options to speed system deployment up.
     
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  11. alexdc12

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    to be fair the cad is quite easy to do :D
     
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  12. alexdc12

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    we already use sysprep but each user is so diferent so hard to ahve one image
     
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