No, what I said, and I repeat, is that being in an Enterprise means that you have to deploy and migrate and upgrade with discipline. If you allow your users to put data "just anywhere" and store p0rn and music and videos and whatever else - then the fact that the toolkit will trim that data is YOUR FAULT - not the fault of the toolkit.
The Windows 7 Resource Kit and the Windows 8 Resource Kit and all the various blogs by Michael Niehaus tell you, in detail, why they did it this way and the proper ways to use the toolkit. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Klaus Hartnegg Sent: Monday, July 25, 2016 10:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] User State Migration Tool: copy all Effectively you also say that using this tool usually means losing data. What would be the disadvantage of rewriting the XML files such that it copies ALL of appdata\roaming? Could this cause any problems? Maybe not the directories which were created by Windows, i.e. Microsoft, Adobe, Media Center Programs, and Identities, but everything else. How can it be told to copy ALL shortcuts from the Desktop, not just the ones whose targets are reachable while loadstate is running? Currently it omits all shortcuts to server directories. I could mount some of them during loadstate, but not the home directories of all users simultaneously all on the same drive letter, and I do not want to load the user profiles one by one.
