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Migrating to Vista using User State Migration Tool 3.0
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
This article walks you through how to use User State Migration Tool 3.0 (USMT 3.0) to migrate 
Windows XP desktop computers to Windows Vista in an enterprise environment. In a previous article here on WindowsNetworking.com titled Migrating to Vista Using Windows Easy Transfer we looked at how you can migrate user accounts, files and program settings from an existing computer running Windows XP to a freshly installed new computer running Windows Vista.
Windows Easy Transfer is a lightweight tool however that is really only useful for migrations involving a handful of desktop computers, for example a small business with a network of ten machines or a home user wanting to replace their old XP box with a brand new Vista-ready machine. Enterprises however need a more robust tool for performing migrating user settings, and User State Migration Tool (USMT) is Microsoft’’s answer to their needs.
USMT was designed for migrating user settings when upgrading or migrating desktop versions of Windows in a domain environment. USMT 1.0 was originally developed to migrate Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0 Workstation machines to Windows 2000 Professional. USMT 2.0 through 2.6 extended this to support migrating Windows 2000 Professional and earlier platforms to Windows XP Professional, and also supported XP to XP migrations. USMT 3.0, which is currently in beta at the time of writing this article, is designed to migrate Windows 2000 Professional SP4 and later to Windows XP SP2 and later. In other words, using USMT 3.0 you can migrate:
* Windows 2000 Professional SP4 to Windows XP SP2
* Windows 2000 Professional SP4 to Windows Vista
* Windows XP SP2 to Windows Vista
You can also use USMT 3.0 to migrate from x86 to x64 versions of these platforms and vice versa, and it supports all editions of XP and Vista as well excepting Starter Editions. USMT does not support migrating Windows server operating systems. Migrating to Vista using User State Migration Tool 3.0
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