Create a Windows User State Migration Drive

Owned by Terrence S Miller
Last updated: Mar 16, 2022
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These instructions detail how to prepare a user state migration drive for for Windows. 

Step-by-step guide

Note that you need the following in order to follow these steps:

  • Blank USB drive: This can be a thumb drive or a USB hard drive. The drive should have adequate size to back up the user profiles on computers you plan to rebuild.
  • Platform as a Service Windows administrator account:The account to use should be the one you use to have local administrator permissions on Windows Platform as a Service systems in your organization.
  1. Log on to Windows using your PaaS Windows administrator account.
  2. Attach and mount the blank USB Drive.
  3. Map a drive letter to \\umroot\mws\support\EUCMigrate\EUCMigrateVersions
    1. From a Mac, the path smb://usm.m.storage.umich.edu/usm/EUCMigrateVersions may be used.
  4. Copy Updater.exe to the blank USB drive.
  5. On the USB drive, right-click Updater.exe and select "Run as Administrator" to launch the EUC Updater utility.
  6. In the EUC Updater tool, select the Production version of Documentation and click "Download and Make Active". This will install the USM component on the 
  7. Repeat the selection of the Production version and "Download and Make Active" steps for the EUCMigrate and USMT components. 
  8. Click Exit to close the EUC Updater tool.