Deployment and Imaging Group

For many companies, it appears to be a bit complex to do an in-place migration from WinXP 32-Bit to Win7 64-Bit thru the DS and staying hardware indipendent, so here's how we do it for around 2 years now all around the globe with great success.

Attached the outline of the DS migration events including scripts and tasks. A few notes beforehand so that there are no misunderstandings in why certain tasks are executed:

• Our environment contains quite a number of DS servers with one or more remote PXE servers attached;
• Each of the PXE servers runs a mirrored file structure for core files required for imaging/migration and that is why we map the G:\ drive as additional drive always to the PXE Server;
• We use a WinPE 3 that boots off the client and is loaded into RAM as we so also have a recovery console on the client machine imemdiately.
• The process is - same as the imaging process - HII designed. The used VBS I call for the driver copy task is also attached as a Drivers.TXT. **NOTE: We use core hardware across all of International, so the vendor list is short for us...

I'm very small minded and so the process could surely be improved in many places, so please feel free to comment and feedback, which I always appreciate a lot.

Thanks,

-BBC