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I'm working in a medium-sized company with arond 250 PCs. A few months ago, I set up a vbscript that runs Scanstate silently during log on for the purpose of capturing user profile/Windows settings, i.e., Office settings, Windows profile customizations, network drives, printer connections, ODBC connections, etc. While it's working just fine, and has saved us countless hours when rebuilding a user's PC, the .mig files that get created during scanstate are larger than we would like them to be and has caused space issues on our backup server since the file gets backed up (and we want to back up those .migs!). I've already created an XML file that scanstate calls on which excludes a few file extensions such as Office douments, zip archives, PDFs, audio files; however, I believe there are more files that are being captured that we can do without. I've also already excluded external drives from the capture. For our environment, we don't need Scanstate to capture any more than what is required to capture Windows settings, user profile settings, etc. We have backup software that takes care of backing up data. Any help is appreciated.

Hello, I'm trying to use USMT 5.0 in combination with MDT 2012. Everything is going well, the only thing that isn't working is placing the mig files on a share. If tried UserDataLocation=NONE UserDataLocation=NETWORK UserDataLocation=%UDShare%\%UDDir% But the migfiles are placed in c:\staterestore. It is not a access right problem because the logs are correctly written to the same share. I have to say that the storage for USMT files is not the same then the deploymentshare. Here is the full cumstomsettings.ini [settings] Priority=Default Properties=MyCustomProperty [Default] OSInstall=Y SkipBDDWelcome=YES SkipCapture=NO SkipCapture=YES SkipAdminPassword=YES SkipComputerBackup=YES SkipLocaleSelection=YES SkipTimeZone=YES SkipSummary=YES SkipFinalSummary=YES SkipAdminPassword=YES SkipBitLocker=YES SkipProductKey=YES EventService=http://SERVER:9800 ;Display task sequence running _SMSTSOrgName=Running %TaskSequenceID% on %OSDComputername% ;Deployment logs SLShareDynamicLogging=\\hlpdskha\MDT\OS\%OSDComputerName% ;BDDWelcome UILanguage=en-US KeyboardLocale=fr-BE;080c:0000080c UserLocale=fr-BE TimeZone=105 TimeZoneName=Romance Standard Time ;AdminPassword AdminPassword=********** ;DriverManagement DriverGroup001=%Make%\%Model% ;Domain Settings SkipDomainMembership=YES JoinDomain=DOMAIN DomainAdmin=USER DomainAdminDomain=DOMAIN DomainAdminPassword=********* ;ComputerBackup ScanStateArgs=/ue:*\* /ui:tsc\* /v:13 /o /c LoadStateArgs=/v:13 /c /lac SLShare=\\hlpdskha\MDT\USMT\Logs UDShare=\\hlpdskha\MDT\USMT\Files UDDir=%OSDComputerName% UserDataLocation=%UDShare%\%UDDir% USMTMigFiles001=MigUser.xml USMTMigFiles002=MigDocs.xml SkipAppsOnUpgrade=YES Can anyone tell me where it goes wrong