AaronBISSELL Posted July 2, 2014 Report post Posted July 2, 2014 Hello Windows Noob community! This community has helped me build our company's production deployment system - so I just want to say thanks for that first! Now I am hoping it come come through for me yet once again... So I have a beautifully working USMT backup task sequence that backs up a full user state to a network share which can then be used during the imaging process to restore the backup to a new PC. It works great! What I am wondering now.... is there a way to use that backup to restore a user state to an already existing imaged PC? Ex: We have a stockpile of 10-12 PCs imaged and ready to go... Joe Shmoe's PC is about to die so we run the USMT backup on it, grab his user state... Is there a way to apply that user state to one of the stored PCs without re-imaging it? I try to just double click the .mig file and use the windows easy transfer wizard but it fails 100% of the time... not sure if it's because of how the imaging process backs up the data? Is it possible to create a task sequence that just asks if you'd like to restore data? Thanks in advance for any assistance! AaronBISSELL Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyweb Posted July 2, 2014 Report post Posted July 2, 2014 you can restore data backed up via USMT using this task sequence (Configuration Manager 2012 R2) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronBISSELL Posted July 2, 2014 Report post Posted July 2, 2014 This task sequence will restore the back during the imaging process yes? Or am I looking at it wrong? I currently have a process that does that. I am looking for simplest way to restore a .MIG that was created with MDT USMT to a computer, without re-imaging it... Can it be done? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyweb Posted July 2, 2014 Report post Posted July 2, 2014 look at the task sequence it contains restore sections which you can rip out and use to 'restore' your stuff. No need to re-image if that's what you want Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
