Task Sequence - simple script to associate computers (USMT capture direct to new PC

[BenM]

Hello There,

 

I have been trawling the interweb for simple script to insert into our OSD, where or deployment techs can enter details for creating the computer association of Old/Source PC and the New/Destination PC. The script would then query SCCM for resouceID's and create the associations, as well as making the 2 inputs available as TS variables. I have been trying this, by merging various scripts I found (My scripting is hit and miss at best):

 

http://verbalprocessor.com/2011/03/06/computer-association-script/ - does what I want, but using a file to import the data, and only runs from the SCCM server.

http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2011/12/06/vbscript-for-computer-association-with-logging/ - also does what i want, but uses script arguments, and no computer to resourseID resolving.

http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/5227-vbscript-and-hta-to-associate-computer-and-add-to-specific-collections/ - again, part of this seems, but I don't seem to be able to get it too work.

 

High level I want to achive an offline capture of XP data, and save this directly to the new Win7 PC (Which would already be built) and then run the restore from the new PC. I realise SMP is the preferred method, however alot of our child sites have very little storage available, effectively using SMP - and I assume transfering the data directly to the new PC is faster. This is the inspiration: https://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2011/09/01/replace-scenario-alternative-for-usmt-migration.aspx

 

If anyone knows of any resources that they have used sucessfully (or examples of this being achieved) it would be great to hear about them.