SCCM 2012 R2 - Refresh scenario from Windows 7 to Windows 7

[Tof006]

Hi all,

I'm trying to do a refresh (in-place upgrade) of a Windows 7 to a Windows 7.

My problem is that it assigns a C letter to the BDEDrive and a D letter to the system drive.

I've overcome this problem using a Diskpart /s xxx.txt that removes the letter assigned to Disk 0 Vol 1 and assigns the C letter to Disk 0 vol 2.

My problem is that my USMT data in StateStore directory are wiped along with the C drive....

Secondly, when the computer is finally upgraded, it affects a D letter to BDEDrive.

 

Has anyone been successful in performing an MDT TS that performs an in-place update of a computer from Windows 7 to Windows 7 with USMT and Hardlinks ?

Thanks for your help

[damonj]

Not sure if this will help or not but try adding a step in your MDT TS which sets the OSDPreserverDriveLetter to True and a step directly after this which sets the OSDisk variable to c:

 

I have uploaded some screen shots of where I have these steps in my MDT TS. I am running this TS to refresh XP to Win 7 so I'm not sure if having these steps will resolve your problem.

[Tof006]

Hi

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try this today.

At the moment, in my current TS, the OSDPreserveDriveLetter is set to False and I'm using it to refresh from XP to 7 without any letter problem.

According to my readings, OSDPreserveDriveLetter was mainly meant to not set the letter D when deploying a WIM (Letter that MS is using by default in the original WIM).

But I'll test and let you know the result.

Thanks

 

EDIT : I've just tested your suggestion and it doesn't work...

Thanks anyway

[anyweb]

are you using MDT only or Configuration Manager with MDT integrated ? if the latter then have you seen this yet, it does refresh scenario no problem.

[joengelhart]

are you using MDT only or Configuration Manager with MDT integrated ? if the latter then have you seen this yet, it does refresh scenario no problem.

 

Hi I am trying to do a simple refresh from windows 7 to windows 7. Is there a simple guide for this? I want to be able to run it from PXE boot and reimage computers as well as preserve and restore the files. Any ideas? Thanks

[anyweb]

see the link i posted above, there's no simple way to do a refresh as it involves capturing users data either locally (hardlinking) or using a remote store (state migration point) before wiping the hard disc and installing the OS then restoring the data.

[joengelhart]

see the link i posted above, there's no simple way to do a refresh as it involves capturing users data either locally (hardlinking) or using a remote store (state migration point) before wiping the hard disc and installing the OS then restoring the data.

 

Hello,

 

I have a state migration point and have been using it to go from Computer A to Computer B but I cannot get it to go from Computer A back to Computer A after reimaging. I am using System Centers TS to do this. See picture: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2j3la21&s=8#.U_tUHvmwLYg

Any help would be great!

 

Thanks

[Peter van der Woude]

That looks like a default task sequence and that should be fine for a computer-refresh. For an outline of the process, see: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh397289.aspx#BKMK_CaptureRestoreUserStateWorkflows

[joengelhart]

Hi the issue is its not working. The computer captures the data reimages but then doesn't restore the data.

[anyweb]

well are you sure the data is captured, what do your scanstate.log and loadstate.log tell you ?

[joengelhart]

Hello, I'm finally back at this. I do not see a scanstate.log or loadstate.log? When I run the TS it goes through the process of backing up the files like it would if I was going from computer A to computer B. Somehow when I try to go from computer A to computer A it never tries to load the files that it backed up after imaging. Does someone have a TS of what this looks like? I just want to be able to "refresh" a windows 7 computer. My preference would be to backup to a network location and restore from a network location only because local migration has not proved to work everytime. Any help would be great.

 

Thanks

 

SCCM 2012R2