Move user profile data and settings to Azure user accounts

[nlinecomputers]

I just downloaded the latest build which is dated July 4th 2022.

 

[nlinecomputers]

ForensIT products are not maintained anymore. Now Windows 11 version, no development or support available

Not what their website says. https://www.forensit.com/domain-migration.html
That link directly mentions Windows 11

 

[Sky-Knight]

What are you trying to move?

If it's user's files, all of that should be in Onedrive already. Just having them login to a new account will get them Outlook, files, and such all automatically. So what's left?

The profile should be disposable! ForensIT is cool stuff, but you one shouldn't need it.

 

[sbabic]

I just downloaded the latest build which is dated July 4th 2022.

Sorry, had to dig up where I read it:

User profile migration - PC replacements

New management is upping security and will go 100% Windows 11 (currently mixed Win 8.1/10) This means I will be reinstalling approximately 200 PCs and replacing roughly 600 (HP, ordered in in batches) To save time for users I want their “user experience” over on the new OS. Got SCCM up and...

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Comment from Jonathan Johnson

Never used any of their apps though, as I originally was after an Azure migration product
Ended up using USMTGUI for the Azure job and mostly their User Profile Central for Domain/Domain migrations
Just great not having to physically access the old PC to pick up the user for the new PC.

 

[sbabic]

What are you trying to move?

If it's user's files, all of that should be in Onedrive already. Just having them login to a new account will get them Outlook, files, and such all automatically. So what's left?

The profile should be disposable! ForensIT is cool stuff, but you one shouldn't need it.

I definitely do not agree (I'm an old school supporter)..

To save time for users (and techs helping users setting up things) I want their "user experience" over on the new PC/OS.
A lot of things are missing like Theme settings, Explorer recent files and quick-links but especially browser favorites, browser cached logins etc.
- Also often catch files like local databases outside the users profile (slow when on onedrive)

However i use USMTGUI and User Profile Central for migrations over LAN.
Works like a charm, also from Win 10 to 11

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Prior to Edge, I pushed clients to use Google Chrome..and they'd sign in, that syncs already. But since is now Chromium based, the users Microsoft account already catches that also...so saved bookmarks, passwords, settings, extensions, etc...all auto come over.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Yep, New Edge syncs all their browser specific stuff into their Onedrive along with everything else.

The ONLY THING I ever have to help users with after a full M365 merge is default printers. Users can set their own wall papers quickly, and don't much care about "time saved" because it's a right click operation.

The only thing I still hold hands for is MFA enrollment.

I haven't migrated a profile in years, and I'm not about to start now. Usually causes far more problems than it saves.

 

[Thomas Ehler]

Yep, New Edge syncs all their browser specific stuff into their Onedrive along with everything else.

The ONLY THING I ever have to help users with after a full M365 merge is default printers. Users can set their own wall papers quickly, and don't much care about "time saved" because it's a right click operation.

The only thing I still hold hands for is MFA enrollment.

I haven't migrated a profile in years, and I'm not about to start now. Usually causes far more problems than it saves.

Agree to a large extend.
However you'd be surprised if checking out how many companies does not use OneDrive.
To many that is a very large cost and also a LOT of companies has one Tech doing everything. 365 transition is not a finger snap..

Again at many companes and especially Universities, users are a very diverse group, using tonnes of strange software and still are local admins.
They scatter data in wrong places locally on their PC's and for research units it is mostly the Tech being the one making sure they do not loose anything. It can be quite nerve wrecking handling a Professors PC.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Agree to a large extend.
However you'd be surprised if checking out how many companies does not use OneDrive.
To many that is a very large cost and also a LOT of companies has one Tech doing everything. 365 transition is not a finger snap..

Again at many companes and especially Universities, users are a very diverse group, using tonnes of strange software and still are local admins.
They scatter data in wrong places locally on their PC's and for research units it is mostly the Tech being the one making sure they do not loose anything. It can be quite nerve wrecking handling a Professors PC.

Yes, I agree it happens. And it's WRONG. Endpoints must be disposable, because they are lost, stolen, damaged, or otherwise brought to an early demise all the time. This is triple true of any mobile devices. Cloud based file storage is one of the only reasonable answers, and the user needs trained to put all important stuff in there. Onedrive makes it easy for Windows endpoints, but it's far from the only option. Onedrive aimed at Sharepoint adds versioning too, which is BONKERS powerful! But it is also, not the only solution.

Anything less invites a train wreck, that sure... we're paid to clean up. But that's why I'm so hard on this line, why I will not ever tolerate anyone being flippant about not maintaining it. Because you're either pushing for a solution that protects your clients, or you're pushing for a solution that simply pads your wallet. I'm fundamentally hostile to the latter, and I always will be so.

In this business in many ways we must be in the business of putting ourselves out of business. Anything less is patently dishonest at best, utterly unethical at worst.

 

[JanineMarchese]

Would hate not having User Profile central for sure. CUDOS to Thomas Ehler for maintaining USMT (What Microsoft should do really)