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You are working with a team that will be bringing in new computers to a sales department at a company. The sales team would like to keep not only their old files, but system settings as well on the ne

The correct answer is D. Use the User State Migration tool to move the system settings and files to the new machines.. The User State Migration Tool (USMT) is the correct Microsoft-provided utility for transferring user files and system settings to new computers.

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You are working with a team that will be bringing in new computers to a sales department at a company. The sales team would like to keep not only their old files, but system settings as well on the new PC's. What should you do?

Options

  • AUse the Disk Management tool to move everything to the new computer.
  • BCopy the files and the Windows Registry to a removable media then copy it onto the new machines.
  • CDo a system backup (complete) on each old machine, then restore it onto the new machines.
  • DUse the User State Migration tool to move the system settings and files to the new machines.

How the community answered

(27 responses)
  • A
    4% (1)
  • B
    19% (5)
  • C
    7% (2)
  • D
    70% (19)

Why each option

The User State Migration Tool (USMT) is the correct Microsoft-provided utility for transferring user files and system settings to new computers.

AUse the Disk Management tool to move everything to the new computer.

Disk Management is a utility for creating, formatting, and managing disk partitions and volumes - it has no capability to migrate user data or system settings between computers.

BCopy the files and the Windows Registry to a removable media then copy it onto the new machines.

Manually copying the Windows Registry to removable media and importing it onto new hardware is unreliable and can cause instability, as registry hives contain hardware-specific paths and GUIDs that will not match the new machines.

CDo a system backup (complete) on each old machine, then restore it onto the new machines.

A full system backup restore onto different hardware can cause driver conflicts and activation issues because it duplicates the entire OS image including hardware-specific configurations from the old machine.

DUse the User State Migration tool to move the system settings and files to the new machines.Correct

USMT (User State Migration Tool) is specifically designed by Microsoft to capture user accounts, files, operating system settings, and application settings from a source machine and apply them to a destination machine, making it the correct and supported solution for this scenario.

Concept tested: Windows User State Migration Tool (USMT) for PC migration

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/usmt/usmt-overview

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#USMT#system migration#Windows Registry#file migration

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