Scenario

Start screen is the form of Start menu in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. During migration of user profile, you may need Start Screen layout or Personalize settings migrated as well. This article describes the specific component settings related to these two features in customized config.xml file when using USMT to migrate user profile.

Enviroments

• Windows 8/8.1
• User State Migration Tool (USMT) 5.0 is included with the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) for Windows 8.
• Shared folder for storing the results of scanstate.exe
• Shared folder for storing USMT tool.

Commands to be used

• scanstate /i:miguser.xml \\Shared_Store /ue:*\* /ui:domain\domain_account    Note: Just transfer one needed domain account profile.
• scanstate /i:miguser.xml /genconfig:config.xml /v:13    Note: Generate the config.xml file for customization. Please refer to USMT .xml Files to learn more about config.xml.
• Loadstate \\Shared_Store /config:config.xml /i:miguser.xml  /ue:*\* /ui:domain\domain_account    Note: Load the profile gathering from scanstate command refer to this config.xml after customizing the config.xml.

Note: Please refer to LoadState Syntax and ScanState Syntax to learn more about the following commands.

Open the config.xml file and locate to the component and corresponding part:

• To determine if to migrate Start Screen layout or not , change the migrate value for this:

<component displayname="Microsoft-Windows-shmig" migrate="yes" ID="http://www.microsoft.com/migration/1.0/migxmlext/cmi/microsoft-windows-shmig/microsoft-windows-shmig/settings"/>

• To determine if to migrate Start Screen Personalize settings or not, change the migrate value for this:

<component displayname="Microsoft-Windows-uxtheme" migrate="yes" ID="http://www.microsoft.com/migration/1.0/migxmlext/cmi/microsoft-windows-uxtheme/microsoft-windows-uxtheme/settings"/>