User and Windows Easy Transfer

LAB 2

MIGRATING USER PROFILES

This lab contains the following exercises and activities:

Exercise 2.1 Creating User Profiles

Exercise 2.2 Installing Windows Easy Transfer on Windows Vista

Exercise 2.3 Collecting User Profile Data

Exercise 2.4 Importing User Profile Data

Exercise 2.5 Testing User Profiles

Lab Challenge 2.1 Migrating User Profiles over the Network

SCENARIO

A user calls the help desk for assistance because she is running two computers, one with Windows 7 and one with Windows Vista. She originally requested Windows 7 on her new computer to test the new operating system herself, but now her office mates, who share the computers, are interested in trying Windows 7 as well. Your user wants to transfer the other users’ accounts and documents from Windows Vista to Windows 7 so that they can each log on using their own names. You explain to her that she can use the Windows Easy Transfer utility to do this.

Estimated lab time: 70 minutes

Exercise 2.1
Creating User Profiles

Overview
In Exercise 2.1, you create and populate additional user profiles on

your Windows Vista installation in preparation for transferring them to

Windows 7 using Windows Easy Transfer.

Completion time
10 minutes

NOTE
Note

In a classroom lab environment, students should work with a partner so that they have one workstation running Windows Vista SP1 and one workstation that has been upgraded to Windows 7. In a virtual lab environment, each student will have three virtual machines, named RWDC01, NYC-CL1, and NYC-VS1.

1. Turn on NYC-VS1, your Windows Vista workstation, and log on using the contoso\Administrator account and the password Pa$$w0rd.

2. Click Start, and then click Control Panel > System and Maintenance > Administrative Tools. The Administrative Tools control panel appears.

3. Double click Computer Management. The Computer Management console