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JeremyChapmanMSFT
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May 30, 2018

When replacing PCs, how are you migrating files and settings from old to new PCs?

Trying to get a feel for what people are using for migrating the file contents from users' old PCs to their new PCs in large scale deployments (can be to Windows 10 or other versions).   What do ...
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wroot
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Jul 15, 2018
8. Email is in Exchange Online. Copy documents and old PST by hand. Plan to sync documents to OneDrive later.
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JeremyChapmanMSFT
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Jul 15, 2018

This sounds like it is the most common way - even for large enterprises - and some are using scripts or detailed command lines (copied from Notepad for example) that automatically copy desired locations and skip unwanted file types, etc. 

 

I'm kind of surprised that it scales to manually visit each desktop in PC replacement scenarios, since they might be 20-40% of PC's you'll move in the next 12-18 months. Would it save you time to have a sample script or command line(s) to repeat with physical desktop interaction, or would you still prefer manual copying?