Managing User Profiles

Unless you are performing a direct upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7 or one that uses roaming user profiles, any Windows 7 deployment requires that you have a plan for moving user profile data from the user's previous computer to the new computer. Getting user data such as e-mail messages and Web browser bookmarks properly transferred is as important to take into account when performing a Windows 7 deployment as getting the right hardware platform on which to run the operating system. If you cannot get all the users' data that was on their old computers on to their new computers, they may not be able to do their jobs. Users also feel less intimidated by a new operating system if all their old operating system preferences are in effect from the moment they first log on. The more comfortable users are with a new operating system, the more favorably they will look on the transition. In this lesson, you learn how to migrate user data from previous versions of Windows, or from an existing installation of Windows 7, to a new installation of Windows 7.