Exclude folders during capture and restore with USMT

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2014-04-04

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_{Friday, April 4, 2014 1:40 AM}

Hi,

As of now i am using default configuration for USMT to do capture and restore. Its USMT 5.0 (ADK 8.0)for xp -win7 and USMT 6.3 (ADK 8.1) for win7-win7. I want to exclude some folder during capture and restore. Can anyone point me to right direction which files to modify and how to use files with USMT once modified ?

Its a offline(Winpe) hardlink migration .

Any pointers will be appreciated. Thanks

Regards,

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_{Friday, April 4, 2014 7:46 PM ✅Answered}

yes and you can make it an unconditional exclude also, or conditional if that suits you better, (for example if C:\Data\Temp exists, then exclude it...)

here's some examples of that

<component type="Documents" context="System">
       <displayName _locID="miguser.userdata">Common Exclusions</displayName>
       <role role="Data">
           <rules>
               <unconditionalExclude>
                   <objectSet>
                       
                       
                       <pattern type="File">%CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES%\ [*]</pattern>
                       <pattern type="File">%CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILESX86%\ [*]</pattern>
                        <pattern type="File">%CSIDL_WINDOWS%\Media\ [*]</pattern>
                       <pattern type="File">C:\Drivers\[*]</pattern>
                       <pattern type="File">C:\MININT\[*]</pattern>
                   </objectSet>
               </unconditionalExclude>
           </rules>
       </role>
   </component>


       <component type="Documents" context="System">
       <displayName _locID="miguser.userdata">Conditional D Drive Exclusion</displayName>
       <role role="Data">
           <rules>
               <conditions>
                   <condition>MigXmlHelper.DoesObjectExist("File","D:\User State Migration Tool")</condition>
               </conditions>
               <unconditionalExclude>
                   <objectSet>
                       <pattern type="File">D:\ [*]</pattern>
                   </objectSet>
               </unconditionalExclude>
           </rules>
       </role>
   </component>
   <component type="Documents" context="System">
       <displayName _locID="miguser.userdata">Conditional E Drive Exclusion</displayName>
       <role role="Data">
           <rules>
               <conditions>
                   <condition>MigXmlHelper.DoesObjectExist("File","E:\User State Migration Tool")</condition>
               </conditions>
               <unconditionalExclude>
                   <objectSet>
                       <pattern type="File">E:\ [*]</pattern>
                   </objectSet>
               </unconditionalExclude>
           </rules>
       </role>
   </component>
   <component type="Documents" context="System">
       <displayName _locID="miguser.userdata">Conditional F Drive Exclusion</displayName>
       <role role="Data">
           <rules>
               <conditions>
                   <condition>MigXmlHelper.DoesObjectExist("File","F:\User State Migration Tool")</condition>
               </conditions>
               <unconditionalExclude>
                   <objectSet>
                       <pattern type="File">F:\ [*]</pattern>
                   </objectSet>
               </unconditionalExclude>
           </rules>
       </role>
   </component>

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_{Friday, April 4, 2014 9:59 AM}

Hi,

To do this, Modify the migration.xml files or create a custom.xml file ,use the <exclude> elements.

Example 2: How to migrate all files located in C:\Data except files in C:\Data\tmp

For more infomation, please review the link below:

Exclude Files and Settings

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560762(v=ws.10).aspx#Ex3

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_{Friday, April 4, 2014 12:32 PM}

If you look at the bottom of the MigUser.xml you will find some existing exclusion rules that you can examine and add your own there.

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_{Friday, April 4, 2014 2:23 PM}

hi ,

Thanks for reply. so for e.g. if i use :

<exclude>
             <objectSet>
                   <pattern type="File"> C:\Data\temp\* [*]</pattern>
             </objectSet>
         </exclude>

does that mean it will just exclude all files inside C:\Data\temp folder it will exclude subfolders as well inside temp? I want to exclude entire folder 'temp' including files and subfolders inside it. Thanks

Regards,

_{Friday, April 4, 2014 7:47 PM}

you can download a 'full' custom.xml file containing the snippet above from here

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_{Saturday, July 2, 2016 3:50 PM}

Good morning!

I have been using USMT for a while and I have just realized that mu Custom MigDos.xml doesnt apply the changes properly.

My main Goals is:

Capture everything on the user's profile
I would like to unconditionalExclude both folders "Google Drive" and "Dropbox".

I believe I succeeded in blocking the content of those two folders, however the folders remans in the profile.

In order to USMT avoid both fodlers and their content, I believe I have to change my script using some sort of wildcard.

THis is the portion I have on my MigDocs.xml

<component type="Documents" context="UserAndSystem">
<displayName>All Folders in UserProfileRoot but Dropbox</displayName>
<role role="Data">
<rules>
<unconditionalExclude>
<objectSet>
<pattern type="File">%CSIDL_PROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\ [*.ost]</pattern>
<pattern type="File">%CSIDL_PROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Lync\ [*]</pattern>
<pattern type="File">C:\Program Files\ [*]</pattern>
<pattern type="File">C:\Windows\ [*]</pattern>
<pattern type="File">%CSIDL_PROFILE%\Drop*\ [*]</pattern>
<pattern type="File">%CSIDL_PROFILE%\Google*\ [*]</pattern>
</objectSet>
</unconditionalExclude>
<include>
<objectSet>
<pattern type="File">%CSIDL_PROFILE%\* [*]</pattern>
</objectSet>
</include>
</rules>
</role>
</component>

Would you guys be able to tell me how I could achieve that?

THank you in advance.

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