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Build—Prepare for Migration

The build stage requires you to be sure that you have the necessary information and setup required to execute the migration plan. Consider the following factors during this stage:

OS Editions

• Determine the editions of the target OS you want to install.
• Determine the OS edition you want to deploy on each group.
• Create OS images for the different OS editions in Client Automation.

Software Applications

• Identify the software applications that the entire organization uses.
• Identify the software applications that specific groups use.
• For the software applications that are not supported on the target OS, do the following:
  • Identify the version of the software application that is supported on the target OS.
  • Create a software package for the new application in DSM Explorer, if it does not already exist.
• If you want to replace any of the current software applications with a newer version, do the following:
  • Create a software package for the new software in DSM Explorer, if it does not already exist.
• Verify whether you have the software packages (in DSM Explorer) for all the software applications you identified.

User and Application Settings

• Identify the user and application settings you want to capture and migrate.
• Create migration solution packages using DMM Deployment Setup.

Computers and Groups

• Determine the naming convention for computer names on the new OS. For example, you may want to change the computer name from Comp1-XP to Comp1-Win7 after migrating to Windows 7.
• Create a machine mapping file that maps the old and new computer names.
• Determine how you want to group computers to assess better and migrate them. For example, you may want to group computers based on employee role, geography, computer model, and so on.
• Create computer groups to group computers that you want to migrate together. Perform this step only if the groups do not exist already.