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DMM Template Editor

DMM Template Editor is a powerful, enterprise-level tool that helps you simplify the reuse of migration settings. You can create a migration template without being on the computer that is migrated because it is "detection-less."

Templates let you customize and automate migrations for the different departments in a company or for specific individuals or work groups. You can add migration selections to a template even if the specified applications and settings do not exist on the system that uses the migration.

You can define the migration of the source computer, and can define how the DNA in the DNA file that is created is applied to the destination computer in a single template file.

To create the template for this example, follow these steps:

1. Add a title and a description to the DNA files created with this template in the DNA file properties section.
2. Click Users branch to define users to migrate.

   Note: By default the current user setting are used. You do not have to select a user if you want to migrate the current user. If you want to migrate domain, Active Directory, or local users, select a category of user and then expand it to define users for migration.

   If you want to redirect users, click the Redirection tab. Expand the user tree, and double-click the Destination column to define the user destination.

3. Click System branch in the tree to display settings for your migration selection. Select the system settings that you want to migrate.
4. Click Applications branch in the tree to display application settings for your migration selection. Select the application settings that you want to migrate.

   Note: If you want to redirect any applications, click the Redirection tab and double-click the Destination column to define the application settings destination.

5. Click Files branch in the tree to display the local file system. Select the files that you want to migrate. If you select My Documents for migration, CA DMM selects the users' My Documents directory regardless of the operating system.

   Note: If you want to redirect any files or folders, click the Redirection tab and double-click the Destination column to define the file and folder destinations.

   For example: You can redirect the files and folders to a single location on the destination computer. Redirection supports the use of environmental and DMM variables in the paths. For more information about redirecting files, see the online help for DMM Template Editor.

6. Click Filters branch in the tree to define data filters. Define the data filters that you want to user for migration.

   Note: If you want to redirect a filter, click the Redirection tab and click the check box for Redirect to this folder. Enter the path to redirect the filter results.

7. Click Drive Destinations branch in the tree to define drive destinations for the migration.

   For example, your hard drive on the old system can be C:\ but the hard drive on the new system is D:\. You must redirect the drives. To redirect a drive, double-click the Destination column and define the drive destination.

8. Click the Save toolbar button to save the template file.

   A Save As dialog appears.

9. Click Save to accept the default location (C:\My Documents) and file name.
10. Close DMM Template Editor.

    Template Selection page of Director Setup appears.

11. Click Browse and select the template that you created.
12. Click Next.