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attach your smsts.log file from the attempt and we'll check it out, my guess is you didn't add any network drivers for your specific hardware to your boot.wim file and got no ip address which then meant the task sequence failed and it rebooted eventually to a blank harddisc or you are missing the network driver in the apply driver package step, but to be sure we need the smsts.log file, pressing F8 after enabling command prompt support in your boot images will help this.

i dont see any scanstate or loadstate log files atttached above... however from the small bit of smsts.log file you posted theres the following error which means that a file (or files) are still on the hard disc (probably somewhere in the old users profile) that could not be deleted prior to applying the new os, therefore the installation failed, you'll need to examine the logs to find out what files are causing the issue.

as per my post above

great stuff :-)

are you saying that you had permission issues on a destination share causing the error above ? if so what share (was it the capture directory ?) and what permissions did you change ? i still think based on the screenshot above that it was ip address/dns related so would like more info about your troubleshooting

as Peter says, the only way to find out what is working or not with your migration is to examine the scanstate.log and loadstate.log files generated by USMT

maybe you only put the drivers in one of the boot images and not the other, i'd recommend you only add the drivers you NEED to the boot images you are using, to find out which driver you need see this post please http://www.niallbrady.com/2011/08/31/missing-nic-driver-in-winpe-boot-image-no-problem/

are you using a legacy network card on the virtual machine settings ?

yup without a boundary and without the boundary being in a boundary group your clients cannot find their dp's, so you've solved your own problem Ben :-)

how much RAM is in the machine ?

why not just uninstall the dp role, wait, then reinstall it

are you checking from the top most site in your heirarchy ? or is it a standalone server ?

i think you are missing part of the log file, check in x:\windows\temp\smstslog

how are you initiating client push to the client ? post your exact steps.

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did you enable client push ?

try usmtutils.exe http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560752%28WS.10%29.aspx

are you sure you are using the right boot image ? have you tried pressing F8 and running the HTA using mshta.exe bla.hta ?

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have you looked at this post yet ? using Configuration Manager 2012 RC in a LAB - Part 14. Performing a side-by-side Migration from Configuration Manager 2007 Part 14. Performing a side-by-side Migration from Configuration Manager 2007.

you really need to find the smsts.log file, have you checked in x:\windows\temp\smstslog ? what point does it fail at ?

the process of capturing an image run's sysprep which in essence reverts windows to a 'default' state, you should really only be capturing images on Virtual hardware, have you tried that ?

yes, choose the Dashboard report in the Endpoint Protection category, then select Antimalware Policy application status on computers, and drill further into that report by clicking on the graph itself

sure, but first you must understand that the Antimalware Policy and Client settings for Endpoint Protection are two separate things and they are 'picked up' by the client when it does its' normal machine policy as defined in the site's (or collection) Client policy which is one of many settings you can define for Client settings. By default this value is 60 minutes, in other words you have to wait one hour for the policy to get retrieved from it's management point, you can speed this up by manually going to the client and opening up the configuration manager client agent in control panel and clicking on the actions tab and running a machine policy retrieval, or you can target Custom Client Settings with a client policy set to update every 5 minutes to a collection where you want machines to update their policy quickly,whatever you do above once the client retrieves it's policy from the management point it will apply the necessary changes and in Endpoint Protection terms if it was a custom antimalware policy you can verify on the SCEP client itself by clicking on the downward pointing arrow in the help screen and see when the policy was last applied by clicking on About System Center Endpoint Protection to see what the Policy Name is and when it was applied if you want to verify changes to your Antimalware policy right now then change something in it's name (add some square brackets or a full stop) and then do a machine policy update on the client, as you can see the policy change has been noticed..

those SQL port policies are for the Configuration Manager servers that are hosting SQL server so that they can replicate to each other.