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Hi guys.. I'm a real newbie here so. first off HI I'm a tier 2 desktop support specialist for a small 300+ user organization. I am not the only tech guy at the office, but i am actively trying to make things easier for all of us by automating some of the tasks we use daily. I am constantly reimaging pc's, etc etc.. the next few months however, I will be upgrading all of our users to Windows 7 (from xp), and that means doing a LOT of copy/paste/settings, etc. now.. being in the low end of the "technical" world at our place, I don't get access to the servers ( i basically do just the grunt work), so SCCM is kind of out of the question for me :/, AND it is extremely unlikely I would get any of the top technicians to implement a solution that would make them do any thing that would add to their work (why would they)... I have come to read about using USMT, and it sounds exactly like the tool i would use to accomplish this .. If i could only automate it in some way. ( too many switches, commands, etc). I have found a tool called USMT XML Builder that I could use to build a self extracting executable file that would run and copy a set of predetermined settings, but I have been unable to make it work. this sounds PErfet.. if i could go to the winxp machine.. run the executable.. let it do its thing (backup).. and go back to the win7 and run the restore executable,, THAt right there would save me TONS of time.. that is.. if it worked :/ so far, I have not been able to make it work .. and i think the answer lies in the HTML this are the things I am trying to accomplish: *copy the entire "My documents" folder *copy the "favorites folder *copy the "desktop" folder" *copy all the *.pst files in the outlook folder *copy attached network printers *copy attached network drives sounds pretty straight forward.. I don't need any other settings.. just file backup. Now, my question to you all is a) could I setup a pseudo-server in my existing network to install sccm and automate this task ? (i should mention the switches here are configured manually and they DO not allow multicasting) could someone help me build an html that would work for USMT to do the tasks i mentioned earlier? If someone could help me get this going, I would be forever in your debt.. at the moment, I am just going into each machine and copying manually all those files, and there have been times were I miss the outlook files (thank god those machines were not wiped) I am willing to work for this help, but i think i'm out of my league trying to figure this out. Please be kind to respond, and thank you for your time. ps: i would donate a few pp bucks if need be