What Is Novell Zenworks Personality Migration; Migrating User Accounts; Chapter 1, "What Is Novell Zenworks Personality Migration - Novell ZENWORKS 10 PERSONALITY MIGRATION - PERSONALITY MIGRATION REFERENCE 10.3 30-03-2010 Use And Installation Instructions

What Is Novell ZENworks
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Personality Migration?
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Novell ZENworks Personality Migration is part of the Novell ZENworks Configuration
Management product line.
A personality is a collection of applications and system settings that a user commonly uses on a
device. Typical settings can be desktop wallpaper, e-mail account settings, browser proxy settings,
files and folders, archived e-mails, Microsoft office templates, Microsoft Office macros, etc.
ZENworks Personality Migration provides a way to automate this process, both on a standalone
device or from a centrally managed console. The process significantly reduces the time and effort
required in setting up or reconfiguring a desktop for users. This is particularly useful while
provisioning new desktops and applications.
ZENworks Personality Migration allows you to store the personality of a Windows* user and
migrate the personality to another Windows user. For enterprise-scale migrations, you can use
ZENworks Configuration Management to distribute Directive bundles to store and apply personality
settings to the users.
The Personality Migration utility is provided with ZENworks Configuration Management. For more
information on installing the utility, see
page 11.
The utility allows you to:
Store the personality of one or more users on a Windows device to a compressed and password-
protected personality file.
Apply the personality settings from a personality file to a Windows desktop.
Directly migrate the personality data from the desktops of one or more users on a Windows
device to the users on another Windows device without any intermediate file, if the two devices
are interconnected.
Review the following sections:
Section 1.1, "Migrating User Accounts," on page 9
Section 1.2, "Migrating System Settings," on page 10
Section 1.3, "Migrating Applications," on page 10
Section 1.4, "Migrating Files and Folders," on page 10

1.1 Migrating User Accounts

ZENworks Personality Migration allows you to migrate the user profiles for the user who has logged
on to the device, or for multiple users. You can select the local users or domain users whose
personalities you want to migrate. You can also map the users to apply the personalities. You can
apply these personalities to a single user or multiple users.
Chapter 2, "Installing ZENworks Personality Migration," on

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