Migrating Folders, Shared Folders, and Registries

Using the Tree View feature, you can select folders and registries that you want to add to the tethering process and copy them over to the destination machine during the migration progress. You can also select which shared folders you want to set up on the destination machine.

For information about shared folders, see https://virtamove.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VDOC/pages/311329628.

Using Tree View

1. Double-click the Administrative Console desktop shortcut icon on your desktop or click Start>VirtaMove>Administrative Console. VirtaMove Administrative Console opens.

2. Do one of the following:

   • Select an existing container and then go to step 3.
     OR

   • Create a new container. Click Application>Create Empty VAA. In the Create Empty VAA screen, enter the path to the container and then enter the name of the container. Click OK.

3. Click the Tether tab and enable Use Tether.

4. In the Source Name field, specify the IP address or name of the source machine you want to connect to. Specify only an Administrator account.

   • Alternatively, click the Query Network button to display a list of machines on your network, and then select a machine and click OK to populate the Source Name field. If a source machine has a VirtaMove Source Agent installed on it, the Remote Discovery window will display Yes in the Source Agent column. You can sort the list by selecting a column heading to sort by.
     
     If you specified a source machine that has a Source Agent installed on it, the Administrator Username field and the Administrator Password field are automatically filled in. A green check mark and "Source Agent" are displayed to the right of the Source Name field. Go to step 7.
     
     If you did not specify a source machine with a Source Agent, go to step 5.

5. In the Administrator Username field, type the username of the local administrator account on the source machine you specified in step 4. The default username is Administrator.

6. In the Administrator Password field, type the password of the local administrator account.

7. Click the Find Applications button. If credentials are valid, VirtaMove Tether retrieves all remote hives, applications, services, and user/group account information and displays this information in the tabs in the bottom half of the Administrative Console window. It may take some time for hives to migrate. To scroll through messages, click the Back or Forward button on the left or right of the message bar. If credentials fail or pre-requisites have not been met for tethering, an error message is displayed at the bottom of the Administrative Console window. You can view the Audit Report by clicking the Appliance Logs tab.

8. To migrate folders or shared folders, click the File Tree View tab and then click Scan Files to:

   • read through all fixed drives on the source machine

   • display the found directories in the left pane

   • display all user-created shared folders in the right pane

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9. To migrate registries, click the Registry Tree View tab, and then click Scan Registry. This reads through the remote registry hives that have been migrated to the destination machine and creates a node tree based on found keys.

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10. Select the directories, shared folders, and registry keys you want to tether and then click Save on each respective tab. Note that these files are added to the container and cannot be unselected or removed from the container after you click Save.
    
    If you click the Scan Files or Scan Registry button again, the feature will search the source machine and migrated registry hives again. Any detected changes will be applied to the tree views.
    
    If you want to add more nodes to the migration process, you can select and save nodes that are displayed in black font. Node trees persist, so if you switch containers or close the Administrative Console and return to the Tree View tabs later, the data will still be available.

11. Click the Tether tab and then click Pre-Populate. The saved directories, shared folders, and registry keys, as well any selected products, services, users, etc..., are migrated to the destination machine.