SOLVED Exclude folders from USMT

[Codi]

Hello,

I'm trying to use SCCM to upgrade clients from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and use USMT. There are two folders on the public desktop of the Windows 7 image I need to exclude in the MigUser.XML but I'm not sure how to string together the argument to exclude them.

The two folders are named "Office Apps" and "Resources". I thought this would work:

<exclude>
     <objectSet>
        <pattern type="File">C:\Users\*\desktop\Office Apps [*]</pattern>
        <pattern type="File">C:\Users\*\desktop\Resources [*]</pattern>
     </objectSet>
</exclude>

But when used in MigUser.xml is excluded everything. Please let me know how I can fix this!

 

[Codi]

I figured I could also delete the Resources and Office Apps folder before doing the capture. I tried a command line task with

del "%PUBLIC%\Desktop\Office Apps"

and it worked when I tried it in CMD on the computer, but not when I used it through OSD.

I tried a script I found, the script being:

# If you have other paths you need to delete just add more $path variables 
# and copy the If statements
$path = "C:\Users\Public\Desktop\"
# Checks if $path exists, if so deletes it and all subfolders and files
if (Test-Path $path) {
    
    $path + " Exists"
    Remove-Item -path $path -recurse
    Write-host -foregroundcolor Red $path " Deleted"
    [System.Threading.Thread]::Sleep(1500)
    
    } else {
    
    Write-host -foregroundcolor Red  $path  " Does not exist"
    
    }
# Checks if $path exists, if so deletes it and all subfolders and files
if (Test-Path $path2) {
    
    $path2 + " Exists"
    Remove-Item -path $path2 -recurse
    Write-host -foregroundcolor Red $path2 " Deleted"
    [System.Threading.Thread]::Sleep(1500)
    
    } else {
    
    Write-host -foregroundcolor Red  $path2  " Does not exist"
    
    }

I put that into a command step in the OSD as

"powershell.exe -command \\server\folder\sources\delete_files.ps1"

and it worked when used locally on the machine, but once again failed in when running the OSD.

 

[Prajwal Desai]

If the script worked locally, then probably it did not work correctly during OSD or it failed to run. The log file should reveal more info on this.

 

[Codi]

The script works locally immediately. I've had the OSD running for about 2 hours now and it's still on the deleting folder task - it has no completed or deleted the folder. Additionally, it's dumped absolutely no info into the smsts.log file. Attached is the picture of my current task sequence step. I know it works when executed on the machine manually. The OSD TS step is not working though. I deleted the contents of the SMSTS.log beforehand so I'd all be applicable to this OSD, it is currently empty after having run for 2 hours.

 

[Codi]

I tried this instead:

cmd.exe /c rmdir c:\yourdir /s /q

And it worked well. I suppose my initial del command, as well as the powershell just didn't pan out for me.

 

[Prajwal Desai]

Thanks for that. Marking this thread as Solved.