Creating the Desktop DNA Template

Each customer will have specific requirements for his or her personality migration. It is outside the scope of this guide to define the various implications and parameters for each migration.

The main factors that will drive the complexity and, ultimately, the size and scope of the personality migration, are whether the legacy environment is well managed, whether the customer has an existing Standard Operating Environment (SOE), how many laptops and remote users are part of the migration project, and how much data is stored locally on workstations as opposed to network storage.

For complete, detailed information about Desktop DNA ZENworks Edition, see the Desktop DNA User Guide, found in the \manuals directory on the ZENworks Personality Management CD.

Desktop DNA templates can be thought of as policies defining the collection of settings and data from the legacy workstation.

To create the Desktop DNA template:

1. Start Desktop DNA ZENworks Edition.

   
   

2. Click Next.

   
   

3. Click Create.

   
   

4. Review the information on the Select Settings page, then click Next.

   
   

5. Click Current User.

   Selecting Multiple Users allows machines with multiple personalities to be migrated; this requires administrative rights on the workstation and is not discussed in the guide.

   
   

6. Select the desired system settings that you want to define in the Desktop DNA template, then click Next.

   You can expand the folders by clicking the plus sign (+) next to each item.

   
   

   The Select Applications and Settings page displays all of the applications that are installed locally on the staging workstation. You should install all applications that you want to capture settings for on the workstation that you use to create the Desktop DNA template. For more information, see Preparing the Staging Workstation .

7. Select the desired application and application settings that you want to define in the Desktop DNA template, then click Next.

   You can expand the folders by clicking the plus sign (+) next to each item.

   
   

8. Select the files and folders that you want to include in the Desktop DNA template.

   You can expand the folders by clicking the plus sign (+) next to each item.

9. To create the Desktop DNA template, click File > Save Template.

10. Use the default template name, mydnatemplate.dtf, or give the template a descriptive name and save the file in the \ddna\templates directory that you created in Creating the Desktop DNA Template Store .

11. Click Save.

    For the purposes of this guide, after you save the template, you are ready to create the ZfD Application objects to collect and apply the personality information.

12. Click File > Exit.