5.0 Using the DNA Template Editor to Create the Template

Each customer can 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.

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 in the Template Editor:

Click Start > Programs > Novell ZENworks Personality Migration > Migration Management Toolkit > DNA Template Editor.
Configure the settings for your template:

NOTE:For detailed information about the Template Editor, see the online Help in the DNA Template Editor. The Help topics contain detailed information about the following settings:
1. (Optional) The Users setting lets you add or remove user profiles from your template. Unless you are a system administrator and logged into a system supporting multiple profiles, only the current user's settings are migrated. Current User is designated as the user who is logged into the computer at the time of the migration.
  
  To add a user, click Users in the left pane of the Template Editor window, then click the Add button on the right side. You can use the Domains, Local, Special, and Unlisted tabs in the Add Users dialog box to select the user that you want to add.
  
  If the user is not an administrator who is logged in during the migration, then you should not add any users to the template. You should simply use the default, which is the current user logged into the system at the time of the migration. If you are only going to migrate the Current User, do not add any users to the template.
2. (Optional) The System setting lets you edit all the system settings listed in the right pane of the Template Editor window. To configure System settings, click System in the left pane of the Template Editor window, click the Add button on the right side, then select the desired settings.
  
  You can expand the folders by clicking the plus sign (+) next to each item.
3. (Optional) The Applications setting lets you edit application selections, such as applications, their settings, and their associated documents.To configure Application settings, click Applications in the left pane of the Template Editor window, click the Add button on the right side, then select the desired settings.
  
  You can expand the folders by clicking the plus sign (+) next to each item.
4. (Optional) The Muscle setting lets you migrate applications for which there are no scripts available. These are called Muscle Migrations.
  
  Muscle Migration is disabled by default in ZENworks 7 Personality Migration. To re-enable it, you need to manually edit the ddnaoptions.dox file, which is not created until the first time you run Personality Migration. For information about how to edit this file, see Section 5.1, Re-enabling the Muscle Migration Function.
5. (Optional) The Files setting lets you edit file and folder migration selections.
  
  To configure Files settings, click Files in the left pane of the Template Editor window, click the Add button on the right side, then select the desired settings.
  
  You can expand the folders by clicking the plus sign (+) next to each item.
6. (Optional) The Filters setting lets you edit the filters you created to implement a search for files, folders, or drives.
  
  To select Filters settings, click Filters in the left pane of the Template Editor window, click the Add button on the right side, then select the desired settings.
To create the Desktop DNA template, click File > Save.
Use the default template name, mydnatemplate.dtf, or give the template a descriptive name and save the file on the server in the \ddna\templates directory that you created in Section 2.1, Creating the Desktop DNA Template Store.
Click Save.

For the purposes of this guide, after you save the template, you are ready to create the Desktop Management Application objects to collect and apply the personality information. See Creating the Application Object to Collect the Personality and Creating the Application Object to Apply the Personality for more information.
Click File > Exit.