Closed Beta vs. Open Beta Often there are two beta testing phases, open beta and closed beta. An open beta also known as a public beta is beta testing open to any user, who is known as a beta tester.
1 Always run USMT from an account with local administrator rights (Right-click Command Prompt and choose Run as Administrator) 2  Always make sure you have enough free space to store the migration data.  Try not to use expensive searches (i.e. don't search every drive for .exe files)
Overview. The following document describes the XML elements that you can use to author migration .xml files for use with USMT. It is assumed that readers of this document understand the basics of XML.