Thick Client Migrator

Project Overview

During an internship, I was assigned the task of migrating employees from Thick Clients to Thin Clients. After two or three times of manual migration, I knew that there had to be a way of automating this. Learning how to automate one task at a time, I eventually automated the entire process. Teaching myself Batch and Powershell along the way!

After some debugging, the scripts were stored on a NAS and the paths were added to users login script, completely removing the need for human intervention.

The scripts performed the following tasks:
• • Store paths of Users Map Drives
• • Generate custom login script to be utilized by Thin Client
• • Upload the login script to NAS
• • Export 3 browsers bookmarks
• • Empty user's recycling bin
• • Convert & Compress user's certificates into .PFX format
• • Compress files that are incompatible with OneDrive
• • Export Outlook Signatures
• • Export Excel Macros
• • Import browser bookmarks into Thin Client
• • Decompress the files that were incompatible with OneDrive
• • Import Outlook Signatures


While I was the sole author of this script, I created it during company time therefore I will not be making the source code publicly available.