Copying a Folder from the Server to the Local My Documents folder.

I have been looking to copy a folder containing a series of folders and other
documents from a network location to the user's My Documents folder within
their local user profile. My users spend large amounts of time disconnected
from the network or are in locations without network connectivity. As a
result, they need to have this information locally.

I came across the following script today that seemed to fit the bill, but I
also wanted to include some intelligence in the script to see if the folder
existed. Thus, I want the script to see if the folder exists. If it does,
then the script can exit with a cheery message stating that Folder Foo exists
already. If the script sees that the folder does not exist, I want it to
copy over the folder from the network location.

The script I found that is a great starting point to perform the file copy
is here
(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/co...technet-mgmt&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=en-us&m=1&p=1).
Of course, my testing has turned up some syntax errors per my edits, so I
need to examine this a bit further. Here is my script, as it stands in its
error filled glory.

'------------------------------------------------
'Const OverwriteExisting = TRUE
Const USER_PROFILE = &H28&

Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set objFolder = objShell.Namespace(USER_PROFILE)
Set objFolderItem = objFolder.Self
strTemplatePath = objFolderItem.Path & "\My Documents\"

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
objFSO.CopyFile "\\sbacs0001\Share\Engagement Administration\" ,
strTemplatePath ', OverwriteExisting
'----------------------------------------------------

So, the question I have is what am I doing wrong? Is there a better way to
do this than the method I am proposing?

Thanks from a scripting n00b,
Jason

 

Hi Jason,

I'm afraid if you dont copy existing folders then your users will be
having old versions of it locally and any new additions to already
existing folder in network will not be copied.

I would suggest you to use Windows Synchronisation between local PC
folders and network location using any one of below methods,

1. ***Freeware*** 3rd Party Synch tools
http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/system/fwbackup.html

2. Robocopy
(http://www.ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html)

3. Default Windows Synchronisation
(http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/mobility/learnmore/offlinefiles.mspx)

Jason Thomas wrote :