deploy files

[johannulnulzeven]

Hello,

is there some kind of program (or script) to deploy files (in a certain directory) through a company network? I also would like to assign which computers must be updated with the files and which not.

Thx. for youre help.

Johan.

 

[JadeKnight]

Think you should tell a bit more about the project and what exactly you would like to achieve...

 

[johannulnulzeven]

We have a client / server application in development. And the testing is done by our users. Everytime a new version is created, this client needs to be deployed through-out our company. This clients contains +1500 files locally stored on the users hd. Sometimes the update is just one file, other times it involves more. I would be happy to have a tool, so i could place this updated files in a certain directory on my pc, or on a server, specify the computers which need the updates and then run the tool and let it distribute everything overnight This should be possible i guess ...

 

[EBGreen]

I would use a text file to list the machines to be updated then use a run command to robocopy to do the catual update.

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[markdmac]

I agree with TomThumbKP if you intent is to only update files on a few boxes.

If you are updating DLL files however you may run into problems with overwriting them. In that case you may need to script running REGSVR32 to unregister the DLL files first. If this is the case then in addition to the advice to use RoboCopy, I would also suggest using PSEXEC (free DL from Sysinternals.com). Using PSEXEC you will be able to script the local execution of REGSVR32 and whatever other commands may be required.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark