If you haven’t looked at the robocopy command yet there is no better time than now. There isn’t anything you can’t do with file management using this tool. Some good resources for the command include:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145(WS.10).aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2006.11.utilityspotlight.aspx
Recently I was moving redirected and roaming profiles from one server to another and this tool saved a ton of time. The basics of the command are pretty easy: source destination options. For my move I used the following command: “robocopy \\servernamefrom\foldername \\servernameto\foldername /e /copyall /mir”. The /e switch copies subdirectories even if they are empty, the /copyall switch copies all attributes about the file and the /mir mirrors the directory.
I had an issue with the copying of redirected folders when I didn’t use the /mir switch as the system wouldn’t copy security and ownership (strange that the same command on the profile folder worked).
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