asked on 7/18/2008

FOR Loop copy msvcr71.dll to the %systemroot% of 300 Servers

I need to create a for loop batch file to copy the msvcr71.dll (from a directory lets say C:\) to the %systemroot% of 300+ Servers. Please help ASAP. Much thanks in advance.

Windows Server 2003

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Shift-3

7/18/2008

Shift-3

7/18/2008

Paste the script below into a text file with a .cmd extension. Enter the server names into a text file named serverlist.txt, one per line. Running the script will copy the .dll file to each server (assuming you are running it under an account with permissions to those folders).

@echo off
 
for /F %%G in (serverlist.txt) do xcopy "c:\msvcr71.dll" "\\%%G\admin$\" /C /H /R /Y /Z

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radar365

7/18/2008

ASKER

The file needs to be copied to the C:\Windows\System32 folder ot the C:\Winnt\system32 folder respectivly. tks.

Shift-3

7/18/2008

Aha. That wasn't what you said.

@echo off
 
for /F %%G in (serverlist.txt) do xcopy "c:\msvcr71.dll" "\\%%G\admin$\system32\" /C /H /R /Y /Z

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radar365

7/18/2008

ASKER

Thanks this works great, I would also like to add a log so that I can see which server names this copy worked on and which ones it did not. Much thanks for your quick response.

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Shift-3

7/18/2008

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radar365

7/18/2008

ASKER

U R da MAN! One last thing with running this on ever 300 servers I am having to spend a lot of time on going over the log file to individually get the server names this failed on. Is there an easier way to just log the server names with errors? This would be very helpfull. TKS.

radar365

7/18/2008

ASKER

Great answer. I am allways greatly appreciative of all the assistance. You guys are wonderfull.

Shift-3

7/18/2008

This will capture just the names of the servers where the copy encountered errors.

@echo off
 
for /F %%G in (serverlist.txt) do (
 xcopy "c:\msvcr71.dll" "\\%%G\admin$\system32\" /C /H /R /Y /Z >> NUL 2>>&1
 if errorlevel 1 echo %%G >> log.txt
)

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