Re: Automated script to backup IE favorites?

Diego - disregard last message I got it! I just had to put a quote around
the directory names and it worked - this is exactly what I wanted to do.

We'll add this to our running scripts and have it download from their home
directory when they come to a DR site.

You rock!


"diego" wrote:

Well, you can create a bath file with a command like
"xcopy %USERPROFILE%\Favorites\*.* /S /E H:\Favorites\".
If you don't want to use a batch file, WSH is an interesting alternative.
Create a text file and rename it to "something.vbs". Edit the .vbs file and
write this :
Set MyShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
MyShell.Run "xcopy %USERPROFILE%\Favorites\*.* /S /E H:\Favorites\"

Them, you have to create a GPO to run the batch or WSH script on user logoff
(Use GPMC or Active Directory to create the GPO and launch the batch form
"User or Computer Configuration | Windows Settings | Scripts
(Startup/Shutdown) | Shutdown" Click add to create a link to the batch file).
If you prefer that the users launches the copy themselves, create a GPO to
deploy a IE link to the script file in "User Configuration | Windows Settings
| Internet Explorer Maintenance | URLs | Favorites and Links"

Diego

"Adam West" wrote:

We could do that but we want to simplify it for the users - plus I want to
avoid hundreds of questions - this is for over 2000 users.

Diego - it is Windows 2000, we are using Active Directory and IE 6 latest
version. Roaming profiles is not an option.

Thanks for the replies.

"Alan Edwards" wrote:

Can't you teach them to use IE-File-Export to create a single HTML
backup file??

....Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.org/index.html



On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:10:02 -0800, Adam West <Adam
West@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello - I work in disaster recovery and we have a few other applications
(Lotus Notes), where we have users click on a file in their delivered
applications window and it will backup all of their pertinent Notes files to
their home directory on the SAN.

Is there a way to automate the backing up of favorites in Internet Explorer
(Windows 2000)? We'd like to have something setup where the users can click
a file and then it copies all favorites to their H: drive and then a script
that will copy the files down whenever they login to a new PC. Is this
possible?

TIA

.

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