Find and Replace Files in Windows Server 2008

Question

I'm updating a file in every user profile. The location is fairly deep \profiles\\appdata\roaming\microsoft\imagelogo.jpg and I'm replacing it with a newer file of the same name. I would like to do this for all profiles. Is there a good way to replace all files based on filename?

Answer 1

A way of doing this in one swoop would be as follows:

cd path\to\user\profiles
for /d %i in (*) do copy /y newimagelogo.jpg %1\appdata\roaming\microsoft

Despite this, I'd use with Judaslscariot's answer for the following reason:

If a user is logged on when you run this, the image currently in that user's roaming profile will overwrite the image you've just copied, when they log off.

Answer 2

Create a simple batch script (.bat) to copy the file from a central share to the current users profile:

dir \\centralfileserver\path\imagelogo.jpg
if errorlevel = 1 goto exit
xcopy \\centralfileserver\path\imagelogo.jpg %USERPROFILE%\appdata\roaming\microsoft\imagelogo.jpg
:exit

Assign it as a logon script for all users via Group Policy