Distribute updates Angus 04.07.2006 14:29:02 I have an application which quite frequently gets updated and I would liked to automate distribution of these updates. How do you suggest I do this? I would rather not use a full installation utility. I have worked out the following BAT file to do the update which will reside on the server and be launched by the user via a shortcut. It will check for updates and launch the app: [code] Rem check for local directory if not exist C:\CM\CMApp.mde mkdir "C:\CM" Rem updates local app if not exist C:\CM\CMApp.ldb xcopy "\\Xserve.local\general1\CM\Install\CMApp.mde" "C:\CM\" /o /d:06-25-2006 Rem Launch application rem if not exist "C:\CM\CMApp.ldb" "C:\CM\CMApp.mde" [/code] However there a few problems with this. Most importantly, the users who run the code will not have administrator privileges and so the \o switch on xcopy will not copy the security settings from the original file. Likewise with mkdir. I need to get around this problem as each computer will have multiple users. Any suggestions gratefully received. Am I going about this entirely the wrong way? Thanks in advance.