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Russell Mickler, Principal Consultant, has over 17 years of professional experience leading and managing IT organizations.
Microsoft SyncToy for WindowsXP
Written on September 25, 2006
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I was doing some research on the Windows Mobility Center in Windows Vista when I came across SyncToy. SyncToy is a downloadable free utility that allows the user to set parameters on a source destination folder to a target destination folder, then automate the copy, move, and deletion of files from one folder to another.
This add-in is useful for those user’s who’re frequently synchonizing various folders and media – like digital cameras, for example – so SyncToy has had a significant amount of input from end-users in the photography field. What is interesting about this utility is that it looks like a graphic user interface for RoboCopy: an old command-line tool that’s found in the Resource Kits for Windows Server ever since the old NT 4.0 days. Not only can you handle the synchronization of images between locations, any file will do, and there are five configurable options for SyncToy – much like RoboCopy.
SyncToy can be downloaded from Microsoft and it’s free – recommended for use on a Windows XP SP 2 station; SyncToy’s white paper can also be downloaded.
SyncToy and some of its functionality will be incorporated into the new version of Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, due out in January 2007. SyncToy is available now for WindowsXP users.