Symantec Ghost Pull Customer Education Files

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For those that have attended a seminar, event or Customer Education course with the UK branch in the past. Each system is re-ghosted and traditionally all files and folders from all courses were then pushed to the PC's. This (very quickly) became unscalable as the number of courses and events increased, we say +10gb requiring a push to 12+ PC's at a time.

This program is called after the ghost has completed, maps a network drive, downloads the course materials for that particular course onto all PC's then removes the drive mapping. Typically pushing of files took 40+ minutes, with this program it ensures all files needed exist on the PC, and typically takes less than a 40 seconds to complete (depending on the course).

For security reasons, the actual mapping we perform in the UK has been removed and replaced with the layout schema for mapping a drive.

The system reads 2 configuration files from the server, both contain the path's to download content from for that course - structured from the PC side

i.e. "K:\Solutions\Core 1" where "K:\" in the file relates to the K drive just mapped by the program.