Short version of what I'm trying to do is sync my Outlook files from local hard drive to my network drive at work, and I want to try and use robocopy (and a Scheduled Task) to do this nightly.

But a recent example from the storage world does suggest something about Microsoft's "people will beat up on us regardless" dilemma. Written by Angus Kidman, Contributor Aug. 3, 2008 at 6:26 p.m. PT ...

I'm attempting to use Robocopy w/Windows Scheduled Tasks to auto-copy a folder (backup) from a Workstation computer (WinXP SP3); to our Domain network shared folder (backup).