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Batch file to copy from all user profiles

I want to create a batch file that will copy all types of * .doc and * .xls files from a user profile. Then I installed a batch file to run automatically through the scheduled tasks after closing, when all users are logged out. Here is what I have:

for %%x in (doc xls) do xcopy c:\Users\user1\*.%%x "\\server\i$\User Backups\user1\%computername%\" /c /i /y /s /d

This works great, but I need to create a position in the batch file for each user in our organization (user1, user2, etc.) so that I hit all the profiles. When new users are hired, the file must be updated with profile information. Ideally, I would like a little more automated, similar to this:

for %%x in (doc xls) do xcopy %userprofile%\*.%%x "\\server\i$\User Backups\%username%\%computername%" /c /i /y /s /d

The downfall is that using% userprofile% instead of typing 'user1', it only runs against the current user. Is there another option that I could turn on that would not care about the current user login, but instead just work with all the user profiles on the machine?

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You can use reg queryit to get a list of user profiles from the registry, but you only care about users who have a folder under C:\Users, so just go through those:

for /d %%u in (C:\Users\*) do for %%x in (doc xls) do xcopy C:\Users\%%~nu\*.%%x "\\server\i$\User Backups\%%~nu\%computername%\" /c /i /y /s /d
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