WindowsMachineFileCopy using /xd doesnt honor multiple machines

when WindowsMachineFileCopy is used to copy to multiple machines, and the /XD option is used in the additional arguments in order to exclude a directory, the path specified needs to be able to replace the drive letter with all the servers in the list.

e.g. (server1, server2, server3) /XD c:\XXXX

needs to become

\\server1\c$\XXXX
\\server2\c$\XXXX
\\server3\c$\XXXX

similar to the way done with the destination path

[chshrikh]

@amccool /XD is used for excluding the source. So in logs you can see “Exc Dirs : \Sourceserver1\SkipThisFolder” . this will not get resolve as target paths.

[mvvsubbu]

@amccool

Using multi config feature in Release you can achieve what you are looking for without adding multiple instances of task. I have given details with screen shots below

1. Enable multi-configuration a. Select Run on Agent b. Expand Run on multiple agents in parallel section c. Set Type of parallelism to : Multi-configuration d. Set Multipliers to Machines e. Set Maximum number of agents to, some number depending on how many at a time you want to do.

Refer screen shot below

1. Define multipliers variable in variable section with comma separated list of machine names on which you want to copy. Refer screen shot below

1. Make of the multiplier variable in your windows file copy as illustrated below. This does the trick of changing machine name for each config and execute the task.