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There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/magazine\/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx\">more information in Joshua Hoffman&#8217;s article in the April 2009 edition of TechNet magazine<\/a> but think of it as RoboCopy on steroids:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;RichCopy is a multi-threaded robust utility to copy files between locations.  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There&#8217;s more information in Joshua Hoffman&#8217;s article in the April 2009 edition of TechNet magazine but think of it as RoboCopy on steroids: &#8220;RichCopy is a multi-threaded robust &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/03\/another-microsoft-internal-tool-makes-its-escape-richcopy.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another Microsoft internal tool makes its escape: RichCopy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-useful-software"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Another Microsoft internal tool makes its escape: RichCopy - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/03\/another-microsoft-internal-tool-makes-its-escape-richcopy.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Another Microsoft internal tool makes its escape: RichCopy - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My colleague Keith Robertson sent out an e-mail this morning which highlighted the release of a Microsoft tool that was formerly for internal use only &#8211; RichCopy. 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