Holy smokes...that was perfect thx Jooel. File not found. that leads me to your closing statement. You say the path is still incorrect...

Copy @ldrive + "\POC_default_outlook_profile.PRF" "w:\windows\" /h /r

I used the ? to display it just to save myself more embarassment and this is the result...

\\thor\netlogon\poc_default_outlook_profile.prf

that seems correct...but was wondering after seing it printed out there....do you think copy maybe doesn't support UNC?

thx for your help