Need assistance: As little as input, but code additions would be wonderful.

Without going into too much detail, I'm a Govt Employee that requires an up-to-date hard drive of Electronic Publications and FAA approach information to be maintained. We have 180 of them (drives and personnel) and its been put onto to me to come up with a way to do it without any additional resources. However, I am still new to programming scene.

Some brainstorms we came up with before, included using VBA via an HTA using a basic looking interface. This works for us, since all 180 users have no admin rights at all and HTA runs without any warnings or errors. Any other suggestions are welcome within those parameters.

What I really need it to do? I need it to (and in a crazy simple looking way) go out (when opened) check to see if a newer version of the two folders are up-to-date with our shared drive (not mapped) version of these folders. I've gathered that since they often plug-in at other computers not on our internal network, it would need to ping for availability I'm guessing.

One of my ideas would be: Traffic light. Green (Up-to-date), Yellow (unable to verify, offline), Red (out-of-date). When its Red, clicking on it would trigger an overwrite.

I don't care about how the files get copied, native VBS...Robocopy silent in the background.

A progress bar for the update would be a gucci feature, but not required. A tricked out animated GIF would work in their eyes are much as progress bar that actually keeps track.

Its asking a lot, but if anyone has any ideas...it would help us out BIG TIME. I know it sounds like i'm asking for the moon, but I'm really just sound-boarding some ideas from some wiser than me. This would be a big "win" for my office to get this hassle under the rug.