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Marc O
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      26th Nov 2003
Is there a way to have an short cut placed on multiple desktops using group
policy? What I want to is put a link to a specifc web page in the form of a
desktop short cut to the entire domain. Sounds like a GPO right?? Any
thoughts?
Marc


 
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Dave Patrick
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      26th Nov 2003
You can use the CreateShortcut method of VBScript.

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"Marc O" wrote:
> Is there a way to have an short cut placed on multiple desktops using

group
> policy? What I want to is put a link to a specifc web page in the form of

a
> desktop short cut to the entire domain. Sounds like a GPO right?? Any
> thoughts?
> Marc
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Marc O
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      26th Nov 2003
With out sounding like a complete idiot I will try and say this:
How would I do that??

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> "Marc O" wrote:
> > Is there a way to have an short cut placed on multiple desktops using

> group
> > policy? What I want to is put a link to a specifc web page in the form

of
> a
> > desktop short cut to the entire domain. Sounds like a GPO right?? Any
> > thoughts?
> > Marc
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Dave Patrick
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      26th Nov 2003
A couple of ways to do this include using the CreateShortcut method of
VBScript. Or try Marty List's cool tool Shortcut v. 100
http://optimumx.com/download/#Shortcut


This VBScript would create a shortcut to a mapped drive 'S:\'
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set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
strDesktop = WshShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop")
set oShellLink = WshShell.CreateShortcut(strDesktop & "\S Drive.lnk")
oShellLink.TargetPath = "S:\"
oShellLink.WindowStyle = 1
oShellLink.IconLocation = "explorer.exe, 1"
oShellLink.Description = "Network S Drive"
oShellLink.WorkingDirectory = "S:\"
oShellLink.Save
Set WshShell = Nothing
Set oShellLink = Nothing
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Depending on what you're wanting, use either;

WshShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop")
WshShell.SpecialFolders("AllUsersDesktop")

Also WSH 5.6 documentation download at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

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> How would I do that??



 
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