adding shortcut to multiple desktops

[Colin Bondi]

We have a Windows Server 2003 domain with Windows XP SP2 clients and we are
using roaming profiles. I wanted to place a shortcut to our intranet site on
every users desktop and I wanted to find out what the easiest way to do that
is given that we have several hundred users. It would be good if it could be
automatically recreated if people delete it by accident. Does group policy
allow something like this? Any feedback would be appreciated.
thanks

 

[Steve Parry]

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We have a Windows Server 2003 domain with Windows XP SP2 clients and
we are using roaming profiles. I wanted to place a shortcut to our
intranet site on every users desktop and I wanted to find out what
the easiest way to do that is given that we have several hundred
users. It would be good if it could be automatically recreated if
people delete it by accident. Does group policy allow something like
this? Any feedback would be appreciated. thanks

you could do a simple copy from a server location to the desktop using the
logon script ? A shortcut would be small enough to not add any time during
its copy to the logon process

 

[Herb Martin]

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you could do a simple copy from a server location to the desktop using the
logon script ? A shortcut would be small enough to not add any time during
its copy to the logon process

That is a good idea. Another approach would be to work from the server,
iterating through the user roaming profile directories and adding the icon
there.

This has the advantage of doing the job now, and only doing it once.
The startup script has to be setup and eventually removed -- or it
will be left interminably copy the file (or at least checking for the file
as it really should be done with an "if not exists" and/or "xcopy /d"
to only update if the file is missing or older on the workstations.