Attaching Desktop shortcuts

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Pat Williams

Since .lnk files are blocked, has anyone come up with
a "best practice" of shipping a link to an .exe or an .mdb
to a user, which should be placed on the user's desktop?

I am really beside myself -- it used to be so simple to
just attach a .lnk file to email and send to the user w/
instructions to copy to their desktops. Now, we have to
go through all kinds of gyrations -- I insert a hyperlink
with instructions to have them copy from a folder (which
exposes more than I would like them to see on the network,
plus it's confusing to them), or, I can send them
instructions to copy the line, create a new shortcut on
the desktop, paste into target, etc. etc. This becomes
exponentionally more user-handholding than the earlier
method was, and I am just -- well, it's a huge time-waster
for me. Can anyone shed some light on this? -- Also --
I used to just "rename" the link to .txt and add the
additional instructions that come along with that, but now
you can no longer rename it in a windows environment --
that is, it renames itself to something
like "myprogs.lnk.txt" or ".txt.lnk," I'm not sure. I
have to drop to DOS if I want to do any renaming.
AAAAARRRRR! (and it's a few days after Natl Talk Like a
Pirate Day).

Any help would be appreciated,
thx
Pat
 
I'd probably zip the file and tell the user to unzip to the desktop...

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Thanks, Jocelyn. The only problem is that we do not have
Winzip installed for everyone, so that would be an issue.

I'm thinking of creating a batch file that accepts a
parameter, which would be a drill for me, but maybe I
could make that work. Argh.

Thanks for your response,
Pat
 
Various choices:

-- Put it in a .zip file
-- Rename the .lnk and tell them how to change the name after saving it to the desktop
-- Upgrade to a version of Outlook that allows you to customize the attachment blocking feature and allow .lnk files to go through.
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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