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I am looking for a easy way to deploy a web shortcut icon to 400 plus pc's
with out having to touch each desktop. Anyone know of a nice clean way to do
this from group policy.
Thanks in advance
Mark
 
solyst said:
I am looking for a easy way to deploy a web shortcut icon to
400 plus pc's
with out having to touch each desktop. Anyone know of a nice
clean way to do
this from group policy.
Thanks in advance
Mark
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Hi,

Best idea is to create a batch script. I have 600 machines and I do it
with one I have that goes like this.

xcopy "\\server\share\*.*" "\\R230-01\c$\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Desktop" /y

It is easy to create a script. Export the list of computers from
Active Directory into Excel. Create different colums for each of the
commands above. Keep one column for just the computer name. Now copy
the contents to notepad and find-replace the commas and the extra
blanks.

Run it and voila. Does about 600 machines in about 2 minutes.

Cheers,

Lara
 
lforbes said:
Hi,

Best idea is to create a batch script. I have 600 machines and I do it
with one I have that goes like this.

xcopy "\\server\share\*.*" "\\R230-01\c$\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Desktop" /y

It is easy to create a script. Export the list of computers from
Active Directory into Excel. Create different colums for each of the
commands above. Keep one column for just the computer name. Now copy
the contents to notepad and find-replace the commas and the extra
blanks.

Run it and voila. Does about 600 machines in about 2 minutes.
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I do a similar thing but through a computer startup script assigned via a
GPO. That way I know that if a user deletes a mandatory icon they will get
it back the next time the computer is restarted.
It also means that to distribute a new icon I just copy it to the directory
on the server that the script picks it up from and I know it will be
deployed.

You can use xcopy with the /d /y switches to ensure that files are only
copied if they don't exist on the PC, or if the server version is newer
than the one on the PC.
 
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