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November 26, 2007 at 06:55 AM
adam s

Creating a Shortcut on the Domain User/Group’s Desktop

by adam s . Updated 18 years, 9 months ago

W2K3 Server – Domain Controller, File Server

I am having trouble creating a shortcut on the desktops of a group’s users. I want to have a group that contains member users. When those users logon, I want them to have a shortcut to a shared folder on the server no matter what computer onto which they logon.

I have set up roaming profiles by changing the profile path of the users, created the group, added the users, creted a shortcut, made a simple script that contains this line:

copy “\\Server\Logon Scripts\Short Cut.lnk” “C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Desktop”,

and placed it in a shared folder, naming it script.vbs.

I was able to successfully create the shortcut with one user by changing the account’s profile logon script to point to the script on the server. The user was me as a Domain Admin, but I could not duplicate the success with other Domain Users. I believe that the permissions are correct, but I’m willing to triple check, if explicit advice regarding which permissions should be set is offered.

Is there a more elegant/simple way to create a shortcut on the desktop?

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