Hi,
i'm trying to roll out a simple desktop shortcut to an internal web
application.
Our enviroment is server 2003 with either XP or vista business clients. We
have a xp box which we use to roll out GP from, but I was wondering what is
the best way to roll out a shortcut using the hardware / software we have
available.
It's only going out to around 50 pc's, but they are located in two
countries.

Thanks in advance

Howdie!

Fred Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> i'm trying to roll out a simple desktop shortcut to an internal web
> application.
> Our enviroment is server 2003 with either XP or vista business clients.
> We have a xp box which we use to roll out GP from, but I was wondering
> what is the best way to roll out a shortcut using the hardware /
> software we have available.
> It's only going out to around 50 pc's, but they are located in two
> countries.

You don't have a Vista Management station? If you had one, you could use
Group Policy Preferences to deploy the shortcuts. Pretty easy to use,
really painless.

Other than that, you'll have to script it. Preferrably a user logon
script that copies the .lnk file to the local desktop (off a file share)

Cheers,
Florian

> You don't have a Vista Management station? If you had one, you could use
> Group Policy Preferences to deploy the shortcuts. Pretty easy to use,
> really painless.

I second this. If you have a Vista or Win7 machine, download and install
RSAT. Then use group policy preferences. Note that all of the client
machines need to have the group policy preferences client side extensions
installed.

This may or may not be the case as this is not an update the Automatic
Updates usually installs.