Creating Shortut for PCs in Windows Server

[GabrielFerrazTPU]

Hey guys, is it possible to create a shortcut through windows server's GPO but with the program running on the PC itself? I'm asking this because those PCs have a lot of restrictions such as creating shortcut in the desktop. And even using the right click on the mouse.

 

For example, let's say i want to create a Microsoft Office 2019 Shortcup on the Desktop from the Server on the Users PCs, is it possible?

PS: Server is R2 2012.

[SrSuri]

basically yes, but is more like, deploy an script that make the shortcut on the desktop user,  first  it had to be an script to run when the user login to the pc, second, the application had to be already installed on the user PC, and you just need to  put this on the script:

@echo off
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
SET LinkName=Hello
SET Esc_LinkDest=%%HOMEDRIVE%%%%HOMEPATH%%\Desktop\!LinkName!.lnk
SET Esc_LinkTarget=%%SYSTEMROOT%%\notepad.exe
SET cSctVBS=CreateShortcut.vbs
SET LOG=".\%~N0_runtime.log"
((
  echo Set oWS = WScript.CreateObject^("WScript.Shell"^) 
  echo sLinkFile = oWS.ExpandEnvironmentStrings^("!Esc_LinkDest!"^)
  echo Set oLink = oWS.CreateShortcut^(sLinkFile^) 
  echo oLink.TargetPath = oWS.ExpandEnvironmentStrings^("!Esc_LinkTarget!"^)
  echo oLink.Save
)1>!cSctVBS!
cscript //nologo .\!cSctVBS!
DEL !cSctVBS! /f /q
)1>>!LOG! 2>>&1

 

how to make a shortcut from cmd:

https://superuser.com/questions/392061/how-to-make-a-shortcut-from-cmd

 

how to deploy a script using GPO:

https://www.petri.com/setting-up-logon-script-through-gpo-windows-server-2008

 

note: its for 2008 but for 2012 its almost the same.

 

[GabrielFerrazTPU]

1 hour ago, SrSuri said:

basically yes, but is more like, deploy an script that make the shortcut on the desktop user,  first  it had to be an script to run when the user login to the pc, second, the application had to be already installed on the user PC, and you just need to  put this on the script:

@echo off
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
SET LinkName=Hello
SET Esc_LinkDest=%%HOMEDRIVE%%%%HOMEPATH%%\Desktop\!LinkName!.lnk
SET Esc_LinkTarget=%%SYSTEMROOT%%\notepad.exe
SET cSctVBS=CreateShortcut.vbs
SET LOG=".\%~N0_runtime.log"
((
  echo Set oWS = WScript.CreateObject^("WScript.Shell"^) 
  echo sLinkFile = oWS.ExpandEnvironmentStrings^("!Esc_LinkDest!"^)
  echo Set oLink = oWS.CreateShortcut^(sLinkFile^) 
  echo oLink.TargetPath = oWS.ExpandEnvironmentStrings^("!Esc_LinkTarget!"^)
  echo oLink.Save
)1>!cSctVBS!
cscript //nologo .\!cSctVBS!
DEL !cSctVBS! /f /q
)1>>!LOG! 2>>&1

 

how to make a shortcut from cmd:

https://superuser.com/questions/392061/how-to-make-a-shortcut-from-cmd

 

how to deploy a script using GPO:

https://www.petri.com/setting-up-logon-script-through-gpo-windows-server-2008

 

note: its for 2008 but for 2012 its almost the same.

 

Thank you.

I'll try those method and i'll give you guys some feedback if it worked.