Add desktop lshortcut to remote computers

[MartinaL]

I need to deploy a Desktop Short to around 70 remote computers, Is there a way of doing this?

If there is a way, how

[egrath]

Hi,

if you just need to create a desktop shortcut on the remote computer i would suggest you to use these two tools in combination:

*) Psexec (www.sysinternals.com)

*) Shortcut.exe (attached)

Wrap a nice little script around these and run it.

Example:

psexec \\hostname -c shortcut -t C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe -n "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\Prompt"

Hope that helps,

Egon

shortcut.exe

[MartinaL]

Thanks heaps. But when i try to run this line from a cmd prompt I get the following error "the specified application is not on the path"

[Yzöwl]

If you're PCs are on windows 2000 you may need to replace

• C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
  

with

• C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
  

or you could always try it without the location as it will be in the PATH

• cmd.exe
  

[MartinaL]

Alright so I found the problem, I had to put shortcut.exe in the same folder as psexec.exe and change the location of the command line to where they where located so;

X:\Utilities\PsTools>psexec \\hostname -c shortcut -t C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe -n "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\Test"

Anyhow, so I want to run this from a batch file so I can feed in the list of around 70 "hostnames" and it will run on each, any ideas??

[MartinaL]

I finally got this to work, but I need to run it to add a link to a document not a program, is this possible?

This is the line I am using and it is not working;

psexec \\aws0359 -c shortcut -t "\\hvws10\Data\Shared Access\Marketing Activity Plan\AWS Marketing Activity Plan.xls" -n "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\AWS Marketing Activity Plan"