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thanks for the comment, this helped there was an issue with another policy that was enabled that caused part of the problem
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thanks for the comment, this helped there was an issue with another policy that was enabled that caused part of the problem

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i have a 2003 terminal server with group policies in place to restrict access to the program menu. I want users to have access to some common applications, like office by simply giving them shortcuts on their desktop.<br />
If i drop the shortcut into the All Users- Desktop folder the icons do not show up for the other users, i have also tried doing this to the default user- desktop profile as well. (this was done on the terminal server)<br />
after the user logs into the terminal server, and their profile is created i can manually drop the icons into their desktop folder in their profile however this would not be the prefered method.<br />
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any help would be appreciated.
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i have a 2003 terminal server with group policies in place to restrict access to the program menu. I want users to have access to some common applications, like office by simply giving them shortcuts on their desktop.
If i drop the shortcut into the All Users- Desktop folder the icons do not show up for the other users, i have also tried doing this to the default user- desktop profile as well. (this was done on the terminal server)
after the user logs into the terminal server, and their profile is created i can manually drop the icons into their desktop folder in their profile however this would not be the prefered method.

any help would be appreciated.

Add desktop shortcuts on 2003 terminal server

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).