create shortcut to users home drive

I'm a little confused as to what you're trying to accomplish.  Is the U drive a mapped drive shared off the server?  If so, you may consider creating a Group Policy to automatically map the drive for each user that needs it.

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Create shortcut on desktop for mapped drives
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/6cd20b1b-8535-46f8-93f5-7aa65e6e17e6/create-shortcut-on-desktop-for-mapped-drives

The network drive is already mapped. All i am trying to do is a script that will create a desktop shortcut to that drive letter.

Something like this?  It would need a bit of tweaking as I do not know the location of the U drive in your network.

    Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

    DesktopPath = objShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop")
    Set NewShortcut = objShell.CreateShortcut(DesktopPath & "\Udrive.lnk")

    If Not objFSO.FileExists (NewShortcut) Then
    NewShortcut.Description = "U Drive"
    NewShortcut.IconLocation = "%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll,88"
    NewShortcut.TargetPath = "\\server\locationofUdrive"
    NewShortcut.Save
    End If

    Set objFSO = nothing
    Set objShell = nothing

    WScript.Quit

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