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Add IE 11 Favorite Bar

I need to use GPO to add shortcuts in IE 11 Favorite Bar (not just favorite shortcuts) to some member servers.

Can someone advise how to do that?

Thanks.
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Thanks.  Would you advise how to do group policy preference items?

I just too at a few links but don't quite get it.
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McKnife,

I create a new file and have the following as source and destination, and I use CREATE:

source: \\server1\updates\favorites\links\ADP.URL
destination: \\server1\userdata\%username%\favorites\links\ADP.URL

I go to the server which has this GPO and do a gpupdate, I logout and login.  I do not see ADP.URL being copied to  \\server1\userdata\%username%\favorites\links
destination: %userprofile%\favorites\favorites bar\ADP.URL
No no, the path is as I had told him, David. "Favorites bar" does not exist, it's %userprofile%\Favorites\Links
nav2567, you need to configure this in the user settings section of the policy. Source is correct. Destination would be as i told you before: %userprofile%\Favorites\Links\ADP.URL
your correct, I don't know where I got favorites bar from
You see it in explorer. It's that "great" feature Microsoft introduced in vista and has kept until today to not always show us what folder we are in.
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Hey McKnife,

We are using roaming profile and the URLs, for example, have to go into \\server1\userdata\%username%\favorites\links\ADP.URL as a destination.  

I tried %userprofile%\Favorites\Links\ADP.URL but it does not work.
Did you do as suggested and use the user configuration portion of the GPO?
Is the GPO linked to an OU where your test user is in?
Both has to be fulfilled.
Did you do as suggested and use the user configuration portion of the GPO?
Is the GPO linked to an OU where your test user is in?
Both has to be met.
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Thanks, both.  I am using user configuration and link the GPO to the OU that contains the server.  

I am doing a gpresult /R on the server and see the attached error.

Please advise what I should do.
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Not to the Server, link it to the users as it's user configuration.
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The issue has been resolved.  Thanks, everyone.