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We're looking at using a GPO to put a shortcut to a company web app on all users' desktops. Different users are on different Windows versions, meaning the location varies:

  • c:\documents and settings\all users\desktop
  • c:\users\all users\desktop
  • c:\users\public\desktop (confusingly nicknamed c:\users\public\public desktop)

I can't find an environment variable for this; the most likely candidate is allusersprofile, but this points to c:\programdata (on my machine / windows 7 at least).

As such, I'm wondering what the best way is to make a GPO which will work on any of these machines?

JohnLBevan
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    Have you support for [Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions](http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3628) on your downlevel clients? – jscott Dec 18 '14 at 13:20
  • @jscott : yes, our infrastructure team confirm we do. – JohnLBevan Dec 18 '14 at 15:04

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If you want one GPO configuration for all types of OSs, then you must either use "%UserProfile%\Desktop" (and then the policy should apply on each user separately) or use a custom script.

EliadTech
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i think this topic will help you

Click here http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2014/02/17/adding-shortcuts-on-desktop-using-group-policy-preferences-in-windows-8-and-windows-8-1.aspx

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  • Please don't post link-only answers but instead include this link along with a summary of the relevant details so that your answer can continue to be useful even if the link becomes unavailable. Your answer will actually be a very good one if you do this. – I say Reinstate Monica Dec 22 '14 at 04:52