Per-User shortcuts in a Per-Machine Installation
Updated: 25 May 2010 | 1 comment
This issue has been solved. See solution.
Is it possible to do a per-user shortcuts installed using active setup with an MSI that is installed per-machine?
We have special user accounts for auto-login machines with group policy in place to not all them to see the all users desktop and need to have the shortcuts in their profile desktop folder.
I have tried to use set directory and set property custom actions but the location don't seem to change.
Any ideas?
discussion Filed Under:
Comments
What operating system?
Active Setup can indeed be used to create per user shortcuts in a per-machine package, but not as a function in the MSI, as shortcut creation that way will tend to target the All User profile.
So your active setup could be a vbscript that generates non advertised shortcuts in the user profile via active setup.
Or you could create shortcuts in the application's program files folder and then use Active Setup to copy them to the user profile.
Or if you have one of the "Studio" tools you could create a Wisescript EXE that installs the necessary shortcuts in the user profile and use active setup to run the EXE from the installed files.
No shortage of options on this one.....;-D
If your issue has been solved, please use the "Mark as Solution" link on the most relevant thread.
Would you like to reply?
Login or Register to post your comment.