The Challenges of Using VBScript to Create Shortcuts

Updated 8th December 2008…

Today I was finalising the application deployment for a new XenApp farm. One of the final scripts to create was to place 9 shortcuts on the Desktop of the All Users profile. That’s quite a simple task, and for the most part some would probably just end up copying a bunch of previously created ones into place. But that would be too easy. I wanted to create them on the fly!

So whilst I was writing the script I was faced with three challenges:

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