Optional: Create start additional start menu shortcut Target path for your shortcut (URL, UNC) (file/folder) The PowerShell script supports the following command line parameters: Parameter You can also wrap the scripts by yourself by using the IntuneWinAppUtil.exe available as download here. You can find a prepackaged Intune Win32 app file of the “CreateDesktopIcon.ps1” script on my GitHub repository available for download. Based on the Win32 app configuration the shortut get’s either created on the users personal desktop or on the allusers desktop. In order to work with the redirected desktop to OneDrive with Known Folder Move we can take advantage of the ::GetFolderPath('Desktop') method to resolve the desktop location. This adds possibility to detect the presence of the shortcut and if required to uninstall it with Intune.

Ability to deploy shortcut together with an app using Intune Win32 app dependenciesĪ simple PowerShell script which does all the shortcut stuff is wrapped as Intune Win32 App.Ability to specify shortcut icon (UNC/URL).Shortcut can point to: URL, File (UNC) or Folder (UNC).Possibility to remove shortcut via Intune Win32 app uninstall.If the shortcut is missing or deleted it gets automatically (re)created.Everything is user based (local userprofile).This solution works when the desktop is redirected with OneDrive Known Folder Move.I documented this for the new Microsoft Edge based on chromium here. In comparison with other solutions this one works if you have redirected the users desktop with OneDrive Known Folder Move and automatically remediates missing shortcuts if they got deleted.īrowser links: Instead of placing shortcuts to websites on the desktop I would recommend you to use managed bookmarks which can be directly provisioned within the web browser. For this purpose I created a little solution which closes the gap between the modern cloud and on premises world. Or you need to create a shortcut for an application which is stored on your on premises fileserver. Why want you to create desktop shortcuts with Intune? Business specific apps may require special shortcuts in order to launch the application with the right parameters.

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