In Active directory, create for all user's a shortcut to a dial-up or vpn connection on the desktop

hello,

in AD, How can create for all user's a shortcut to a dial-up or vpn
connection on the desktop.

MSH
Thanks

 

Create the shortcut (say VPN.lnk), and copy it to a network location (say
\\yourdomain\DFS\).

Assuming you do not already have one, create a start-up script:
IF NOT EXIST "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\DESKTOP\VPN.lnk" %windir%\system32\xcopy.exe
\\yourdomain\DFS\VPN.lnk "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\DESKTOP\"

Still assuming you do not already have one, create a group policy to assign
this script to the computers which should have it. It is a good idea to
choose as subset of computers (such as your own IT group) as the first group
to which you assign this script.

Some helpful articles:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742536.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722569.aspx

This does not address the ability of any user to edit the link on All Users'
desktop.

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Hello

Line: 1
Char: 14
Error: Expected 'Then'
Code: 800A03f9
Source: Microsoft VBScript compilation error

I change it to this
1-
IF NOT EXIST "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\DESKTOP\PPPoE.lnk" then
%windir%\system32\xcopy.exe \\adsrv\readonly\PPPoE.lnk
"%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\DESKTOP\"

But don't work

2-
%windir%\system32\xcopy.exe \\adsrv\readonly\PPPoE.lnk
"%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\DESKTOP\"

Line: 1
Char: 14
Error: Invalid character
Code: 800A0408
Source: Microsoft VBScript compilation error

MSH
Thanks

 

That's an old fashioned batch file (.bat or .cmd), not a VB Script. It could
be scripted in VB using the same basic ideas. You could also just use the
batch file, especially if you do not have a startup or logon script.

You did specify "In Active Directory". We can quibble over whether or not
the following is "In Active Directory", or if the question or answer belongs
in the scripting forum. But the following command line (not a batch file)
will work for all Windows systems that are visible (and will miss any that
are, for instance, powered off when you run this):
for /F "usebackq" %a in (`net view`) do if exist %a\c$
%windir%\system32\xcopy.exe \\yourdomain\DFS\VPN.lnk "%a\c$\Documents and
Settings\All Users\DESKTOP\"

"net view" has two lines of output that are not system names; testing for
"exist" works around that. This * will * pick up all visible Windoes
systems, including servers. If you want to use this in a batch file, use %%
instead of %.
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