Here's my article: http://www.david-obrien.net/2014/06/26/publish-url-shortcuts-windows-8-1/
Explains what happens, but not really why. ;) Cheers David From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David O'Brien Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 2:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [mssms] Pinning of WIn8.1 apps Got an article in the making on that. Short story: There are shortcuts, and there are Internet shortcuts. Use internet shortcuts and you're good. David From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 2:49 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [mssms] Pinning of WIn8.1 apps I found the exact same issue. IF you find a fix, please share it. We ended up just not pinning any IE shortcuts to the start screen. _____ From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [[email protected]] on behalf of David O'Brien [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 6:50 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] Pinning of WIn8.1 apps Hi all, Came across a strange issue on Windows 8.1 Enterprise with Update. I create Start Screen shortcuts for all users by copying links to the default Start Menu. Those shortcuts all have special icons. When I view them under "All Apps" they look perfectly fine, as soon as I pin them to the Start Screen though, they all end up with the IE icon. The shortcut is still valid. Right clicking on the tile and selecting "Open file location" brings me to the correct lnk file which again shows me the correct icon. It's just the tile which seems to be broken. I have already heard of one who sees the same behaviour on his Windows Phone 8. Some of his tiles, which he pinned himself, look like Windows Store, although they are links to other apps. Has anyone seen this before? I'm trying to deploy a custom Start Screen layout to all the users, doesn't look very pretty, if there are 30 IE tiles on the Start Screen. ;) Thanks. David
