Actually the shortcut is pointing to Notepad, for testing purposes, on the local machine. I am using the %systemdrive% variable in it, but no UNC stuff.
It's a replace I'm doing. On 16 March 2010 21:41, James Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to clarify, you are creating a shortcut on the users desktop that is > pointing to something on a server share? Are you using a unc path? > > > > Also are you doing a create, update or replace? > > > > *From:* James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Wednesday, 17 March 2010 1:06 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Group Policy Preferences context > > > > Does anyone know what user context Group Policy Preferences execute in? I > have a GPO to apply desktop shortcuts to a redirected area, and it fails > unless the *Users* group has *Change* access. I have been testing it with > *Administrators*, *System* and the actual user themselves added to the > ACL, but unless I explicitly grant *Users* *Change* permission, the Group > Policy application fails with an "Access Denied" message. > > This is a Windows 2008 R2 domain, user logging on to a 2008 R1 terminal > server, and the redirection is going to a share on a 2003 FAP server. > > TIA, > > > > JRR > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > a question." > > > > > > > > > > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
