Whenever I install products from Intuit, like Quick Books or Turbo Tax, the installer puts junk on my desktop. I didn't ask the installer to put advertisements on my computer!?!? Stop doing that. It's been a bit of an arms race for who controls the Start Menu, Desktop, Task Bar, Browser, Start Screen, etc.. The battle goes on between Microsoft, OEM's, IT departments, IHV's, ISV's, and Users, each searching for control. Obviously you made a decision that the User's control of the Task Bar is less important than the IT Department's control, Quicken decided that their ability to put advertising in my face is more important than my clean/organized desktop. As a tool to keep the Task Bar in the control of users, Microsoft has started to limit the programmatic interfaces for the Task Bar and for Windows 8 the Start Screen. This is by design. (I will concede that Microsoft has done a poor job providing easy interfaces for IT Pros in Windows 8, read: Start Screen and Boot to Desktop). http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd391692(v=vs.85).as px "Note Applications cannot programmatically pin themselves to the taskbar. That functionality is reserved strictly for the user." I am a bit surprised that CopyProfile=True does not work for you, have you tried it in your environment? The data should be stored in HKCU, so CopyProfile should work. Do you have roaming profiles? -k From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Burke, John Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 7:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MDT-OSD] populate or pin to taskbar for all users Hi folks, I've been asked to throw some icons on the taskbar for users because they are locking down everyones ability to pin themselves. I thought this would be super easy, and assumed i could just throw some icons into the pinned folder for the default user but when i got googling, it seems more complicated. Questions - Why can't we set it up for default user and that create it for any new users? Question 2. how are you dealing with this?
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