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GPO desktop shortcuts not showing
I have setup a GPO for desktop shortcuts. I have applied the GPO under Computer Configuration and linked it to my Terminal Servers. I am using a TEST security group, however the shortcuts do not show up. What am I missing? Thank you.
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- This is a computer policy (not user), and you are trying to put the shortcut in a user's Desktop. That won't work, there is no user. Either change the shortcut to go to the common desktop directory, or else change this to a user policy (within User Configuration in your screenshot) AND then either link to the user OU, or leave linked to the Terminal Servers OU and turn on loopback processing.
Two things spring to mind - one, do you have a loopback policy set?
Also what happens if you set the policy on the User Configuration and add a test user to your security group?
Computer policy doesn't require loopback. PaulaSillars
Not sure what you mean by a loopback policy?
I did get the shortcuts to work by setting the GPO up under User Configuration and then linking to User OU. I also used Item-Level Targeting for the specific server I want this GPO to work on for the user. Does this sound like a good method?
Your solution will work but if you want to go back to the original scenario, to a computer policy when a user logs on, you need a loopback policy.
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askds/2013/02/08/circle-back-to-loopback/
