GPO Desktop shortcut to application.exe on a mapped drive

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I am trying to create Desktop shortcut on Win 10 clients on 2012 Domain via GPO. The application is located on a mapped network drive:

Z:\application\app.exe

If I try to create shell shortcuts all works fine (to test if GPO works), but targeting mapped drive app doesn't work whatever I did.

Any ideas?

UPDATE:

The app works correctly when started, directly or via manually added shortcut.

I tried GPO adding test shell shortcut and that worked fine.

I replicated normal desktop shortcut to an app.exe on shared drive, via GPO, but that one doesn't get created whatever I do.

Best Answer

To achieve maximum success rate, I recommend you to create the Shorcut in the "User" part of the GPO (if it's not already the case), and to use the full path instead of the drive letter.

For example, if Z: is mapped to \\fs1\Share\Folder then add this full path as your shortcut target \\fs1\Share\Folder\app.exe instead of z:\myapp.exe

The problem here is that you can experience timing problems: if the shortcut preference is processed before the Z:\ drive connnection, it will fail.

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