Hi Anatoliy, Normally we do that by accessing the profile and dropping the icons by hand. basically going to the start menu, then rightclick the icon or application key and select send to and then desktop. So pretty simple. Could that also happen when i and the user is logged in with the same profile? though i am unsure if that is the problem. Greetings, Simon Am 16.10.2017 um 17:19 schrieb Anatoliy Shudrya:

Hi, Sounds like a corrupted profile. How do you assign your shortcuts, is it via GPO, user settings, preferences, windows, shortcuts?

-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Eigeldinger Simon Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 6:56 AM To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Roaming profiles and broken desktop icons

Hi all,

Anyone has seen that or knows how to fix it?

We have Windows 2008 R2 servers and Windows 7 Pro 64 bit machines. We have roaming profiles enabled to make it easy for the user to change machines and for us as well.

Now we figured out that often the desktop icons are broken. llike ms word and excel icons can't open excel on another machine. though the software is the same. its even the same location it should find its exe file.

Anyone knows what causes this issue that desktop icons get broken using roaming profiles?

Greetings and thanks, Simon

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The path seems to be disabled kind of. though i have to recheck tomorrow. at least the icon is unuseable. you can not even edit the path. Greetings, Simon Am 16.10.2017 um 18:49 schrieb Ratha Moeuy:

Where the shortcut is broken, verify path in target field. Try running the path.

-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Simon Eigeldinger via Blind-sysadmins Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 11:25 AM To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Cc: Simon Eigeldinger Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Roaming profiles and broken desktop icons

Hi Anatoliy,

Normally we do that by accessing the profile and dropping the icons by hand. basically going to the start menu, then rightclick the icon or application key and select send to and then desktop. So pretty simple.

Could that also happen when i and the user is logged in with the same profile? though i am unsure if that is the problem.

Greetings, Simon

Am 16.10.2017 um 17:19 schrieb Anatoliy Shudrya:

...

Hi, Sounds like a corrupted profile. How do you assign your shortcuts, is it via GPO, user settings, preferences, windows, shortcuts?

-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Eigeldinger Simon Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 6:56 AM To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Roaming profiles and broken desktop icons

Hi all,

Anyone has seen that or knows how to fix it?

We have Windows 2008 R2 servers and Windows 7 Pro 64 bit machines. We have roaming profiles enabled to make it easy for the user to change machines and for us as well.

Now we figured out that often the desktop icons are broken. llike ms word and excel icons can't open excel on another machine. though the software is the same. its even the same location it should find its exe file.

Anyone knows what causes this issue that desktop icons get broken using roaming profiles?

Greetings and thanks, Simon

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Hi, No all are 32 bit versions. the shortcuts where created manually by hand by basically going to the start menu and going to all programs and microsoft office and from there the icons are send to the desktop. Greetings, Simon Am 16.10.2017 um 18:45 schrieb Ratha Moeuy:

Is it possible that some machines has office Office 64bit and some has 32bit installed? Are shortcuts manually created within a template profile and used for romaing profile or were the shortcuts distributed via GPO?

-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Eigeldinger Simon Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 9:56 AM To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Roaming profiles and broken desktop icons

Hi all,

Anyone has seen that or knows how to fix it?

We have Windows 2008 R2 servers and Windows 7 Pro 64 bit machines. We have roaming profiles enabled to make it easy for the user to change machines and for us as well.

Now we figured out that often the desktop icons are broken. llike ms word and excel icons can't open excel on another machine. though the software is the same. its even the same location it should find its exe file.

Anyone knows what causes this issue that desktop icons get broken using roaming profiles?

Greetings and thanks, Simon

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Stadt Hohenems Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Straße 4 6845 Hohenems Österreich Tel.: +43 5576 7101-1143 Fax: +43 5576 7101-1149 E-Mail: simon.eigeldinger@hohenems.atmailto:simon.eigeldinger@hohenems.at Web: www.hohenems.athttp://www.hohenems.at

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Hi, Back in the days when I used such things I got this from time to time. I created a group for users who want Office on the desktop, then had a login script which copied the shortcuts for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook from the All Users folder to the desktop so it overwrote the existing file that was there. I spent ages trying to identify why it happened in the first place but I did have it. I eventually got rid of roaming profiles altogether and had a much easier life. If you have workstations with differing Office versions this did cause issues as you could end up with multiple version icons on the desktop. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] on behalf of Simon Eigeldinger via Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] Sent: 16 October 2017 18:58 To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Cc: Simon Eigeldinger Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Roaming profiles and broken desktop icons Hi, No all are 32 bit versions. the shortcuts where created manually by hand by basically going to the start menu and going to all programs and microsoft office and from there the icons are send to the desktop. Greetings, Simon Am 16.10.2017 um 18:45 schrieb Ratha Moeuy:

Is it possible that some machines has office Office 64bit and some has 32bit installed? Are shortcuts manually created within a template profile and used for romaing profile or were the shortcuts distributed via GPO?

-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Eigeldinger Simon Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 9:56 AM To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Roaming profiles and broken desktop icons

Hi all,

Anyone has seen that or knows how to fix it?

We have Windows 2008 R2 servers and Windows 7 Pro 64 bit machines. We have roaming profiles enabled to make it easy for the user to change machines and for us as well.

Now we figured out that often the desktop icons are broken. llike ms word and excel icons can't open excel on another machine. though the software is the same. its even the same location it should find its exe file.

Anyone knows what causes this issue that desktop icons get broken using roaming profiles?

Greetings and thanks, Simon

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