Jim Kenzig ThinHelp.com <> wrote on Wednesday, May 09, 2007 2:03 PM:
I tried, didn't work. This particular msi is tweaked from the provider,
and
not following any standards, as standards go with msi-packages.
Both the msi and script in the GPO are at the machine level.
> Why don't you edit the MSI to remove the icon from there? Lots of free
> utilities out there that will let you edit MSI's. The other question is
> whether the script is at the machine level in the policy or the user
level?
> It depends on where you put it. JK
>
>
> On 5/9/07, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Suppose I have a GPO that I deploy an msi-package with, and I also
have a
> startup-script in the same GPO. Which of them gets run first? The
msi
or
> the script?
>
> Reason for this question is that I'd like to remove the
desktop-icon
the
> msi creates. So far no tweaking of the msi has helped, so I revert
to
a
> rather crude method of running a conditional test in the
startup-script to
> test for if the programname.lnk exists in
> %allusersprofile%\Desktop-folder. If it does, it deletes it
quietly.
>
> Obviously, if the script is run before the msi, there won't be a
> desktop-shortcut to remove and therefore the icon won't be removed
until
> the next time the computer is rebooted. Thus the question of
execution
> order.
>
> TIA.
>
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>
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>
> Sorin
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