[THIN] Re: Utility to generate custom start menus based on NT Gro up membersh ip.
- From: Angus Macdonald <Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 15:47:08 +0100
Do you mean the client machines local desktop or the published desktop?
The new version 1.1 (Jim has just posted it to
http://thethin.net/startbuild.zip) allows you to generate custom desktops as
well as start menus. You can also include non-shortcut files and specify
file types you want to be left alone when generating the desktop, so you
could push .ica files to the published desktop, if you wanted to.
Thinking about it, I can't think of any reason why the util shouldn't work
on client machines local desktops as well. You'd need a centralised icon
repository and possibly a spot of shortcut link-tracking removal along with
careful system policy use, but it should work. Only for NT clients though.
Regards
Angus
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Kenzig [mailto:jimkenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 13 September 2002 15:29
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Utility to generate custom start menus based on NT
Gro up membersh ip.
Yes
An .ica file can be pushed out to the destop as an icon that will launch an
app. It makes it so you do not have to visit each desk and create the
connection in Program neighborhood for each user.
JK
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Angus Macdonald
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 4:16 PM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: Utility to generate custom start menus based on NT
Gro up membersh ip.
Not sure I'm 100% following that one Jim ;-) Do you mean save .ica files as
well? Perhaps I could incorporate a way to include or exclude any particular
file types?
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Kenzig [mailto:jimkenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 September 2002 17:10
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Utility to generate custom start menus based on NT
Gro up membersh ip.
Make it be able to copy a .ica file out also.
JK
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Angus Macdonald
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 11:47 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Utility to generate custom start menus based on NT
Gro up membersh ip.
Working on it now. Shouldn't take long ;-) It will only replace desktop .lnk
files, in case people save documents to the desktop. Maybe I'll include a
switch to toggle that.
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Boggan [mailto:MBoggan@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 September 2002 18:15
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: Utility to generate custom start menus based on NT
Gro up membersh ip.
Oh yeah...we for the most part disable start menus. Everything they run is
from a icon on the published desktop. If I had a util like this to build
the desktop for each user it would be GREAT!!!
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-----Original Message-----
From: Angus Macdonald [mailto:Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 9:29 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Utility to generate custom start menus based on NT
Gro up membersh ip.
Nice idea. We disable desktop shortcuts here, so it never entered my mind.
Perhaps for v1.1?
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Boggan [mailto:MBoggan@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 September 2002 18:11
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: Utility to generate custom start menus based on NT
Gro up membersh ip.
SUGGESTIONS?? A util just like that but to build a desktop for each user
would be nice.
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Michael Boggan
Network Engineer/Citrix Admin
Virtual Desktop Inc.
Dallas, Texas
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-----Original Message-----
From: Angus Macdonald [mailto:Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 7:39 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Utility to generate custom start menus based on NT Group
membersh ip.
A while back somebody on the list mentioned that he (or possibly she) used
scripting to generate a start menu for his (or her) published desktop
sessions based on NT Group memberships. That sounded like such a good idea
to me that I've written a small utility to do the same thing without the
need for any complex scripting. Any NT groups you choose may have shortcuts
associated with them and if a user belongs to multiple groups they get all
the icons associated with all the groups they belong to. This seems better
than system policy based custom menus to me, since only a single custom
folder can apply to a given user with that method.
With this method you could create a number of NT groups and associate a
single icon with each if you wanted, allowing you to precisely specify the
contents of the start menu.
I'm giving it away for free. Mail me off-list if you'd like a copy.
Sorry if anyone sees this as Spam, and further apologies to whoever came up
with the idea in the first place ;-)
Regards
Angus
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