How to create web app shortcut on user's desktop programmatically?

javascript asp.net web-applications client-side intranet
Tejas picture Tejas · Jan 27, 2011 · Viewed 14k times · Source

For enterprise intranet web application, is there any way to create a desktop shortcut of web application on user's desktop? I'm looking for functionality similar to Google Gears, but without installing Google Gears. I'm looking to give user's a link on web application that says "Click here to install desktop shortcut", when they click on it, a desktop shortcut is installed with the custom icon for our application. Is there a way to do it using javascript or any other client side technologies? I don't want to run any exe on user's machines. Even though it's intranet, I have to jump through lot of corporate hoops, compliance approvals, etc to run exe on their machine. We are trying to avoid that, due to time constraints. User machines are windows XP with IE6 installed. They may all upgrade within next year's time to Windows 7 with IE8. Intranet web application in question is developed using asp.net 3.5, c#.

Answer

NotMe picture NotMe · Jan 27, 2011

If this is really a corporate environment then just go talk to the network operations team.

It should be trivial for them to add something to the login script to push this link to the people's desktops.

More Info:
http://www.petri.co.il/forums/showthread.php?t=6154
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverGP/thread/02a7bfbb-180f-40eb-82e3-2343b2bf31eb

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