Create shortcut on workstation using group policy Posted on April 11, 2011 by dpejic In my case, I had a shared folder on the server and I wanted to create a shortcut to a client machine that will point to shared folder on the server. I have done the following: I created a shortcut in shared folder that we will serve as a distribution point for client In shortcut I point to the location of my shared folder that i won’t client to open I made a GPO with a logon script .bat that executes the following copy /y "\\den-dc1 \clientshare\shortcutName.url" "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\"