Please Create start menu shortcuts for all users (installation)

[pfoppe]

The windows start menu shortcuts (both win10 and win7) are only created for the individual user installing the SW; the shortcuts are not created for other users that may login to the machine. It looks like the start menu shortcut ended up in the installing users %appdata% start menu location. Other users that login to the machine will not have the icons available to them in the start menu. Our organizational users are not allowed to install SW themselves, instead an IT administrator will login to their machine and install the software that is on our software baseline.

We built a quick windows .bat script to copy those shortcuts to the 'all users' location (and provided information to our desktop support teams):

set installer_start_menu="%appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ArcGIS\TilePackageKreator"
set all_users_start_menu="C:\Users\All Users\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ArcGIS\TilePackageKreator"
robocopy %installer_start_menu% %all_users_start_menu% "Tile Package Kreator.lnk"

Please consider creating shortcuts in all users start menu. Thanks!

[marikavertzonis]

@pfoppe - your message above implies that you already have a script that has copied the shortcuts, and they work. but does the app run? our expectation would be that it doesn't, because the user doesn't have access to the app files. if it does run (that's cool but unexpected!), where are tile packages saved to locally when you choose to do so? ie: is it a path that looks like this: C:\Users\username\ArcGIS\My Tile Packages