(203) Microsoft Intune - RDP Shortcuts on Start Menu

Been working with a customer on building out their personas for:

• Corporate (User Driven deployment) where it is 1 to 1

• Kiosk

• Shared PC

Where they have requested to have the 'RDP' shortcuts pinned to the start menu, I remember in Windows 10 we could this but in Windows 11 it doesn't allow it BUT I have managed to find a way.

Preparation:

• Create a folder like C:\RDP

• Create a Remote Desktop and save it somewhere, call it whatever you want and customise it like RDPTEST.rdp

• In the same folder, right click on RDPTEST.rdp and select create shortcut.

• Rename C:\RDP\RDPTEST.rdp.lnk - copy TO C:\RDP\RDPTEST.rdp.lnk

• Right click on it by selecting show more then selecting properties

• Update target to explorer C:\RDP\RDPTEST.rdp and apply changes.
  

  

• This will change the folder icon to explorer, but will allow you to pin to the Start Menu

  
  

  

  

  This will pin the RDP to the start menu.

  

Time to wrap it up as a win32 app, this is what I have done for Kiosk and Shared:

Install.ps1 script

New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path "C:\RDP"
Copy-Item -Path "$PSScriptRoot\RDPTEST.rdp" -Destination "C:\RDP\RDPTEST.rdp"
Copy-Item -Path "$PSScriptRoot\RDPTEST.rdp.lnk" -Destination "C:\RDP\RDPTEST.rdp.lnk"
Copy-Item -Path "$PSScriptRoot\RDPTEST.rdp.lnk" -Destination "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\RDPTEST.rdp.lnk"

Detect.ps1

if ((Test-Path "C:\RDP\RDPTEST.rdp") -and (Test-Path "C:\RDP\RDPTEST.rdp.lnk")) {"Installed"}

Once the app is packaged, you can add the app to the ESP. Once the ESP finishes, on first logon you will see it.