Teams Desktop Shortcut Duplication when redirecting to OneDrive

[CrootUK]

Hello,

 

We are testing folder redirection to point at OneDrive over KFM so we can direct downloads etc too, we are facing an issue where the Teams Shortcut is duplicated when signing in for fresh on a new machine / new profile, has anyone experienced this? appreciate any suggestions thank you.

[thimon]

We had the same here. Set via Group Policy to delete the shortcut from the Desktop, it's not needed.

[DalekSec]

We found that no one really uses desktop icons anymore, we pin Teams to the taskbar instead. Anything website related we have as a bookmark in edge.

[CrootUK]

Have tried the same, in my experience the GPO to delete the shortcut ran before the shortcut was created.

 

Also tried the script way which seems unreliable and OneDrive still prompts that it couldn't merge the files, so its quite dirty.

 

We have users that love the desktop lets say.

Edited February 11, 2022 by CrootUK

[thimon]

Delete Group Policy settings run periodically and continuously, doesn't matter if the shortcut is created after user logon (for example).

 

I've got the below set as Delete:

 

%onedrivesync%\Desktop\Microsoft Teams-*.lnk

 

I've also got the below running as a user logon script, which does the job. I may have that set as the above doesn't work, can't remember, too long ago, it's Friday afternoon...

 

cd %onedrivesync%\Desktop & del "Microsoft Teams-*.lnk"

[CrootUK]

I have tried the above exactly and no success, a duplicate shortcut still remains on the desktop on first login even after some time.

Works on 2nd login, but most of the time our students are signing in for the first time to there desktops, signing out and then onto the next machine for the first time as we run delprof etc.

Edited February 16, 2022 by CrootUK

[tangotech]

I've got the same issue as you CrootUK ... can't seem to find a solution that works.

[mrnoisy]

We had this issue, ours are hybrid managed sccm / endpoint managed intune enrolled so we just set a policy to exclude sync the teams.lnk file. Does the job for us but appreciate you may not be setup the same.