Best Practices for Deploying/Managing Desktop Shortcuts (URL and File Paths)

Question

I'm struggling to find information on this directly from Microsoft Learn.
I currently manage desktop icons with a Windows app (Win32) for the benefit of reporting and self healing. Has anyone seen new literature on a profile to make desktop shortcuts?
Is this still considered the best approach?

I'm specifically creating shortcuts for URLs and/or Filepaths. I bundle the ico, a cmd, and a ps1 into the intunewin. The cmd xcopies the ico to a local directory and calls the ps1 to create the shortcut with the known icon path. The hardest part of this process is honestly just finding/making favicons. I manage a number of tenants so copy/paste is getting tedious.

Answer 1

@Cam Long, Thanks for posting in Q&A.

From your description, I know you want to deploy shortcuts via Intune.

Based on my research, the method mentioned in the link provided by you is pretty good, but currently, and there is no better way to do that, but if there is any update or better, we will share the information with you.

Thanks for your kind understanding.

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