Application Installs

Question

Hello,

I setup a Host Pool with two VM's. I logged in as an Administrator and installed an application and I selected it for it to be available to all users. One of my employees then logged in to her account in the same host pool but the application was not installed on her account. Any idea why this would be? I am just trying to install applications as the administrator so they don't have to be reinstalled on each account.

Thanks

Answer 1

Good Morning,

Thank you for the reply. I checked and the icons are in the Public Desktop but when an employee logs into their account, there is no reference to the program anywhere on their account.

Answer 2

Hello @Travis P ,

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A platform. Happy to answer your question.

Some program installers only create the application's shortcuts in the account that was used to install the program. Typically all one needs to do to make the program accessible to all users on the computer is copy these shortcuts to a location that all users can access, such as the Public Desktop or Start Menu. To do so:

Find the application's shortcut icon(s) in the installing user's account. Common places where icons are created:
User's Start Menu:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs1
User's Desktop:
C:\Users\<username>\Desktop2
Copy the shortcut(s) to one or both of the following locations:
All Users' Desktop:
C:\Users\Public\Public Desktop
All Users' Start Menu:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Program

Note : AppData dir is hidden directory. You might need to enable Show hidden files in your directory view.

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