Adobe Reader DC Enterprise Deployment with MDT, Delete Desktop Icon or Prevent it

Question

Using MDT in my environment works flawlessly with the string: Msiexec.exe /qn /norestart /i "%deployroot%\Applications\AdobeReader\AcroRead.msi" but, I don't want the desktop icon to be displayed. Is there something I can add in the string to prevent this, or is there something I can do as a separate task to delete this icon after the deployment/install task?

Answer 1

Hi,

Per my experience, you could try to add a batch file as an application to run below command with Windows Admin account to delete the desktop shortcut after application installation.
del "%PUBLIC%\Desktop\filename.lnk"

Here is a similar thread
MDT 2012 - Delete/Clean-up shortcuts in C:\Users\Public\Desktop
Note: The non-Microsoft link is just for your reference.

Hope it helps. Thanks for your time.

Best regards,
Simon

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Answer 2

I ended up having to create a new Task Sequence command calling a batch file with the following command, because even with the quotes, it didn't seem to like the spaces.

del /F /Q "C:\users\public\Desktop\*DC.lnk"