Creating MS Teams Shortcut

[localpct]

Hello,
I'm noticing a few users don't have the shortcut for teams on their desktop but the app is installed. There a are a few of them, but it's annoying to just remote in and create a shortcut for them manually. I was looking for a way to do this in PSS and a form.

The problem I'm getting is when I create the shortcut, I recieve the error "Value does not fall within the expected range."

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1. $WshShell = New-Object -comObject WScript.Shell
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3. $Shortcut = $WshShell.CreateShortcut("C:\Users\user\TestTeams.lnk")
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5. $Shortcut.TargetPath = C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams\Update.exe --processStart "Teams.exe"
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7. $Shortcut.Save()

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I've tried single quotes around the whole .targetpath line but that also returns the same failure.

[jvierra]

"TargetPath" can only specify the path to a file and no arguments.

[localpct]

But it's odd because I can do it manually with right click, create shortcut and paste in the exact string and it works just fine

[jvierra]

The wizard hides all things difficult for human masters. You need to think like a computer to understand these secrets of the electron.

The following will confuse you a bit more but try it anyway.

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$WshShell = New-Object -comObject WScript.Shell
$Shortcut = $WshShell.CreateShortcut('C:\Users\user\TestTeams.lnk')
$Shortcut.TargetPath = 'C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams\Update.exe'
$Shortcut.Arguments = '--processStart Teams.exe'
$Shortcut.Save()

[localpct]

Perfect. Extremely grateful.