Okay, so I have been getting pretty frustrated on this one so let me tell you what we do today and maybe that will help me with what I am trying to accomplish:

We use a simple script in an MDT Task sequence for Windows 8.1 machines to apply an "IT version of the Start Menu"  and after their machines are theirs they can customize the start menu any which way they choose.  We have a few "core apps" pinned to this menu and now one of the needs to be updated.  The application in question is a 2014 version of a viewer and we are moving to 2015 but anywho:

The viewer is a virtualized application running App-V 5.0 SP2.  I have attempted to modify the .lnk file to point to the new but I still need to keep the folder structure the same and I feel this is a sloppy way of doing it.  If I did it that way I would want a different way to deploy to Windows 7 machines as well.  So my idea (dumb or not) was to have a script handle it this way if possible:

1.  Export the current start menu layout of the user to an XML

2.  Inject and overwrite section where the APPID=Microsoft.Appv.58bxxxxxxxxx" where the line of code sits to add new code (if not exist do nothing)

3.  Export Start Layout from XML to BIN (Can this be done or can I convert the XML to BIN?)

4   Install Appv Application

5   Import Start Layout and new 2015 version of viewer with other pinned apps show up. 

Is there a better way or do I really have to do all of this?  Much appreciated as always on these.

Thanks,

Mike

• Edited by Mike Snodgrass Wednesday, September 02, 2015 9:22 PM