I'm beating my head against a brick wall here.
I have a GPO with Computer Preferences specified for common shortcuts on the %CommonDesktopDir% linked to the Computer OU.
Workstations are mix bag of Win7 & WinXP (sp3 w/ CSEs installed)
Out of say, 20 workstations, 3 of them have an issue with the shortcuts. Those workstations cannot read the shortcut. Local administrator does not have permissions to delete the icons. These icons are truly pooched. Rebooting sometimes fixes the problem. Performing a GPUpdate /force /target:Computer usually fixes the problem. But, the problem will return, a week or two weeks later.
I enabled debugging and pulled the trace log. (there are 4 shortcuts, below is one of them. All 4 give the same error and verbage)
2013-02-08 16:26:27.351 [pid=0x308,tid=0x82c] {4F2F7C55-2790-433e-8127-0739D1CFA327}2013-02-08 16:26:27.367 [pid=0x308,tid=0x82c] Starting class <Shortcut> - HelpDesk.
2013-02-08 16:26:27.367 [pid=0x308,tid=0x82c] Shortcut file path is valid
2013-02-08 16:26:27.367 [pid=0x308,tid=0x82c] Target type is a URL
2013-02-08 16:26:27.383 [pid=0x308,tid=0x82c] Error writing the shortcut file [ hr = 0x80004005 "Unspecified error" ]
2013-02-08 16:26:27.383 [pid=0x308,tid=0x82c] Properties handled. [ hr = 0x80004005 "Unspecified error" ]
2013-02-08 16:26:27.398 [pid=0x308,tid=0x82c] EVENT : The computer 'HelpDesk' preference item in the 'CO ICONS CORP Standard
set 11/17/11 AS {BB8F53F8-826F-49BD-9FA2-3EBCA5F81512}' Group Policy object did not apply because it failed with
error code '0x80004005 Unspecified error'%100790273
2013-02-08 16:26:27.398 [pid=0x308,tid=0x82c] Error suppressed. [ hr = 0x80004005 "Unspecified error" ]
2013-02-08 16:26:27.398 [pid=0x308,tid=0x82c] Completed class <Shortcut> - HelpDesk.
Can't seem to find much on this anywhere and the "Unspecified Error" & "0x80004005" seems to be a common error that no-one seems to find the answer to.
Thoughts?Comments?Suggestions?