publish to office clients using Powershell

Question

Is there a way to define the links to publish to office clients using Powershell?

To do this action through the UI you would go through:

Central Admin --> Manage Service Applications --> User Profile SA --> Manage --> My Site Settings --> Publish Links to Office Client Applications

Also, for some reason, all links from the publishing site, are being published to office clients, even if they are NOT on this list. Any idea of what might be causing this behaviour?

Answer 1

I've just implemented something along these lines for users of Window 7, it's not quiet what you asked, but it should get you there.

1. Create a shortcut to the desired document library, typically this will point at \webApplicationHostHeader@DavWWWRoot\ServerRelativeListUrl or \webApplicationHostHeader@SSL\DavWWWRoot\ServerRelativeListUrl depending if you're working over SSL or not

2. $links = Join-Path $Home 'Links'

3. Copy your new .lnk file (shorcut) to $links

4. The user can now choose the list via the favourites section of the Save As dialog in Office clients.

You can of course create the shortcuts/.lnk files via powershell:

$wshshell = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell
$lnk = $wshshell.CreateShortCut("$home\Links\SharePointList.lnk")
$targetPath = "\\my.site.host@DavWWWRoot\subsite\list"
$lnk.TargetPath = $targetPath
$lnk.Description = "Shortcut to SharePoint List"
$lnk.Save()