Manage the Users Pinned Taskbar Items via registry

If you are delivering a Published Desktop on Server 2008 then you will no doubt be unhappy with the microsoft delivered set of pinned taskbar items.

Server Manager 

PowerShell

you probably dont want your users to see these, so i remove the everyone and Userr groups from the NTFS permissions for these icons located in the following locations

•%AllUsersProfile%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\Windows PowerShell\Windows PowerShell.lnk

•%AllUsersProfile%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools\Server Manager.lnk

•%AllUsersProfile%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools\Windows PowerShell Modules.lnk

Adding Custom Taskbar pinned items

If you also wish to pre-populate the users some of your own pinned items to the taskbar then you need to manage the following registry key (its a reg_Binary so rip it from a known good setup) and file path

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband  

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartPage2

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned