With the copy command you can copy shortcuts on the desktop.

Make on one computer the shortcuts and put them in a share on the server and then copy them with

shell "%COMSPEC% /c copy \\SERVER\SHARE\*.LNK C:\docume~1\@USERID\desktop /y /q /s"

There is actualy something tricky unde Windows 2000. because the userid can change and you have to look in de c:\document and settings.
In my case the username XXX was on seperate systems XXX, XXX.domainname or XXX.000.
Depent on XXX already exists on the system.