Sharing A Standard Shortcut on a Network

I ran into a bit of an interesting issue today as we’re getting ready to launch a new application in an office. The application is an Access .ade file that’s hitting a SQL 2005 Express database on the server. The .ade file is located on a shared network drive. We wanted to email a shortcut .lnk file to all the users that they could drag from their email to their desktops and use.
Our first thought was that we could attach the shortcut file into the email using the standard attachment tool of clicking on the paperclip, but that attached the …read more