Pinning Icons to the Windows 7 Taskbar

The Deployment Guys posted an article a couple of months back on how to script pinning shortcuts to the Windows 7 Taskbar.
http://blogs.technet.com/deploymentguys/archive/2009/04/08/pin-items-to-the-start-menu-or-windows-7-taskbar-via-script.aspx

However, the scripting method won't work during an SCCM OSD deployment as the task sequence runs in the Local System context which has no shell access and the script depends on the Explorer shell because it is executing shell verbs.

So, there's another way:
You can copy icons to the C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar folder if you want to make them available to all profiles created AFTER you've copied icons into it.

This is handy I find when creating images as it allows for quick customisations to the taksbar that will affect all users loging onto the machine after it's had the image deployed to it and can easily be added as a "Run Command Line" task in an SCCM OSD Task Sequence.

If the folder doesn't exist (Doesn't by default if I remember correctly) then just create it. I also then set it to hidden like it is in a normal user profile, but I'm just a neat freak :P

Also, if you use a reference computer to set the icons in the order that you require, exporting the data from this registry key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband] will then allow you to re-import it into the default users profile to affect the icon order for all your users.