Question : GPO for desktop icons in Windows Server 2008 R2

The method of disabling 'Administrative Templates\Desktop\Remove My Computer icon on the desktop' etc policy settings to force the icon to be visible on desktop doesn't seem to work on Windows Server 2008 R2.
I've for the moment forced Computer icon by creating a shortcut in public desktop by using GPP, but want if possibly to avoid the shortcuts.
Is there any policy setting to force displaying the core objects for the desktop icons in 'Desktop' -> ''Personalize' -> 'Change desktop icons' by using GPO?

Answer : GPO for desktop icons in Windows Server 2008 R2

Summarizing before restaring closing process

http:#25859205 - There is no standard policy setting to control this.

The standard policy settings will only control if users are allowed to display the desktop icons or not. It will not force it when user hasn't already configured that he want to display the icons.

When user configure this through the GUI, the setting is stored in the registry values in http:#25863189
To solve the issue, we create a registry GPP (Preferences\Windows Settings\Registry) configuring the values to 0 (0=display, 1=hide)

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel
Computer: {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
Recycle Bin: {5399E694-6CE5-4D6C-8FCE-1D8870FDCBA0}
Documents: {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}

Also the following can be managed, but we don't nead it for the moment
Network: {F02C1A0D-BE21-4350-88B0-7367FC96EF3C}.

For IE icon, {871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D} will work when having older OS than Win7/2008R2. As per MS KB, it's no longer supported to add the core object icon for IE through registry. The only way to add IE icon on desktop in the new OS is to create a shortcut.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976915 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945402
However, as posted in the blog link from http:#25863182, the IE icon *might* be possibly to get back in Win7. As posted in the blog comments, it both works and not. As MS official regret this in the KB links above, it propably only worked in beta of the new OS or some other special unofficial reason.