Make a metro tile for all users

I have a single WIndows Server 2012 running RDS with Desktop Experience Enabled.
what I'm trying to figure out is how to create a Modern UI set of tiles that all users get on this box. presently, we log in as each user and add all the tiles manually.
Is there a way to create a tile group and ensure that each user gets that set of tiles?
For example: A tiles group called "Partner Websites" with individual tiles that are shortcuts to different websites?
I don't have a lot of users in my company, but it's still a pain to have to reset up all tiles the same way for each user manually.
In Xp/Vista/Win7 it used to be you could drop desktop or start menu shortcuts for "all users". Looking for the equivalent in Windows Server 2012 with Metro.
Bob

Hi,
Thanks for posting here.
Regarding your request, maybe we could deploy the metro tile via GPP. For details, please refer to the following article.
Deploy Windows 8 Start Tiles Using Group Policy Preferences
http://skatterbrainz.blogspot.in/2012/11/deploy-windows-8-start-tiles-using.html
Hope it helps.
Best Regards,
Andy Qi
Andy Qi
TechNet Community Support

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