Can anyone help me plaesee currently have roaming profiles all i want to do is add the school logo as a wallpaper when staff and pupil log on they see the school logo. How do i do that?
set the desktop background through a GPO, I'll just find the setting!
User Node > admin templates > desktop > ActiveDesktop > Active Desktop wallpaper
Last edited by buzzard; 19th March 2009 at 01:28 PM.
You could use BGINFO, just use pop it in netlogon and use it as a startup script. You can use it to display usernames etc... aswell.
Last edited by clarky2k3; 19th March 2009 at 02:05 PM.
There you go
thanx , i have already tried that but when the users log on the wall paper is not displayed is there something i'm not doing right?
Have you run Group Policy Results to see if the policy is being read?
To set the wallpaper put the .bmp into c:\windows, run regedit.
to set the pre logon wallpaper it needs to be put into HKEY_Current_user, Control Panel, Desktop, Wallpaper. To set the post logon background it's HKEY_USER, Default, Control Panel, Desktop, Wallpaper
That's a good idea if your network is under a lot of pressure and you want to restrict as much unnecessary traffic as you can.Originally Posted by Spitfire
will this work with mandatory profiles?
Yep. Before I used GP to get a background image from a central location I just created a background called BLISS.BMP and batch copied it to all desktops (BLISS.BMP being the standard background that all pupils got).
Please please can you help me i have set up the active directory wallpaper to display the school logo everything is configured however the logo is not being diplayed when the users logo on. I;m getting very frustrated and need some help please.
Put the wallpaper somewhere accessible (create a share on a server just for that if you must), I'd set the security to everyone:read
set the gpo as demonstrated by Alan-D above
ensure the gpo is linked to the right user group(s)
run gpupdate /force from a workstation and allow it to reboot at the end if it wants to
log in as one of the users you set it to work on
That WILL work - unless there's another gpo somewhere blattering it- best check the other gpo's just in case to make sure there's no wallpaper set in any of them.
Edit: oh oh oh if you have more than one DC make sure the replication's working too!
Last edited by BatchFile; 23rd March 2009 at 05:59 PM.
Also you will need to enable the active desktop policy as well as the wallpaper path.
many thanx, but it doesn't work it works fine on the server and it displays logo on the server and not on the other computers. when i go on to the computers and click on the display properties the logo is there but the backgroun tab is displayed so i can't select it.
help please
First thing to check is that the users can "see" the wallpaper image from a workstation and that it's where the GPO expects it to be. If they can, run gpupdate /force and reboot.
if neither of those fixes it, it's a case of double (or triple!) checking each of the steps above - it has to be one of those that's not quite right.
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