Background image via GP

[samaco]

A local charity school has a free educational Azure account from Microsoft and Windows server 2016 on-premise.

There is not any important information or policy to export before formatting the on-premise server.

I upgraded the drives to SSD then installed Windows server 2019. I promoted the server to DC and enabled the Hyper-V.

They want to disable USB, configure background image, create OU for each class....etc

I created a new subnet for the server and one computer to test everything before joining the rest of computers to the new domain.

I managed to disable the USB via group policy then added the provided image to be used as a background image. Those two policies are successfully applied but I the background image disappeared when I changed the DNS. I revert the DNS to the domain one but the configured image is still not showing. I deleted the user profile from the registry and it is working now.

 

I am wondering if this is a normal behavior or I misconfigured the background image on the server side.

Shall I configure the background image on the on-prem and on Azure or just on on-prem. Please advise.