northeast_technician

will check in morning as i am off site and it wont let me remote in for some reason. surly it is running though if it has copied the file?

will check, run that on workstation yeah?

yeah the background is there its just not using it

action-create or replace

when setting the action for the file, should it be replace, update or create

it is there but has called itself background not backgrounddefault so the policy is running its just not setting the picture to the login screen, not sure why it is a different name

here is my gpo

yes and restarted the machine several times over the last day or so

its 60kb

I dont know whats going wrong, I have done everything said and it still doesnt change the background. I have even made the gpo enforced

which image does it replace or do i need to set the gpo to create?

cant for some reason get this to do the job, even tried taking out the \info section and just replaced the background image but with no joy. any ideas what may be going wrong

Hello, I modified my managed software install gpo to remove an old version of java and install the latest version. now every time it hangs at the uninstall even if i remove the network connection and manually uninstall said version of java. Any ideas what might be going wrong? Thanks in advance ps the work stations are win7 pro

no, actually replacing the background image. thanks though

7 pro edition

Hello, I have created a custom welcome / login screen for one of the schools that I work at. How do I set the gpo to use it? its server 2008r2 by the way Thanks

suppose thats just MS for you though. Thanks for you help guys as always

Hi I wonder if anyone can help. I want to be able to set my windows 7 workstations so that when they are going through the start up procedure it displays what policies are being loaded and what software is being installed through assigned applications gpo. Can anyone help Thanks

that would be right, never just a 2 second fix is it!

Hello, We have just purchased reflector for school and i want to roll it out over msi which isn't a problem as it downloads in the form of an msi anyways. What I want to know is can I edit the msi to include the product serial number, more so than nothing just to save time going back to the machine to install the serial which for 10 machines kind of defeats the object of deploying via gpo in the first place. As always any advice or tips and tricks would be more than welcome.

yes, tried the resolution at the bottom with very little success. Realistically is the best option to scrap 8.1 and just have whole school on win7

Help! I have been forced into keeping some new laptops with windows8.1 running. We currently have server 2008r2 running 3 hv servers all with server 2008r2. All of our windows 7 laptops work fine with students and staff using roaming profiles. Windows 8.1 however is another matter. Some students and staff have had no issues what so ever while some just want to give up in frustration, with shared network drives, documents, start menus etc all running over roaming profiles not coming up. Plus i have dont login with temp profile enabled. Could anyone help or advise on this? Thanks in advance

I will be honest, I didn't I went to the vendor

ok so I didn't tell the whole truth, I did downgrade but couldn't find working drivers for windows 7 the main issues with gpo that I am having firstly the proxy settings are not always being pulled through. secondly we run a lot of software direct from the sever and push them out to windows 7 machines through the start menu as windows 8 doesn't have one as such and I don't think classic shell pulls gpo through is my only option to push these direct to desktop?

Hello I am after some help and advice. We are running server 2008r2 in school and have recently purchased some new laptops which have come with windows 8.1 pro and cant be downgraded to windows 7 so I am stuck with 8.1 I am having various issues with gpo's in windows 8.1 is it down to the fact we are running 2008r2 and not 2012. I don't really want to upgrade to 2012 just yet as I cant really stand it if I am honest. but my hand may be forced if there is no other way around it. Also is it possible to send a gpo out to customise the start screen or is it best to put something like classic shell on the machines and set force to desktop on boot. Any advice would be welcomed greatly. Thanks