How to force wallpaper & screen saver by Windows Active Directory ?
- Menu Start
- Programs
- Administrative Tools
- Active Directory Users & Computers
- Right click -> your local domain (example mynetwork.com)
- Properties
- Choose control tab "Group Policy"
- Double click "Default Domain Policy"
- You will get window of "Group Policy" and there is 2 main items on root tree, "Computer Configuration" and "User Configuration".
- Choose the "User Configuration".
- You will get on tree : "Software Settings", "Windows Settings" and "Administrative Templates"
- Choose "Administrative Templates" tree.
[Force Wallpaper]
- In the Administrative Templates, Click Desktop
- Click "Active Desktop"
- Please enable :
- - Enable Active Desktop -> enabled
- - Prohibit Changes -> enabled
- - Active Desktop Wallpaper -> enabled
- * Type your wallpaper path file :
- * Example : \\10.20.2.2\wallscr\er_wall.jpg
- * Choose wallpaper style : strech
Next ...
[Force Screensaver]
- In the Administrative Templates Click Control Panel
- Click Display
- - Prevent changing wallpaper -> enabled
- - Screen Saver -> enabled
- - Screen saver executable name -> enabled
- * Type your screensaver path file :
- * Example: \\10.20.2.2\wallscr\er_scr.scr
- - Screen saver time out -> enabled
- * Set time out (in second)
- Please user to logout and login again (2 times)
- Finish
6 comments:
Thanks! Good option for customizing corporate environments and making it standardized! There's another tricky way to force different wallpaper and screensaver based on other options. For example, I prefer creating different settings for active desktop depending on the department user works in, its position and responsibilities and environment. Thus I sometimes set the Prohibit deleting items property for a user to prevent unintentional deletion. I also love to set Password protect the screen saver and Screen Saver timeout group policies located within the same Display container within the User configuration section of the GPO. Bear in mind that you might experience configuration problems if you are about to configure Windows XP RTM or Windows XP SP1. Additionally I use to protect shortcuts on a desktop to prevent users from deleting shortcuts to important documents and corporate norms that I put on their desktops. I found this especially effective for novice users. We don’t need to provide him with documents directly because we know he'll get the documents right on his desktop when he first logs in within the domain. And I don't need to put these documents on other user's desktops. I even remove these documents from that user computer desktop once they are subscribed. While that's hardly implementable using default configuration features and requires using ifmember tool from Windows Resource kit, security filtering like that with software deployment or ingroup function if you are using KIX scripting http://support.microsoft.com/kb/162793 like we used it to do in 90th it can be done in a snap with desktop management tool like Scriptlogic's Desktop Authority. Note that it is recommended that you disable the Active Desktop feature for user working through terminal sessions. That's why I always prefer separating configuration settings and policies with Desktop Authority. If you don't want screensaver to interrupt you during your presentation you can disable it once you are logging to domain with your laptop from another network. Very useful I don't even need to create separate OU with users who are working through a terminal. I just define a special rule that specifies that all users in Engineering department should get our corporate screensaver with a predefined timeout of 15 minutes that are recommended by Microsoft according to the Microsoft Windows 2000 Security Configuration Guide. At the same very moment some users which I can define specifically would be excluded from policy appliance *only*if they log into terminal session.
Problem:
I have a class-situation, 100 PC's, 1000 students. users have their own account and make a new profile based on the default profile every time they log on. The Pc's have reborn cards which prevent saving the profile. Keeps the systems clean. I want to use this method of forcing the wallpaper occasionaly. But students log on, create a new profile and get the default wallpaper. When they log of and log on again, they get the intended wallpaper. But which student is going to log on twice? Is there a way to force the wallpaper nonetheless?
This is great info to know.
ok that's fine, i just made tons of bran-new emo backgrounds in my blog
http://www.emo-backgrounds.info
[url=http://www.ganar-dinero-ya.com][img]http://www.ganar-dinero-ya.com/ganardinero.jpg[/img][/url]
[b]Toda la informacion que buscas sobre ganar dinero[/b]
Hemos hallado la mejor guia en internet de como ganar dinero internet. Como nos ha sido de interes para nosotros, tambien les puede ser de interes para ustedes. No son solo formas de ganar dinero con su pagina web, hay todo tipo de metodos de ganar dinero en internet...
[b][url=http://www.ganar-dinero-ya.com][img]http://www.ganar-dinero-ya.com/dinero.jpg[/img][/url]Te recomendamos entrar a [url=http://www.ganar-dinero-ya.com/]Ganar dinero[/url][url=http://www.ganar-dinero-ya.com][img]http://www.ganar-dinero-ya.com/dinero.jpg[/img][/url][/b]
Genial brief and this enter helped me alot in my college assignement. Thank you for your information.
Post a Comment