Is it possible to change the wall paper you get at the log in screen via group policy? I know you can easily change it in the registry on each machine but i need it to be done on all our pc's in the company. Ive had a quick look around but couldnt find anything, can this be done by group policy?
If I see it correctly you want your uses to have corporate wallpaper set on their desktop right after they log in to their machines. As it was allready said there, surely, you can do that. You need to use group policy administrative templates. But it's better to use desktop management tools in such cases. Wallpaper is one of such kind of settings that are subject to change. Not so frequently, but every change brings a little mess if you need to restructure and rebuild previous changes. We made our wallpaper assignments with Desktop Authority from Scriptlogic. It allows creating profiles where we can apply different settings for different users or groups. For example, we can assign standart wallpaper for default domain user. But then we can add an exception when for example we want all users from some project or department to have different wallpaper. We don't need to rewrite the whole procedure, we just add an exclusion using boolean logic or create another settings profile with new wallpaper.
squarednull, what i actually meant was the to change the wall paper on the logon screen... see the below link is how to change it on the registry but i was wondering if you could do this via group policy?
1. the wallpaper viewed at login is not in group policy.
2. the other guy sounds like he works for script logic - and i think there is a much easier solution
I can't verify right now, but I am 99% sure you can change registry values via GP. if so, you just need to save the reg file and deploy it. do some googling on that.
another option might be to try a vbscript like this. I couldn't get it to change to another picture, but only the blue - so test it first
http://62left.com/docs/changelogoffwallpaper/
let me know if either of those work for you or not. I am positive there is a way to do this w/o visiting each computer.
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