Thursday, 16 February 2023

Using Group Policy to deploy wallpaper to domain machines

On the server open up internet explorer, go to the website bing.com ( google may run slow ) . Search for an image of your choice





Right click on the image - and save it to the Pictures folder on the server as a bmp file 





Right click on the pictures folder and click share with specific people





Ensure everyone is added if not click the drop down box and add tick read/write and click share






Do the same for the file you want to use for example here I have right clicked on burnley2 and clicked share with specific people











Ensure Everyone + Read/write is selected and click share






You should see the below screen with the file name location listed. Mine is 


\\SERVER1\Users2\Administrator\Pictures\Burnley2.bmp







On server manager, click tools then Group policy management 






Right click Group Policy Objects - Click New 





Type Wallpaper then click ok







Now right click Wallpaper in the Group Policy Objects folder and click edit




Expand user configuration -> policies -> administrative templates then click desktop and on the right hand side click desktop wallpaper









Click enabled - type the full file path into the Wallpaper name , and select style as center or fill ( however you want the logo to appear. Click apply 









Go back to the group policy management console and right click your domain name - click Link an existing GPO






Select wallpaper






On the Windows 10 machine open cmd prompt 


Type gpupdate /force 




You should see the below message that is has been successfully update. Close the command prompt window and restart the windows 10 machine





Login with a user and you should see your logo if you have been successful :) 




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