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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 :) 




Install Active Directory

 

Open Oracle Virtual box







Select the server - right click on SATA Port 1 and remove disk from virtual drive




Select the Windows 10 machine - right click on SATA port 1 and remove disk from virtual drive 






Click the yellow cog , select network and change the attached to to Bridged adapter. Your name will differ from the example below. Repeat this for the server virtual machine



Select server and click the green start arrow




Enter the server Password


Click cancel on the below pop up




Press the Windows + X key select system





Click change settings



Change computer description to DC







Click change computer name to Server1


Click ok to apply the settings





Click restart now


Log in to the server







Click cancel on pop up







Press the Windows + X key click network connections






Right click on the ethernet connection






Click properties






Make sure IPv6 is unchecked and click ok 




Type firewall into the search bar and select Windows firewall 





Select Windows Firewall properties





Turn the firewall state off for domain profile , private profile and public profile  




Press the windows + x key and select system





Select remote settings






Select allow remote connections to this computer





Press the Windows + X key and select command prompt



Type ipconfig


You should be presented with similarities to the below my server IP address is 172.26.1.157 ( yours will be different - make a note of your number its important!) 






Press the windows + S key and typer server manager into the search bar




Click Add roles and features




Click Next 





Ensure role-based or feature based installation is checked





Ensure your server is selected and the IP address matches what was presented in previous steps under IP config 




Select Active Directory Domain Services





Click Add Features and click next





Click next on the features window





Click Next on the Active Directory Domain Services 




Click install confirmation 





Once the installation is complete - click Promote this server to a domain controller




Select Add a new forest and type in your root domain name mine is benscott.local yours could be your name plus .local




Change Forest functional level & Domain functional level to Windows Server 2012 R2 and type a password that you will remember in the password box and click next 





Click next on DNS options





The NetBios domain name should populate to the name you called your domain. Click next


Click next on paths





Click next on review options





Click install on Prerequisites Check ( This installation could take up to 15minutes and the server will restart )






Type your password you should now notice the domain \ admin logged in is displayed

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