Automated background wallpaper changes to every PC in my domain
HI,
I'm managing a small office. Does anyone know of a way i can set up all my PC's to change their wallpaper everyday?
PC's are Windows 7 x64. All PC's are on a domain. Running on Windows Server 2008 Standard
I know i can set a specific background for all PC's in my domain through GPO. But is there a way i can automate the background wallpaper to change to different backgrounds (that I specify) every day, etc?
I also know that in windows 7 there is an option to auto change my backgrouds to whatever time delays I'd like. But I don't want to go to every user and change it to that option and then direct it to the pictures I want.
BTW - I'm going to have my background pictures on a share drive, so that I can point my GPO setting or whatever to that for everybody. And I have the option to move/remove pictures from that folder as I see fit.
Thanks for any assistance.
April 22nd, 2010 8:15pm
so, is this just not possible through GPO? Anyone know of another way I can do this?
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April 23rd, 2010 3:28pm
Why don't you specify a wallpaper via GPO where that wallpaper is on a network share.
Then just change the wallpaper on the network drive everyday?
April 23rd, 2010 3:30pm
hmm. No, That's going to be too much effort to change it Everyday. Someone is going to forget/get too lazy to change it.
Is there maybe a script I can run to change my GPO to point to image1 then image2 then image3 etc.?
Thanks,
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April 23rd, 2010 3:59pm
It would be easier to have GPO point to an specific image then write a scheduled task (batch file) to replace the image each day. No messing with GPO, simple batch programming.Rich Why can't I be different and original like everybody else? - Vivian Stanshal
April 24th, 2010 4:04am
Hi,
I would like to share you the following article to configure Wallpaper.
Windows 7 RTM Issue with
Group Policy Enforced Wallpaper
Thanks,
Novak
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April 29th, 2010 4:42am