User defined custom Windows theme is not saved during roaming profile syncronization

Hi,

We have Windows 8.1 computers in a 2012 domain. The user profiles is roamed to a file server during logon and logoff.

We have excluded many folders under appdata\roaming and appdata\local and was also excluding \AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes, but included this folder again in the roaming profile.

Our problem is that the users is saving a custom Windows theme, but when logging out and in again the settings is still there, but after a while the custom color settings set back to Windows defaults.

We are using VMware View 5.3 and are using non-persistent pools, this means that the users get a new "computer" every time they login and at logoff the computer is reset/revert to default snapshot and given to another user.

Therefore most of the settings under Local appdata and all localow appdata files and configurations is reset at logoff for users.

what is the required files/folders/registry keys to fully support custom Windows themes ? If we have that info we can include the necessary files in our user enviroment.

we have not found any userful info on the web for this specific issue.

March 19th, 2015 4:58am

Hi,

In my opinion, you can try to create a new Default User Profile on this system and mondify its defualt theme as you want. Because everytime new user login, it would generate the new user profile based on Default User Profile.

You can refer to the content below for more details:

Customize the default local user profile when preparing an image of Windows:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/973289

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March 23rd, 2015 1:42am

Hi,

In my opinion, you can try to create a new Default User Profile on this system and mondify its defualt theme as you want. Because everytime new user login, it would generate the new user profile based on Default User Profile.

You can refer to the content below for more details:

Customize the default local user profile when preparing an image of Windows:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/9732

March 26th, 2015 10:20am

Hi,

I doubt there is no way to achieve your goals directly, because as we know, roaming profile would load default profile when user log on. A workaround method you can try is write an automatically script using cmlet or powershell. Task Plan is also considerable.

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March 27th, 2015 4:54am

Hi,

I doubt there is no way to achieve your goals directly, because as we know, roaming profile would load default profile when user log on. A workaround method you can try is write an automatically script using cmlet or powershell. Task Plan is also considerable.

April 7th, 2015 6:00am

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