As part of our Surface Pro pilot one issue raised is that the wallpaper, which is set by GPO, looks appalling when rotated to portrait. What I'd like to be able to do is specify a second wallpaper to use when the tablet changes orientation. There must be a way to do this, but my google-fu appears to be weak today. Can anyone give me any pointers?

Short answer is no you can`t have windows change the wallpaper automatically when you change orientation.

If you are using GPO to manage the Wallpaper you can only configure 1 wallpaper. SO you would need to let your user be able to change the wallpaper themselves if you want.

The easy thing would be to make sure the company wallpaper is made so that it look`s good on lot of different. If not what you could is use third party application that allow to set wallpaper depending on the resolution of the screen. Trust me this is a lot of hassle for something like this.

You will find a lot of amazing information about changing the background depending on the resolution https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/cefba120-10e1-4dfd-890f-a47e6df25159/change-background-image-depending-on-screen-resolution?forum=ITCG

• Edited by Frederick Dicaire 19 hours 30 minutes ago

Short answer is no you can`t have windows change the wallpaper automatically when you change orientation.

If you are using GPO to manage the Wallpaper you can only configure 1 wallpaper. SO you would need to let your user be able to change the wallpaper themselves if you want.

The easy thing would be to make sure the company wallpaper is made so that it look`s good on lot of different. If not what you could is use third party application that allow to set wallpaper depending on the resolution of the screen. Trust me this is a lot of hassle for something like this.

You will find a lot of amazing information about changing the background depending on the resolution https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/cefba120-10e1-4dfd-890f-a47e6df25159/change-background-image-depending-on-screen-resolution?forum=ITCG

• Edited by Frederick Dicaire Wednesday, August 05, 2015 11:55 AM

Hi,

I am so sorry to tell you that the wallpaper cant be changed automatically when you change the tablet orientation. Even if in Group Policy, you can just configure only one wallpaper.

In your question, you referred the wallpaper looks appalling when rotate to portrait. You can choose a wallpaper which adapts the resolution of the screen no matter what the screen orientation.

You can also contact Microsoft Support for Surface.

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-sg/support/contact-us/

Best Regards

Simon