Comments on: Deploy Desktop Background Wallpaper using Group Policy

By: Arjun

Arjun

My wallpaper policy is working fine in domain network but goes black when gets disconnected from the domain network and my customer wants common wallpaper should be working in cache even they connect from different network

By: Prajwal Desai

Prajwal Desai

In reply to John Doe. I don't think that file extension is supported for wallpaper.

By: John Doe

John Doe

can we set .mp4 wallpaper from regedit or local group policy editor i mean to say without install any third party software by just edting or removing windows defult .jpg file format wallpaper into .mp4 file format wallpaper is their any process of its ???

By: Cortez

Cortez

This site was… how do I say it? Relevant!! Finally I’ve found something that helped me. Kudos!|

By: Zoran Tuvić

Zoran Tuvić

Hello Prajwal Desai, please can you help me. I deployed GPO on particular OU ( I call OU test2), in this OU I created GPO name DesktopWallpaper, follow your instruction but not working. I see tahs this GPO is applied to my test2 OU, but desktop wallpaper didn’t applied.
Please can you help me about my problem.

By: vikas

vikas

I have different situation, we set wallpaper through GPO using registry hive. It applied and working fine and allow user to change his desktop background. user able to change background but it policy reapplied when reboot machine.

Help me to with setting that this policy run only once after matching any condition.

We already set this policy as ” Apply once and do not reapply”. but not working.

Thanks

By: John Walker

John Walker

In reply to Kevin. Hey Kevin, can I have a SS of the seperate GPO to copy the file to local folder? Thanks so much, GREAT idea.

By: Kevin

Kevin

In reply to Ashish Patel. What I did in this scenario is, I created a seperate GPO to copy the desktop background to a public folder on the local machine and updated the desktop background GPO to that path, instead of directing them to a network folder that they may or may not have access to at certain times. This way every time they log in, the background file is always available to the users.

By: Anil

Anil

In reply to Yuvraj Ranajn. Can you plz tell me exact path?

By: MJ

In reply to Ashish Patel. Please check if the actual wallpaper path is correct by using this command line -gpresult /h result.html. Once the path is verified in result.html, check whether we can open the wallpaper file successfully. If all works, Please go this registry hive- "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" and check if the "Wallpaper" value exists.