13. Deploy Desktop Background Wallpaper using Group Policy

In this Video we will see how to use Group Policy to configure Desktop Wallpaper in Windows Server 2016. The policy configures same wallpaper on all user desktop.

[ianfernandes]

Thank you Sir. Very Good teacher, amazing voice . Total value of time.

[yjwqscs]

Thank you this really helped me for school😄

[doyinsolatitilayo]

It worked for me. But anytime users sign in to their PC when they are not connected to the AD network the wallpaper disappears. How can I go about preventing wallpaper disappearing when not connected to the office network

[jigneshkhambhati]

One more thing also i want to add that we are using VNC software to take remote of end users' systems. so in that once remotely work is done and then after disconnect remote session background which we have configured through Policy is getting removed and then we need to do either logoff /login or need to crash exeplorer.exe and then reload explorer.exe then only background comes.

[VishalSelva]

hi can you explain on how to deploy the same desktop background from Azure environment ?

[afolabiwasiu]

Hi can i just delete the WSUS content file without moving it to free up space because my C drive were the WSUS cotent file is store is full and and my D drive is also full, what will be de effect on the server, if i delete it, hope my server wount crash. thank you pls am waiting for ur reply

[Rkvishwakarma]

The wallpaper is successfully enrolled on my network host machine but if I am not available in the local network, my desktop wallpaper is not displayed and my screen turns black. is any solution ?

[dogankara]

Hello.

A training video on how to install the operating system (Microsoft) through the active directory would be great.
It is useful for laboratory setup.

[abbasabdulwahabsulaiman]

It's quite interesting and helpful

[washeemahamad]

Hi thanks for ur video. I am applying wallpaper to an OU, which contains some users and a user group. This policy is applying to all users in that OU but not to the members of the user group. Plz help

[ianapuan]

There is no 'Desktop' under the 'Administrative Templates'. Do you have a tutorial to fix this?

[gfuxxfe]

Hi,

When a user is connected to domain network and log's in to his/she laptop, he/she receives wallpaper from the server and everything is fine but if the same user is disconnected from the domain network after logging into the laptop he/she gets black wallpaper screen,

AD Server - Windows 2019 Standard

Affected Users - Windows 10 Pro(latest build) and Windows 11.

Observations :

1) Cached wallpaper file is still available in below location of user appdata in windows 10 and 11 system even if the user is not connected to domain network(verified after logging in),



2) But windows 7 users gets wallpaper in their laptop even if they are disconnected from the domain network (Tested)

My Questions :

1) Why windows 10 or 11 doesn't use the same wallpaper which was previous received from Domain Controller which is still available in users appdata if the laptop is disconnected from domain network.

[muneerqureshi]

After applying the GPO, should we GPUPDATE on all users system or only at main server....?

[solarisdreamz]

should i be applying this to the computer OU or user OU? I didn't apply it domain-wide....

[jigneshkhambhati]

Hi, i am facing one issue that after configured Desktop wallpaper policy its taking time to deploy. Even once its applied on some of the clients after 4-5 days wallpaper automatically getting removed and showing black color wallpaper on many machines. Any solution for that ?

[sriram]

Hi,

I unable to set common lockscreen image for windows 10 pro os machines...

Can you please help to fix...

[kazimoz]

hey i'm getting a blackscreen(wallpaper) on my windows 7 client computer. how can i solve this to show the actuel wallpaper?

[itmall]

Is this possible to do for all user profile that logs into windows server 2016? Thank you.

[yaserarafath]

Hi, I;ts not working in My Clients, works only on Server

[sreejithes]

It worked for me. But the users are unable to change the desktop screen. And the prevent changing option is not configured. I am using windows 10 Pro 21H1