Forceactivedesktopon windows 7

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Thank you Frederik for the Clarification. This customer decided to use Desktop wallpaper as communication medium in order to distribute information, recommendations or instructions to be followed during COVID Crisis while working at company premises. The Desktop Wallpaper was centrally managed and distributed to users through group policies. The customer wanted to update on regular base the wallpaper in order to communicate critical information and guidance to their users.

This post will quickly explain how to visualize the newly deployed desktop wallpaper without the need of logging off and login on….

As mentioned earlier, our customer was basically using Group policies to centrally manage and deploy Desktop Wallpaper on corporate workstations and laptops. Updating the Desktop Wallpaper was a quick and efficient way for that customer to share important information and guidance through the organization. A user would not need to open his mailbox to know about new policies to be followed. The IT Team was using a dedicated group policy to set,manage and deploy the Desktop wallpaper.

The following screenshots shows the really basic settings that needs to be configured at GPO level in order to set desktop wallpapers.

This customer decided to deploy a new Desktop wallpaper through the GPO. The existing GPO was modified accordingly. After some time, the GPO would be automatically applied to the target users or machines.

We have run the resultant Set of Policy rsop. The new GPO was in place. We had to come up with some options or workarounds in order to meet the customer requirement i. After some research on internet, we have found that it was possible to use a command line that would theoretically refresh the desktop wallpaper. More specifically, the command was working inconsistently which make it unusable in this really specific scenario…. Again, searching through internet and gathering information about this specific topic, we discovered that it would be possible to use some specific windows dll that could be loaded into a Powershell script.

After gathering information from multiple Internet sources, we came up with the following short Powershell Script. Executing the above script was basically updating the user settings in the loaded session and the wallpaper was changed accordingly…. Now, the next challenge we have been asked to solve was to find a way to trigger the script when the GPO would be modified….

Probably multiple options would exists and we will present some of them hereafter. So, the first option would be to push a immediate schedule tasks through the network using Group Policies preferences so the new desktop wallpaper would be visible to the user quite quickly after you have modified the GPO. Obvioulsy, you will have to follow the following steps. If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again.

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