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Topic: Wallpaper & Screensaver distribution to XP clients?
We just went through a corporate "rebranding" that resulted in our logo
being redone. As such, we now have new wallpapers and screensavers to deploy
to all our internal XP client PC's. Both the wallpapers and screensavers
have been created in 3 resolutions (1024x768, 1280x800, 1280x1024).
Can anyone recommend the best way to distribute these to all existing
clients (we will create a new image with this branding already included for
new PC's) with the below points in mind:
Both:
1 - how to get the wallpaper and screensaver files to the client PC's
C:\WINDOWS dir (SMS 2003, Group policy, logon script, etc?).
2 - how to ensure that the clients are set to use the best suited resolution
of the 3 wallpapers/screensavers to match their desktop settings (SMS 2003
can detect what the desktop resolution settings are for each system).
Wallpapers:
1 - how to set the wallpaper position to be "center" (not stretch or tile
and the background color).
Screensavers
1 - how to set the screensaver settings to wait 15 minutes and require
password authentication on resume (Group Policy?).
Appreciate any advice or feedback on this. Thank you.
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RE: Wallpaper & Screensaver distribution to XP clients?
Here is half your answer
http://sms-hints-tricks.blogspot.com/2007/03/logged-out-background-and-screen-saver.html
Basically you can do it all through registry changes. You could create
everything on a test machine and then export the desktop / Screen saver
settings and then deploy through SMS.
Here you will find the screen saver setting and how we modifed the opening
windows splash screen.
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http://sms-hints-tricks.blogspot.com/
"Barkley Bees" wrote:
> We just went through a corporate "rebranding" that resulted in our logo
> being redone. As such, we now have new wallpapers and screensavers to deploy
> to all our internal XP client PC's. Both the wallpapers and screensavers
> have been created in 3 resolutions (1024x768, 1280x800, 1280x1024).
>
> Can anyone recommend the best way to distribute these to all existing
> clients (we will create a new image with this branding already included for
> new PC's) with the below points in mind:
>
> Both:
> 1 - how to get the wallpaper and screensaver files to the client PC's
> C:\WINDOWS dir (SMS 2003, Group policy, logon script, etc?).
> 2 - how to ensure that the clients are set to use the best suited resolution
> of the 3 wallpapers/screensavers to match their desktop settings (SMS 2003
> can detect what the desktop resolution settings are for each system).
>
> Wallpapers:
> 1 - how to set the wallpaper position to be "center" (not stretch or tile
> and the background color).
>
> Screensavers
> 1 - how to set the screensaver settings to wait 15 minutes and require
> password authentication on resume (Group Policy?).
>
> Appreciate any advice or feedback on this. Thank you.
>
>
>
Re: Wallpaper & Screensaver distribution to XP clients?
I have opted to skip trying to get the resolutions to match the client
settings as I think this will not be possible. I have instead opted to set
all clients to 1024x768 for their default wallpaper and screensaver. They
can change it accordingly on their own afterward.
That said, I'm still stuck on how to get the files *.bmp and *.scr to all
clients and how to make the necessary registry changes. I obviously want to
ensure that all clients have the necessary files before the registry changes
take effect so I am wondering if "SMS Installer" may be the best route for
this? I have yet to use this tool but I understand it can create installer
packages to install files and make registry changes. Can anyone recommend
one way or the other? Thanks.
"Barkley Bees" <barkbees@nomail.com> wrote in message
news:%23wljCmXtIHA.672@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> We just went through a corporate "rebranding" that resulted in our logo
> being redone. As such, we now have new wallpapers and screensavers to
> deploy to all our internal XP client PC's. Both the wallpapers and
> screensavers have been created in 3 resolutions (1024x768, 1280x800,
> 1280x1024).
>
> Can anyone recommend the best way to distribute these to all existing
> clients (we will create a new image with this branding already included
> for new PC's) with the below points in mind:
>
> Both:
> 1 - how to get the wallpaper and screensaver files to the client PC's
> C:\WINDOWS dir (SMS 2003, Group policy, logon script, etc?).
> 2 - how to ensure that the clients are set to use the best suited
> resolution of the 3 wallpapers/screensavers to match their desktop
> settings (SMS 2003 can detect what the desktop resolution settings are for
> each system).
>
> Wallpapers:
> 1 - how to set the wallpaper position to be "center" (not stretch or tile
> and the background color).
>
> Screensavers
> 1 - how to set the screensaver settings to wait 15 minutes and require
> password authentication on resume (Group Policy?).
>
> Appreciate any advice or feedback on this. Thank you.
>
>
Re: Wallpaper & Screensaver distribution to XP clients?
We have a package that has a cmd file. It runs the "regedit /s xxx.reg"
files and "copy xxx.bmp" to the locations then on their next restart all
these settings will be invoked.
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http://sms-hints-tricks.blogspot.com/
"Barkley Bees" wrote:
> I have opted to skip trying to get the resolutions to match the client
> settings as I think this will not be possible. I have instead opted to set
> all clients to 1024x768 for their default wallpaper and screensaver. They
> can change it accordingly on their own afterward.
>
> That said, I'm still stuck on how to get the files *.bmp and *.scr to all
> clients and how to make the necessary registry changes. I obviously want to
> ensure that all clients have the necessary files before the registry changes
> take effect so I am wondering if "SMS Installer" may be the best route for
> this? I have yet to use this tool but I understand it can create installer
> packages to install files and make registry changes. Can anyone recommend
> one way or the other? Thanks.
>
>
>
> "Barkley Bees" <barkbees@nomail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23wljCmXtIHA.672@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> > We just went through a corporate "rebranding" that resulted in our logo
> > being redone. As such, we now have new wallpapers and screensavers to
> > deploy to all our internal XP client PC's. Both the wallpapers and
> > screensavers have been created in 3 resolutions (1024x768, 1280x800,
> > 1280x1024).
> >
> > Can anyone recommend the best way to distribute these to all existing
> > clients (we will create a new image with this branding already included
> > for new PC's) with the below points in mind:
> >
> > Both:
> > 1 - how to get the wallpaper and screensaver files to the client PC's
> > C:\WINDOWS dir (SMS 2003, Group policy, logon script, etc?).
> > 2 - how to ensure that the clients are set to use the best suited
> > resolution of the 3 wallpapers/screensavers to match their desktop
> > settings (SMS 2003 can detect what the desktop resolution settings are for
> > each system).
> >
> > Wallpapers:
> > 1 - how to set the wallpaper position to be "center" (not stretch or tile
> > and the background color).
> >
> > Screensavers
> > 1 - how to set the screensaver settings to wait 15 minutes and require
> > password authentication on resume (Group Policy?).
> >
> > Appreciate any advice or feedback on this. Thank you.
> >
> >
>
>
>
Re: Wallpaper & Screensaver distribution to XP clients?
Thanks for the info Matthew. Could you provide a little more detail on how
you did this? What would happen in the instance that the copy *.bmp portion
fails but the registry setting is successful? We have 4 separate bitmaps and
3 screensavers (different resolutions. ~15MB in total) to the client PC's.
"Matthew Hudson" <MatthewHudson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EB95D29A-2493-4C8A-BFAC-8D36A5BBE605@microsoft.com...
> We have a package that has a cmd file. It runs the "regedit /s xxx.reg"
> files and "copy xxx.bmp" to the locations then on their next restart all
> these settings will be invoked.
>
> --
> -----------------------
> http://sms-hints-tricks.blogspot.com/
>
>
> "Barkley Bees" wrote:
>
>> I have opted to skip trying to get the resolutions to match the client
>> settings as I think this will not be possible. I have instead opted to
>> set
>> all clients to 1024x768 for their default wallpaper and screensaver. They
>> can change it accordingly on their own afterward.
>>
>> That said, I'm still stuck on how to get the files *.bmp and *.scr to all
>> clients and how to make the necessary registry changes. I obviously want
>> to
>> ensure that all clients have the necessary files before the registry
>> changes
>> take effect so I am wondering if "SMS Installer" may be the best route
>> for
>> this? I have yet to use this tool but I understand it can create
>> installer
>> packages to install files and make registry changes. Can anyone recommend
>> one way or the other? Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Barkley Bees" <barkbees@nomail.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23wljCmXtIHA.672@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> > We just went through a corporate "rebranding" that resulted in our logo
>> > being redone. As such, we now have new wallpapers and screensavers to
>> > deploy to all our internal XP client PC's. Both the wallpapers and
>> > screensavers have been created in 3 resolutions (1024x768, 1280x800,
>> > 1280x1024).
>> >
>> > Can anyone recommend the best way to distribute these to all existing
>> > clients (we will create a new image with this branding already included
>> > for new PC's) with the below points in mind:
>> >
>> > Both:
>> > 1 - how to get the wallpaper and screensaver files to the client PC's
>> > C:\WINDOWS dir (SMS 2003, Group policy, logon script, etc?).
>> > 2 - how to ensure that the clients are set to use the best suited
>> > resolution of the 3 wallpapers/screensavers to match their desktop
>> > settings (SMS 2003 can detect what the desktop resolution settings are
>> > for
>> > each system).
>> >
>> > Wallpapers:
>> > 1 - how to set the wallpaper position to be "center" (not stretch or
>> > tile
>> > and the background color).
>> >
>> > Screensavers
>> > 1 - how to set the screensaver settings to wait 15 minutes and require
>> > password authentication on resume (Group Policy?).
>> >
>> > Appreciate any advice or feedback on this. Thank you.
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>