Technically, setting the screensaver and background via GPO is trivial. The issue you'll have is with updating or changing them. We have a company background with a calendar printed on it, so it changes every month. We use a mandatory, hidden SCCM advertisement to update the background image (it copies a new BMP to a fixed filename on the PC so we don't have to update the background GPO). If you have a software delivery system, you can do that with both the background and screensaver. Updating those files via logon script or GPO won't be reliable and timely.
I wouldn't get too creative with this. After all, if the screensaver is visible (and to a lesser extent, the background), the computer isn't being used so no one is really looking at the screen. -Malcolm From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 12:04 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options? I can't say I think it's a fantastic idea, however, you go into a bank or somewhere similar and the wallpaper and screensaver is whatever the corporation sets it to be. It's their property and once you get past the "I don't like it", I'm not sure I see the problem or the comeback personally. From: Gary Slinger [mailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com] Sent: 10 November 2010 17:49 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options? My (English) company tried this years ago. I told them the moment they did it, I'd file a health & safety suit. It's one thing to say "you will /not/ display the following..." but it's absolutely ridiculous to dictate a desktop setup to folks that spend the day in front of the system (i.e. for kiosks it would be different). _____ From: "Paul Hutchings" <paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:34:35 -0000 To: NT System Admin Issues<ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> ReplyTo: "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Subject: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options? At long last we may be going to bring in company wallpaper and screensavers. I'm aware you can do this via GPO but I've not had cause to do more than the basics so far. One thing that's been mentioned is being able to display news/events info as part of either the wallpaper or screensaver. So I'd be looking for an IT solution that once set, would allow another area of the business to either dump some pictures somewhere, or put some web pages somewhere, and those become that day/week's wallpapers and screensaver. Of course there are issues such as controlling who can access the repositories, but focussing purely on "how would we do this?", does anyone do anything similar right now, and if so how please? Thanks, Paul _____ MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 114 5409 96 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
