DEFAULT WALLPAPER SETTINGS

 GPO - CONFIGURE THE WALLPAPER 

🔻Create a shared folder and place a copy of the Wallpaper.

🔻This will be the distribution point of the wallpaper file to the network.

🔻In our example, a shared folder named WALLPAPER was created.

🔻All the domain users and all the domain computers were given read permission over this folder.

🔻In our example, this is the path to access the network share.

\\tech-dc01\WALLPAPER

🌐On the domain controller, open the group policy management tool.

🪩Create a new group policy.

✳️Enter a name for the new group policy.

⚜️In our example, the new GPO was named: MY-GPO.

✳️On the Group Policy Management screen, expand the folder named Group Policy Objects.

⚜️Right-click your new Group Policy Object and select the Edit option.

🔶On the group policy editor screen, expand the
User configuration folder and locate the
following item.

User Configuration > Preferences > Windows Settings > Files

🔶Right-click on the Files option and create a new Files

  ✳️ On the source field, enter the network path of the wallpaper.

 💫 On the destination field, enter the local path to save a copy of the wallpaper.

💫 The source field, enter the network path of the wallpaper.

 💫On the destination field, enter the local path to save a copy of the wallpaper.

  ✴️In our example, the GPO will create a local copy of the wallpaper file.

✴️Next, configure the GPO to automatically enable the local copy of the image file as the wallpaper.

   ✴️On the group policy editor screen, expand the User configuration folder and locate the following item.

User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Desktop > Desktop

✨Access the folder named Desktop.

✨Enable the item named Desktop wallpaper.

✨Enter the path to the local copy of the wallpaper file.

✨To save the group policy configuration, you need to close the Group Policy editor.

✨Congratulations! You have finished the GPO creation.