Is there a pref. for settings User Account Picture?

[icek39]

Does anyone know of a preference that would allow me to set the user.bmp located in c:\program data\microsoft\User account pictures\ using preference?

[icek39]

Bumping the thread, hopefully somone knows of something that can be done.

[kbeckman]

Sure... You can use a Group Policy Preference to do this. In the GPMC, Computer Config > Preferences > Files. Right-click and choose New > File. Set the action to Replace and set the Destination file to c:\program data\microsoft\User account pictures\user.bmp.

I don't have the ability to test all of this out at the moment, but I'm guessing that your source will have to be a UNC path. If it does, make sure that your network share (and the share's NTFS permissions) both have Domain Computers set to at least read-only. Otherwise, the replace will fail when it tries to access the network share and doesn't have permissions.