Desktop Wallpaper in RDS

[sahil]

Hello,
I have tried everything & have given up to achieve this.
I have a RDS Farm with 2 servers 2008 R2.
Roaming Profiles with Folder Redirection

I am trying to deploy Wallpaper via GPO: Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Desktop > Desktop:
1) Enable Active Desktop
2) Desktop Wallpaper: I have put the image in sysvol folder.

The Loopback policy is enabled in Replace mode.

I do see the policy getting applied in gpresult, but the wallpaper doesn't show up.
I checked the registry & it was pointing in users Desktop folders & not from the desired location. So I changed the registry manually. After this when I right click the desktop I do see the desired image listed, but this is not what I want.

My desired result would be that the user is not able to change the Wallpaper & it's deployed for all the sessions.

Please note, that I didn't create a new OU for farm as there was already one. To isolate the conflict I Enforced the GPO, but of no avail.

I saw many posts over the internet & there is a hotfix mentioned for this, but since I have SP1 I didn't apply it as I think this is included in it.

Please help, it has taken lot of my energy & has become more of a challenge than necessity...

Regards,
Sahil

[sahil]

I am replying to my own question, as I got the answer by carefully reading Jermey's book.... Page 203 this is how it goes:

The idea is simple:

Create the BMP file as explained earlier, and store it once again, locally, as c:\ windows\background.bmp.

Create a new GPO on the Domain Controllers OU or on your own OU for your servers. Call the policy “Forced Background Wallpaper—Loopback Replace.”

Modify the User node of the policy as follows:
1. Drill down through User Configuration  Policies  Administrative Templates Desktop  Active Desktop  enable Active Desktop, and set Enabled.

2. Drill down through User Configuration  Policies  Administrative Templates  Desktop  Active Desktop  Desktop Wallpaper, and set Enabled. Set the wall- paper name to c:\windows\background.bmp.

3. Drill down through User Node  Administrative Templates  Desktop  Active Desktop  Allow Only Bitmapped Wallpaper, and set Enabled.

4. To modify the Computer node of the policy, drill down through Computer Con- figuration  Policies  Administrative Templates  System  Group Policy  and enable user Group Policy Loopback Processing Mode. Set to Loopback—Merge.

Now whenever anyone logs onto that server, they will get the exact same background BMP! This is still true even if they usually get a background dictated via some other Group Policy for their own personal account.

There is one more accompanying tip to seal the deal.

If you’ve enabled Terminal Services Administration mode, by default you cannot see the wallpaper when coming in over Terminal Services. Change the default behavior of Terminal Services by using the Terminal Services Configuration application, right-clicking the RDP protocol, and select- ing the Environment tab. Choose to view the wallpaper by deselecting the “Disable the Wallpaper” check box.

As I am using Remote Desktop Services I didn't have to configure the last step or right-clicking the RDP Protocol.

Thanks Jermey once again!!!

Regards,
Sahil