Madatory profile

Hi experts,

I have just set up a mandatory profile for a user in a Windows 2003 server
box. Everthing works fine except the wallpaper is not showing up when the
user logs on. I have try jpg and bmp files. I trying to move the wallpaper
location around from a local file to a network file on a shared folder -
still no luck.

Any idea?

Thanks in advance
Jason.

Maybe Active Desktop is disabled?

Group Policy: User Configuration/Administrative Templates/Desktop

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

"Jason" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi experts,
>
> I have just set up a mandatory profile for a user in a Windows 2003 server
> box. Everthing works fine except the wallpaper is not showing up when the
> user logs on. I have try jpg and bmp files. I trying to move the
wallpaper
> location around from a local file to a network file on a shared folder -
> still no luck.
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Jason.
>
>

You need to use BMP as the wallpaper instead of jpg.


In addition, try to enable the Active Desktop as Doug has suggested.


Best regards,

Rebecca Chen

MCSE2000 MCDBA CCNA


Microsoft Online Partner Support
Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security

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>Hi experts,
>
>I have just set up a mandatory profile for a user in a Windows 2003 server
>box. Everthing works fine except the wallpaper is not showing up when the
>user logs on. I have try jpg and bmp files. I trying to move the
wallpaper
>location around from a local file to a network file on a shared folder -
>still no luck.
>
>Any idea?
>
>Thanks in advance
>Jason.
>
>
>

Thanks rebecca and doug.

Just out of coriousty, why do we need to enable active desktop? Isn't
active desktop for HTTP contents only?

Jason


""Rebecca Chen [MSFT]"" <v-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> You need to use BMP as the wallpaper instead of jpg.
>
>
> In addition, try to enable the Active Desktop as Doug has suggested.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rebecca Chen
>
> MCSE2000 MCDBA CCNA
>
>
> Microsoft Online Partner Support
> Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
>
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> >Subject: Madatory profile
> >Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:43:40 -0500
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> >
> >Hi experts,
> >
> >I have just set up a mandatory profile for a user in a Windows 2003
server
> >box. Everthing works fine except the wallpaper is not showing up when
the
> >user logs on. I have try jpg and bmp files. I trying to move the
> wallpaper
> >location around from a local file to a network file on a shared folder -
> >still no luck.
> >
> >Any idea?
> >
> >Thanks in advance
> >Jason.
> >
> >
> >
>

As far as I know things have not changed since the advent of Active
Desktop - among other things it enables you to display jpeg files as
wallpaper (ie. without running a separate application) - See:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;265877

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

"Jason" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks rebecca and doug.
>
> Just out of coriousty, why do we need to enable active desktop? Isn't
> active desktop for HTTP contents only?
>
> Jason
>
>
> ""Rebecca Chen [MSFT]"" <v-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > You need to use BMP as the wallpaper instead of jpg.
> >
> >
> > In addition, try to enable the Active Desktop as Doug has suggested.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Rebecca Chen
> >
> > MCSE2000 MCDBA CCNA
> >
> >
> > Microsoft Online Partner Support
> > Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
> >
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> >
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> > that others may learn and benefit from your issue.
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> >
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> > >Subject: Madatory profile
> > >Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:43:40 -0500
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> > >
> > >Hi experts,
> > >
> > >I have just set up a mandatory profile for a user in a Windows 2003
> server
> > >box. Everthing works fine except the wallpaper is not showing up when
> the
> > >user logs on. I have try jpg and bmp files. I trying to move the
> > wallpaper
> > >location around from a local file to a network file on a shared
folder -
> > >still no luck.
> > >
> > >Any idea?
> > >
> > >Thanks in advance
> > >Jason.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>