Windows 10: Change all AD users lock screen in Windows 10 1809 using Windows Server 2012 R2 STD GPO

Hai

I am unable to Change all AD users lock screen in Windows 10 1809 using Windows Server 2012 R2 STD GPO

I have enabled it using the correct GPO.

The GPO is the following:

Group Policy settingComputer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Control Panel > Personalization > Force a specific default lock screen image and gave the full UNC path of the image file

The same group policy updated the Client PC windows 10 Build 1809
Reg key also updated as per GPO

I have run the result many times and this is what is in the applied GPO, it's still showing my old lock screen image.

Pls suggest me if any other setting need to enable

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Window 10 with Server 2012 R2 Time Sync and GPO Update

Hi,

I currently have a number of Windows 10 Pro clients connected to a Server 2012 R2 Server. The clients are configured through a GPO to update from the Server and the Server gets its time from the BIOS.

After about a week the clients fail to update the GPO's and the clients time goes to a random date. This only seams to happen with Windows 10, and the Windows 7 clients are unaffected. After a client restart the system happily pulls down the GPO's and re-syncs
the time.

Can anyone help. I can provide further information to the configuration and error messages when the problem happens again.

Thank you for your help in advance.

 

Convert Windows Server 2012 R2 Evaluation to Windows Server 2012 R2

I have purchased the product key of Windows Server 2012 R2. Now the server is on Windows Server 2012 R2 Evaluation. I found a few links there they explained on how to convert from Windows Server 2012 R2 Evaluation to Windows Server 2012 R2 with valid product
key. One of the example is this link:

How to activate Windows Server 2012 R2 Evaluation - Nicolas Ignoto, CTP

Is this a correct way to do? If I follow this step, will my data be erased?

I want to avoid formatting/fresh Windows install because there are some software in the server that we do not know how to backup. We just want to get it activated now, backup will be sorted out later.

 

Questions about Windows Server 2016 and 2012 R2

As a user of 2012 R2, I recommend 2016 because 2012 R2 has the god-awful Windows 8.1 start menu. Every time I click start, I start doing this: *Bang Head :banghead:

Yes, you can add more CALs on the fly. Just buy a license for more, give it to Windows, and more users can be added.