Petrucci914

How does everyone handle this?

As you all know, when you Sysprep a machine it sets the de facto resolution you set in the Sysprep.inf.

I work in an educational environment and we want our desktops set at 1024x768, and then laptops set at native resolution.

This works great:
12noon :: Display Changer

The problem with it is that it only works when someone is logged in (doesn't matter who).

Know of a way I can run it without someone being logged in? Or is there a way for the job to stay pending and only run once a user logs in?

Here is an example of one of the scripts:
\\deploy\express\scripts\Resolution\dccmd.exe -width=1024 -height=768 -depth=32 -refresh=max -apply -quiet

almanza

This should work for you

1) setup your script in a batch file - like "resolution.bat" - in the file you will place your script you have listed and save the file on a share somewhere.

2) setup a job with the following - this will add "resolution.bat" to the runonce in the registry

REG ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Once /v RES /d \\servername\scripts\resolution.bat /f

RES can be whatevever you want (this is the name that will show up in the registry

Hope this helps.

Petrucci914

Hey, that works! Sweet!

Now I just need to put it in an area where domain users/authenticated users have right to. Maybe the DC SysVol folder? Is there a token/wildcard for the DC they have authenticated to?

Thanks!

almanza

I am not sure about a wildcard that can be used (maybe someone else might know of one) -

to get around that issue you could setup the job to copy your batch file locally and then have the job run from c:\folder\filename.bat instead of running it from the server so this way you don't worry about what DC the users hit