{"id":105,"date":"2008-03-19T13:29:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T13:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrius.kozeniauskas.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/19\/how-to-deploy-screensaver-with-sms2003sccm\/"},"modified":"2008-03-19T13:29:23","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T13:29:23","slug":"how-to-deploy-screensaver-with-sms2003sccm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/2008\/03\/19\/how-to-deploy-screensaver-with-sms2003sccm\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Deploy ScreenSaver with SMS2003\/SCCM"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are times when you need to deploy new company screensaver to all PCs. You can use Group Policy for that, but the problem is that it will disable\u00a0screensaver settings for users and they will not be able to change them. If you have SMS or SCCM you can use it to deploy screensaver. The whole\u00a0process is very simple.<\/p>\n

You will need\u00a03 files:
\n\u00a0\u00a0 screensaver file (screensaver.scr)
\n\u00a0\u00a0 registry file which will configure\u00a0screensaver settings (screenscr.reg)
\n\u00a0\u00a0 batch file which will copy the screensaver and apply the settings (screenscr.bat)<\/p>\n

The basic settings for screenscr.reg should look like this:<\/p>\n

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00<\/em><\/p>\n

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Desktop]
\n“ScreenSaverIsSecure”=”1”
\n“ScreenSaveTimeOut”=”900”
\n“ScreenSaveActive”=”1”
\n“SCRNSAVE.EXE”=”C:\\\\WINDOWS\\\\screensaver.scr”<\/em><\/p>\n

Create a batch(screenscr.bat) file and\u00a0put the following lines:<\/p>\n

@echo off
\nregedit \/s screenscr.reg
\ncopy screensaver.scr %windir%\\<\/em><\/p>\n

It might look strange that it applies the settings before copying the file but this is the only way it worked for me.<\/p>\n

Put all three file in one folder and\u00a0create a package pointing to it. Create a program and select screenscr.bat\u00a0as your program. Also I’ve ticked Suppress program notifications<\/strong> because I don’t want them to be notified.
\nWhen creating advertising it is important in Advanced client<\/strong> tab select to Download program<\/strong> as shown below. If you don’t do that it will fail.
\n\"sccm<\/a><\/p>\n

When the program runs on Client PC the user might see a command prompt popping up and disappearing. It does that very quickly so they might not even notice that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are times when you need to deploy new company screensaver to all PCs. You can use Group Policy for that, but the problem is that it will disable\u00a0screensaver settings for users and they will not be able to change them. If you have SMS or SCCM you can use it to deploy screensaver. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6],"tags":[72,74,83,219,222,238],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kozeniauskas.com\/itblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}