Loopback: http://deployhappiness.com/loopback-policy-how-a-computer-gets-a-transgender-operation

Policy or Preference: http://deployhappiness.com/policy-or-preference

You must create Active Directory Organizational Units (OUs) to apply group policies against. You can't apply policies to the built-in AD containers.

Policies apply to either users or computers. Loopback processing can make user policies apply to certain computers.

Group policies often seem not to 'take effect' when you think they should.

Time plays an underestimated role in the activation or roll-out of group policies. Test it again in the morning!

1. Make the policy change on the domain controller
2. Run gpupdate /force on domain controller
3. Run gpupdate /force on workstation computer
4. Reboot workstation computer
5. Test the policy

Use Group Policy Management to manage group policies.

• Start → Run → gpmc.msc

Use Group Policy Editor to edit a specific Group Policy Object (GPO).

• Start → Run → gpedit.msc

View resultant policies:

• Start → Run → rsop.msc

Use the CLI:

https://mashtips.com/how-to-use-the-group-policy-results-gpresult-exe-command-line-tool/

gpupdate /force

gpresult /R

gpresult -H GPResult.html

Check computer group membership:

Get-ADComputer "tucson-svr" -Properties MemberOf

gpresult /scope computer /v

net localgroup

Group Policies 'flow down', so you may need to Block Inheritance to a container using Group Policy Management.

• Right-click container → Block Inheritance

http://www.nitrobit.com/grouppolicy.html

http://www.nitrobit.com/products.html

http://www.nitrobit.com/order_ngp.html

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg563788.aspx

Edit an existing group policy, or add a new one, and add 'Administrators':

Computer Configuration → Policies → Windows Settings → Security Settings → Local Policies → User Rights Assignment → Log on as Batch Job

By default, background images are not displayed nor can users change the background unless the RDP client is set to 'Lan' or the best connection speed in the client settings.

If you set a solid color background at a fast speed, the setting will 'stick' even when going back to slower connection speeds

You have to have Desktop backgrounds enabled in the client before any of the following server-side stuff will work.

http://virot.eu/push-a-solid-colored-background-to-a-windows-server-2012-or-later/

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/9c72a524-507f-4861-a9de-0b42c711897a/how-to-change-desktop-background-color-of-windows-2008-r2-remote-desktop-server-users?forum=winserverTS

http://www.techieshelp.com/set-desktop-background-colour-with-a-gpo/