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Unable to change wallpaper in Linked Clone Desktops

Hi,

I have a weird problem with a customer running Horizon View 6.0.1:

In Linked Clone Desktops we are unable to change the desktop background. We already created a new master image without the optimizations as I thought one of them could be the problem (we removed the design etc optimizations but just to get sure).

I can change the wallpaper in the master image without problems, but not in deployed desktops. If I click other designs, I see Aero design becoming active, the window colors change etc, but the background remains the blue windows standard picture ("Harmony"). Even if I select images from explorer, right click, set as wallpaper - no change.

Anybody experiencing the same problem and can come up with a solution?

P.S.: We are using Persona Management. But I already created a pool in an OU without Persona Management and still have the same problem.

Best regards,

Thomas

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I seen something similar awhile back after running the desktop optimization commands.   I ended up opening a ticket with Microsoft and the following changes are what fixed our issues.  

reg load "hku\temp"
"%USERPROFILE%\..\Default User\NTUSER.DAT"

reg delete "hku\temp\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System"
/v Wallpaper

reg unload "hku\temp"

Powershell Set-Service 'Themes'
-startuptype "automatic"

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Update: The problem seems to be Persona Management related. If I deploy images using the same master in an OU without Persona Management, it works.

Persona Management is working fine. We have activated "Roam local settings" - may that be a problem?

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I seen something similar awhile back after running the desktop optimization commands.   I ended up opening a ticket with Microsoft and the following changes are what fixed our issues.  

reg load "hku\temp"
"%USERPROFILE%\..\Default User\NTUSER.DAT"

reg delete "hku\temp\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System"
/v Wallpaper

reg unload "hku\temp"

Powershell Set-Service 'Themes'
-startuptype "automatic"

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Thank you for your answer. But I was using a desktop without optimizations in my last tests so this couldn't be the problem.

However I figured it out now: I had to enable the folder redirection for "Application Data (Roaming)" in the Persona GPOs and now it is working. Can anybody tell me if this is normal behavior?

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Update:

Today we tested again with a completely new image and it is working without redirection appdata\roaming. So maybe it was really some optimization. Don't know why my tests yesterday yielded different results. Maybe it was to late Smiley Wink

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