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Re: Setting display resolution with group policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph Edward Farrell)
Thu May 24 11:32:12 2012
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Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 15:07:35 +0000
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From: Joseph Edward Farrell <farrellj@MIT.EDU>
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Hi Shawn,
We had a similar situation. I forget if we ultimately used a hardware
component to solve our issue. I'll ask around. However, here is something
I was using in the short term. It is a utility called dccmd.exe..
http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/display-changer-auto-restore-scre
en-resolution/
It is pretty simple and I think all the options are described on the page.
I called dccmd.exe using a little vb script which you could run any way
you pleaseŠ
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' No Confirmation by user...
' Reference:
http://www.devguru.com/technologies/wsh/quickref/wshshell_popup.html
set wshshl = wscript.createobject ("wscript.shell")
Set Command = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
cmd = "c:\windows\system32\dccmd.exe -width=1280 -height=720"
Command.Run (cmd)
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OR
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' Confirmation required by user
' Reference:
http://www.devguru.com/technologies/wsh/quickref/wshshell_popup.html
set wshshl = wscript.createobject ("wscript.shell")
intButton = Wshshl.popup ("Would you prefer to set the resolution to
widescreen (1280x720) format?",0,,1)
select case intButton
case 1
Set Command = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
cmd = "c:\windows\system32\dccmd.exe -width=1280 -height=720"
Command.Run (cmd)
case 2
Wscript.Quit
end select
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Joseph Farrell
Client Systems Administrator
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan
Office: E52-015 617-452-3740
On 5/24/12 10:51 AM, "Umansky, Shawn" <SUmansky@smcvt.edu> wrote:
>Has anyone on this listserv attempted to use group policy to control
>display resolution for all users of a group of computers? If so, I'd
>love to know what you discovered (i.e., did it work and was it difficult).
>
>I'll try to give you a snapshot of our situation. We are currently using
>Symantec Ghost for image capture and deployment, and have a single
>Windows 7, 64-bit image for all of our classroom computers. I should
>also mention that the computer hardware for all classroom computers is
>identical (including the video card). The default resolution of that
>image is currently 1280x1024.
>
>Historically, we have had to customize our classroom computer image with
>a lower resolution (1024x768) to ensure all of our various models of
>digital projector can display properly. However, as many of the
>projectors in those classrooms have been replaced over time, we now have
>a mix of projectors that can handle a resolution higher than 1024x768 and
>those that cannot.
>
>Ideally, instead of having to modify the image to set the resolution, we
>would be able to put the computers that connect to the older projectors
>into their own OU and leverage group policy to downgrade the resolution
>for just those classroom computers. This would also give us the
>flexibility to set the resolution at a more granular level (i.e., if 85%
>of the classroom projectors can handle 1280x1024, we only downgrade the
>other 15%). This is something we do not currently have the capacity to
>control to that degree of granularity. Pushing out a group policy to
>control this would give us that.
>
>My preference would be to push out a registry setting to HKCU for the
>classroom OUs. Server 2008 R2 makes this really easy to do. From what
>I've read, it does not appear to be quite that straight forward. I'm
>hoping that the collective intelligence of the group can tell me whether
>or not I'm barking up the wrong tree.
>
>Has anyone else out there dealt with this? If so, what did you choose to
>do?
>
>Thanks,
>Shawn
>
>
>
>Shawn L. Umansky
>Network Engineer
>Saint Michael's College
>Phone: (802) 654-2763
>SUmansky@smcvt.edu
>
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