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Change wallpaper script

  • Chad F
    October 6, 2020 02:09:06 PM

    Does anyone have a PS script to change the wallpaper for the test failover vm guests vpg’s?  I’m looking to change up the look so the admins know they are working on a different environment as to not be confused with production when working with and testing the failover site and RDP’d into it.

    Eric M
    October 6, 2020 08:44:23 PM

    If you’re failing over to a different hypervisor (ie VMWare –> Azure  etc) it’s pretty simple to detect the change.  We query (Get-WmiObject –query ‘select * from Win32_ComputerSystem’).Manufacturer on VM startup to see if the last scan matches the current value and if not we know a failover happened in one direction or another.  Once you know true/false, replacing the wallpaper image is trivial.

    Chad F
    October 6, 2020 09:26:53 PM

    Here is what someone else posted out on the internet:

     

    $setwallpapersrc = @”
    using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
    public class wallpaper
    {
    public const int SetDesktopWallpaper = 20;
    public const int UpdateIniFile = 0x01;
    public const int SendWinIniChange = 0x02;
    [DllImport(“user32.dll”, SetLastError = true, CharSet = CharSet.Auto)] private static extern int SystemParametersInfo (int uAction, int uParam, string lpvParam, int fuWinIni);
    public static void SetWallpaper ( string path )
    {
    SystemParametersInfo( SetDesktopWallpaper, 0, path, UpdateIniFile | SendWinIniChange );
    }
    }
    “@
    Add-Type -TypeDefinition $setwallpapersrc
    [wallpaper]::SetWallpaper(“C:\Windows\Web\Screen\img102.jpg”)

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