Friday, March 03, 2017

Screensaver Lockscreen using GPEdit

You will need to be an administrator on the local machine or in AD to make these changes.

Open GPEDIT.msc
Under “User Configuration” go to Administrative Templates -> Control Panel -> Personalization


Edit and enable the Following Settings
    1. Enable Screen Saver -> Enable
    2. Prevent Changing Screen Saver -> Enable
    3. Password Protect the Screen Saver -> Enable
    4. Screen Saver Timeout -> Enable and Set to 300 Seconds
    5. Force Specific Screen Saver ->  Enable and set to %Systemroot%\System32\Mystify.scr




Apply and hit ok.

Open up the cmd prompt and type in gpupdate \force and logout when asked.

Meraki AP Management Changes

I work for a smallish organization and we have a network that is locked down that we use for managing devices, however we don't run a DH...