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I am an experienced Consulting Architect for VMware’s Professional Services Organization, End-user Computing specializing in VMware Horizon Suite product-line and SDDC. I have over 23 years of experience in the IT industry. In addition to his past experience, I have a passion for technology and thrives on educating customers. Additionally, I have 10 years of hands-on virtualization experience deploying full-life cycle solutions using VMware, CITRIX, and Hyper-V. I also has 18 years of experience in computer programming in various languages ranging from basic scripting to C, C++, PERL, .NET, SQL, and PowerShell. I’ve received acclaim from several clients for my in-depth and varied technical experience and exceptional hands-on customer satisfaction skills. In February 2013, I received VMware’s Spotlight award for my outstanding persistence and dedication to customers and was nominated again in October of 2013. I was awarded 2015 – 2017 vEXPERT.

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VMware User Environment Manager and Sysinternals BGinfo

Jeremy Wheeler
January 17, 2019December 7, 2020 2 mins

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  3. Step 3.

If you want to use VMware User Environment Manager in combination with BGinfo, follow these three steps to allow users to choose their own wallpaper, while still allowing the BGinfo information to appear on the wallpaper.

Step 1: Capture the BGinfo wallpaper

Step 2: Start BGinfo at login to add the info to the wallpaper

Step 3: Undo the BGinfo at logoff to prevent ‘ghosting’ of old information.

These three steps are explained in detail in this article:

Step 1.

BGinfo changes the wallpaper (adds the BGinfo information/text) and stores the wallpaper in a different location: %LocalAppData%\Temp\BGInfo.bmp

Therefore the default UEM template to capture the wallpaper no longer works successfully. First, we have to fix this by adding the following two lines to the UEM Wallpaper config file:

[IncludeFiles]

<LocalAppData>\Temp\BGInfo.bmp

The UEM config file for the Wallpaper then looks like picture 1:

Picture 1. UEM Config File to capture the Wallpaper

Step 2.

Automatically start BGinfo at login to write the correct information to the wallpaper.

We want to call BGinfo with the following parameters to silently start BGinfo at login:

“C:\Program Files\BGInfo\Bginfo.exe” “%ProgramFiles%\BGInfo\bginfo.bgi” /timer:0 /silent /nolicprompt

To accomplish this, create a shortcut in the ‘Start Menu – Startup’ folder to call BGinfo. This can be accomplished very simply with UEM. See picture 2 for an example configuration of this shortcut.

Step 3.

Undo the BGinfo at logoff to remove the BGinfo information from the wallpaper. This is to prevent ‘ghosting’ of old information.

To do this, we first have to create a ‘BGundo.bgi’ file that is empty, so that BGinfo replaces the text on the wallpaper with an empty configuration, effectively removing all text from the wallpaper.

To create this file, start BGinfo, remove all information and only type a space. You must type a space otherwise you cannot save the .bgi file. Safe this empty BGinfo configuration to a file called BGundo.bgi.

We want to call BGinfo with the following parameters to silently run BGinfo at logoff:

“C:\Program Files\BGInfo\Bginfo.exe” “%ProgramFiles%\BGInfo\bgundo.bgi” /timer:0 /silent /nolicprompt

This can be accomplished very simply by creating a Logoff task with UEM. Make sure to change the logoff task to run ‘Before profile archive export’.

See picture 3 for an example configuration of this logoff task.

Picture 3. UEM Logoff task

Picture 2: UEM Startup shortcut

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