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I have a school with 50 Windows machines that I would like to make edits to prevent the kids from changing the wallpapers ect... when they log into a student account.

We don't have a Windows Server and we use Windows XP SP3 to Windows 7. Is there a way I can make edits to the local user then push those policy rules out to every other machine?

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According to a Microsoft Forums post (here), there isn't any provision for exporting local policy directly. However it's possible to do this using the following steps:

  1. Setup local policy as you want it on one machine. This machine is the template machine.
  2. Copy the contents of the %systemroot%\System32\grouppolicy directory from your template machine to the same location on each of the machines you wish to apply the policy to.
  3. Reboot client machine
  4. Run the command gpudate /force

It should be noted that due to time constraints and a lack of access to the versions of Windows you are using, I haven't tested the method described here myself.

One could automate the deployment steps using a PowerShell script that remotes into each client, copies the template grouppolicy directory from a central location, adds a job to run the gpupdate command upon reboot and then reboots the machine.

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