I uploaded icons for each policy, so the user gets a preview of what the desktop will look like, before even setting it. Set to an ongoing policy, available in Self Service, under its own category Desktop Wallpaper. The polices are just files and processes: open '/Library/Desktop Pictures/My Images/Image1/Image1.app' under execute command. Uploaded the package to jamf, create a 'source' policy that drops the images and apps onto the users mac into that location, then made 12 separate policies for each background then assigned to a category in jamf called 'Desktop Wallpaper'. Placed the entire folder 'My Images' into composer, and gave them all 757 permissions. I repeated this process for each desktop that I wanted to have.įor instance, I have Image1-12, each with a desktop background with its own automator app. I created an automator app as well as placed my image source file into image 1. I made a folder here /Library/Desktop Pictures/My Images, then created sub folders, /Library/Desktop Pictures/My Images/Image1, etc. Wanted to make a quick edit to describe my final results. This is great! Instead of doing 1 image, I did an entire folder, full of images I wanted to cycle through.

Add from Users/Shared folder in Composer your_image.png.

Drag and Drop your Automator.app in it (from /Users/Shared).

Export your Automator project > Save (ideally sign it) into /Users/Shared.Add 'Set Desktop Picture' in Automator library.Choose in Library 'Get Specified Finder Items' and select your_image.png (located in /Users/Shared).

Place your_image.png into /Users/Shared.

This workflow is compatible from Catalina to Monterey Beta.

I am just sharing here another way of deploying silently a new Desktop Background to Mac computers without using Script install, Desktoppr or a Configuration Profile.

Changing desktops using automator mac