Configure Branding for Windows Devices

Organizations prefer to enforce a particular branding on their managed Windows devices. By configuring custom wallpapers for both the home and lock screens, uploading brand logos, setting alert sounds, and deploying screensavers, you can create a consistent and professional brand experience across your device fleet. This article will walk you through the process of creating, configuring, and applying a custom brand to your Windows devices using the Scalefusion Dashboard.  

Before You Begin

1. Login to Scalefusion Dashboard
2. Have access to one enrolled Windows 10 Pro and above PC.
3. Have a couple of wallpaper images stored on your local computer.

Create a Branding

1. Navigate to Device Profiles & Policies > Branding. Click on CREATE NEW BRAND.
   1. Enter a name for your Branding so that you can refer to it when required.
   2. Lock Screen Message: Enter message that would be visible when the device screen is locked. This can also be taken as message displayed as a policy banner or one displayed right before the login window. Custom fields can also be entered as part of lock screen message. For example, $device.serial_no.
      
2. Click on Windows tab. Brand settings can be configured under following sections,
   1. Basic: Configure basic branding settings
   2. Alert Sounds: Configure alert sounds when devices are buzzed, the message is broadcasted, or a workflow alert is sent.
   3. Screensaver: Configure screensaver to be shown when devices are idle.
3. Once you have configured your brand settings, click on SAVE BRAND button to save the brand. On saving, it will start appearing in the list of brands.

Basic

1. Upload Brand Logo: You can replace the default Windows PC logo (that appears on the bottom left corner of screen), with your own Brand's logo by uploading it from this section. Brand Logo can be applied on devices enrolled under Multi-App kiosk - Agent mode.
2. Home screen wallpaper
   1. Click on Upload Home Screen Wallpaper and select a wallpaper from your local computer.
   2. Once the selected image is uploaded, you would see a visualization of how it may look on the device.
      
      Note that the depending upon screen resolution the image might appear differently than represented on Dashboard.

      
      
3. Lock screen wallpaper
   1. Similarly click on the Upload Lock Screen Wallpaper, you can upload a wallpaper for lock screen. Once you have uploaded a lock-screen wallpaper, you can toggle between the visual representation using the Lock button on the top right.
      
      

Alert Sounds

Under this, you can upload sound files that will be played as alerts when users send Geofence compliance workflow alerts from Scalefusion Dashboard.

Screensaver

Screensavers are essential for protecting displays in organizations and on individual devices when they are idle. This feature allows IT administrators to deploy and manage screensavers across their managed devices. 

Publishing/Applying a Branding

1. The next step is to apply the newly created brand to your devices. To do so click on Apply Brand option on the branding card,
2. From the list of Device Profiles, select the device profile(s) where you want to publish this brand. Once you have selected the profiles, click on APPLY.
3. Wallpaper changes are applied once the Windows 10 device restarts or the user Logs off and Logs In to the account.
   Windows branding can be applied to Windows Device Profiles only. It cannot be directly applied to devices.
   Once you have created a Brand, you can apply this Brand to a Device Profile by editing the profile and selecting the Brand in Settings > Device Management > Branding section.