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I have number of Server 2019 and Windows 10 machines that need to have a Legal Notice displayed before logon.
I have configured the relevant GPO's (Interactive logon: Message text for users attempting to log on and Interactive logon: Message title for users attempting to log on) and the text does display. I have a message that's 980-ish characters, and I have used carriage returns in the line-ends which I believe should allow a message of up to 2048 characters. However, it is still truncated, but at more than 512 characters.
Any ideas please?
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It worked for me here with a local gpo test. In the screenshot you can't make it out but there is a vertical scroll bar to get to the rest of text. The testing was on a windows 10 21H2 build
I may have found my obvious error...
In my text file I have semi-colon's withint he text. This seems to cause a break in the parsing of the text at the endpoint. When I removed all punctuation I get this
Actually I see I missed a comma. I found this article:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1f66pg/interactive_logon_group_policy_carriage_returns/
and went to look in the GPO ini file and it seems where a carriage return is entered in the text box, in fact it's stored as a single line of text, with comma's to be displayed surrounded by double quotes and commas in line that are not surrounded by double quotes indicating where the line-breaks are. When I deleted all punctuation it gave me the screen snip above, which is the full 946 character message - happy days. I'm out of time now but the next step is to tinker with adding in commas within the ini file to get more attractive paragraphing, and then maybe I'll get fully where I want to be, but for now all the words on screen is the main thing!
Sounds good, yes, the punctuations could / would cause some unexpected results.
I have now modified all GPO's for Windows Server 2019 DC's and Servers plus all Win10 Clients, and it's working.
I am not sure how to mark this resolved TBH?
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The issue is punctuation in the text structure - I had semi-colons in the line which makes the text misbehave.