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One GPO will add printers upon login, the other will remove upon logoff. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 [email protected] From: Ehren Benson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 2:22 PM To: Active Directory Admin Issues Subject: RE: removing printers / setting default with 2003 R2 Print Management Group policy I would think it would have to be related to or a part of the original GPO so that the printer in the GPO is not connected and then something else removes it as the order of operations is not always easy to control if everything is not GPO oriented. Ehren J. Benson, MCSE Windows Systems Administrator [email protected] 517-884-5469 From: Don Guyer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 1:54 PM To: Active Directory Admin Issues Subject: RE: removing printers / setting default with 2003 R2 Print Management Group policy Removing printers: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/scripts/968-script-delete-all-network-prin ters-logoff.html And, I would appreciate a copy of the whitepaper, as I am going to automate printer setups as much as possible here in the future. Although, I may wait until we go Server 2k8 with its additional print related functionality. Thx! Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 [email protected] From: Ehren Benson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 1:43 PM To: Active Directory Admin Issues Subject: removing printers / setting default with 2003 R2 Print Management Group policy Hi, I am going to be implementing printer deployment via group policy using the 2003 R2 addition of Printer Management which allows deployment via a GPO. I have set it up and tested it and it works fabulous but after googling around I have a couple of questions that I am unsure about. 1) Is there a way that you can make it set the deployed printer as the default printer on the system? I have not seen anything that obviously pertains to that. 2) Is there a way that prior to deploying the printers in the GPO it can remove any pre-existing mapped network printers (so that the only printers that end up on the system when the user logs in are the ones specifically defined in the GPO)? If anyone has experience with this I'd love to hear. Also if anyone is unfamiliar with this and would like to know how to do it I have written up a detailed white paper on it I can send you if it would be of use to you. Thanks in advance! Ehren J. Benson, MCSE Windows Systems Administrator Department of Physics and Astronomy Michigan State University 1209 A Biomed Phys Sci [email protected] 517-884-5469 ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ ~ ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ ~ ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ ~ ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/product.cfm?id=400> ~
