Hi Ben, Thanks for your reply.
The clients are all W7 across the domain. There is a reason that certain users get certain printers, they are linked to the department/ floor they work on. No point in issuing a printer to someone on 7th that’s 3 floors down :) Ill take a look at the vbs script a see what can be done. Thanks again. Gavin Wilby IT Support Engineer -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: 28 August 2014 17:38 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Printer managment On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Gavin Wilby <[email protected]> wrote: > We have two print servers. > One is a 2003 server, one a 2012. For this problem, the version of the print server isn't as relevant as what the print clients are running. If they're all running Vista/2008 or later, you're in better shape. XP/2003 or older printer clients complicate things. > There is also the problem that lots of users have old ghost printers, > as well as the fact that I need to get them. You're pretty much going to have to have something run for each user, then. Typically this is done at user logon (GPO and/or logon script). As noted previously, network printer connections are a property of the user, not the machine. > So if I have a user with two printers oldps\print1 and oldps\print2 I > need them to have newps\print1 and newps\print2. Is there any rhyme or reason to which printers which users need? If so, it's prolly easiest for you to create a GPO that removes *all* printer connections to the old server, and then other GPOs which add connections to the new server based on user membership in groups or whatever. If there's no rhyme or reason, is it viable to just add all printers to all users? This is brute force, but it works for some environments. If you need to be selective, your options are to script something, or buy a third-party product that will do it for you. I have no experience with the latter. For the former, I've used prnmngr.vbs to list existing printer connections, look for the old server, add the same on the new server, then remove the ones for the old server. -- Ben SMP Partners Limited, SMP Trustees Limited and SMP Fund Services Limited are licensed by the Isle of Man Financial Supervision Commission. SMP Accounting & Tax Limited is a member of the ICAEW Practice Assurance Scheme. SMP Partners Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 000908V Directors: M.W. Denton, M.J. Derbyshire, P.N. Eckersley, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, S.J. Turner SMP Trustees Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 068396C Directors: A.C. Baggesen, M.W. Denton, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, J. Watterson, J. Cubbon SMP Fund Services Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 120288C Directors: V. Campbell, M.W. Denton, P.N. Eckersley, D.A. Manser, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, R.K. Corkill SMP Accounting & Tax Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 001316V Directors: I.F. Begley, A.J. Dowling, P. Duchars, P.N. Eckersley, J.J. Scott, S.J. Turner SMP Capital Markets Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration No: 002438V Directors: M.W. Denton, M.J. Derbyshire, D.F Hudson, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott. SMP Partners Limited, SMP Trustees Limited, SMP Fund Services Limited, SMP Accounting & Tax Limited and SMP Capital Markets Limited are members of the SMP Partners Group of Companies. This email is confidential and is subject to disclaimers. Details can be found at: http://www.smppartners.com/disclaimer.asp ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________
