There are non-Microsoft solutions that solve these types of issues. All the major print vendors have them.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gavin Wilby Sent: Friday, 29 August 2014 7:45 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Printers and Active Directory Its this sort of thing that appears to be more of a pain that it really should be. Printing isn’t going to go away, yet we don’t seem to have moved forward in management for over a decade. Gavin Wilby IT Support Engineer From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hank Arnold Sent: 29 August 2014 10:38 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Printers and Active Directory I used to have3 a batch file that worked great under XP that could add and remove printers. However, it stopped working under W7. Have you tried using an alias in DNS? Regards, Hank Arnold Consumer Security “There are 10 kinds of people in the world... Those who understand binary and those who don't.” My Blog: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/personal-pc-assistant/ Twitter: @Hank_PCDoc Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hank.arnold.96 From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gavin Wilby Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 9:28 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Printers and Active Directory I use a GPP/ GPO to remove them. It is a pain – I'm in the middle of moving users over to a new print server without leaving “ghost” printers. Not easy.
