If you come up with the article, please post. This could be a huge problem for us implementing W7 for student labs. Don't think we've tried it yet.
-----Original Message----- From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 8:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Deploying Printers via GPO I moved all our network printers to GPP with security groups as described above and love it! although now that we have started to deploy Windows 7 I find that it doesn't work on Windows 7. I don't have the article handy that explains why, but a word of caution to test your newly created GPP on some Windows 7 boxes before you go hog wild! On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Miller Bonnie L. <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting-I don't think I've heard of any hangs like that, but I will go > check that setting as we don't have a widespread deployment yet (but it's > coming soon!). Thanks! > > > > -B > > > > From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 5:40 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Deploying Printers via GPO > > > > it's in User Configuration | Admin Templates | Control Panel | Printers | > Point and Print Restrictions | Security Prompts > > On 17 September 2010 08:01, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's the GPO that allows Vista and above to automatically install the > drivers when they are not present. Otherwise it hangs at the GPO > application. > > I've just changed jobs so can't dig out the exact GPO setting, sorry! > > > > On 16 September 2010 16:01, Miller Bonnie L. <[email protected]> > wrote: > > +1, works well for us here too, but we target the computer ou + the user > group in combo. James-can you clarify what you mean on the Point and print > restrictions? I don't think we have that set and I'm wondering what the > issue is/was. > > > > For XP machines, make sure you have the latest GPP preferences update > applied for this all to work. > > > > From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 2:15 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: Deploying Printers via GPO > > > > Use loopback policy processing on your computers OU, deploy the Group Policy > Preferences printers list as a user config applied to the computers OU, set > the default printer through that, and target it to the required users. > > Make sure you set the GPO with the point-and-print restrictions as well, so > it doesn't hang when popping up the box to install the driver if there isn't > a suitable one installed. > > On 15 September 2010 18:02, Kelsey, John <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good afternoon all, > > Currently in a 08 domain with all XP workstations SP3 and > GPO extensions installed. I need to deploy printers based on the machine > and not the user. I see I can deploy printers to computers through a GPO, > BUT you can't set the default printer that way. It looks like I can deploy > the printers to the user, then use 'item-level targeting' so it applies only > when users logon to computers in certain OU's. Is there a better way to > skin this cat? > > > > Should I make a printer policy per OU, or make 1 global one with all the > printers and assign them with the item-level targeting? > > > > Thanks all!! > > > > ************************************* > John C. 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