Have you enabled GPP logging? There is a GPO to enable it for printing. Might be a good place to start.
From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, 29 January 2011 1:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Group Policy Preferences installing a local printer I'm having some trouble with this. After some fits and starts it appears that all of my Windows 7 clients are receiving the local printer I want them to have, however, when they physically attach the printer, it installs itself with a new name. It's not a huge deal, but something I was hoping to avoid. I also had turned on the preference setting allowing users to install devices of the printer class, so I think that's what's actually happening when a user plugs in the printer for the first time, and it appears that this policy is only for Windows 7 (maybe Vista, but that's moot since we don't have Vista). My real issue is with Windows XP. No printers are installed. And yes, i do have the Group Policy extenstions for XP installed on these workstations. I have been successfully managing the local administrators group and user, and even went so far as to verify that the settings were intact on the XP machines. Is installing local printers only applicable to Vista and Windows 7? Any ideas, hints, guides? GoogleFu got me this far, but I haven't been able to find definitive answers to my XP question. Thanks, Jonathan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
