And to possibly answer my own post, I did a quick google and am mostly seeing stuff about driver compatibility being the problem. For example, adding Win7 boxen when your print server is still WS03, then it can't load drivers so the GPP appears to not work.
We just <painfully> completed our print server migration to 2008 R2 last spring, and have both XP and 7 machines loading drivers from there, both x86 and x64. I only have one application that is still having a major issue, which is Filemaker Pro combined with <latest> the HP universal drivers. -----Original Message----- From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 9:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Deploying Printers via GPO 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:swimbe...@gmail.com] 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. <mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu> 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:kz2...@googlemail.com] > 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 <kz2...@googlemail.com> 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. <mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu> > 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:kz2...@googlemail.com] > 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 <jckel...@drmc.org> 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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