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join:2005-10-27
Cheshire, OH
| Re: Force Printer Install on Domain to WorkstationsI am doing this now with Group Policy in Windows 2003 R2 now, but before that I was using a batch file, but it had a twist. Since I am in a school setting, we didn't want all of the printers installed by default. We wanted certain printers installed on certain computers. I embeded it in the login script. I did the following when I did it. (As an example)
The con2prt program I believe I got out of the Windows 2000 Resource kit. We placed a text file on the local machine in the windows directory. There was nothing in the file. We just looked for the file name. The con2prt will also disconnect printers. We have done that when we have changed printers in classrooms to get rid of old print shares.
We still use this method because I have not found a way yet to set a default printer with group policy when there is more than one printer to install. So we use this method. In some places, we just set one printer and then encode in the group policy a location so that when they browse the active directory, we have already populated a locations so that when they hit search, they only get the printers in that room. It doesn't mean they can't just erase the location and search the entire directory, but if they see the printer they are looking for. |
