Deploying Printer Via GPO

[the_marksman08]

I am having an issue pushing a printer to clients (Win7) via GPO. I seem to have a weird setup that I cannot change at the moment. I have a print server running off a Windows Server 2008 R2 server and my DC is a Windows Server 2003 SP2 R2. I have added the printer successfully to the printer server and when I select deploy via gpo on the printer it seems to find the new GPO I created on the '03 server called Printer GPO. The printer on the printer server is shared and set to list in the directory. I would like to apply the GPO to the user instead of the computer. I already set the pushprinterconenctions.exe, did a gpupdate /force, and logged off and on with the user with no success. I don't even know if this is possible. Please, someone point me in the right direction. Thanks!

[Davit2005]

This is how I do it, this assigns the user the correct printer as default for the location they are logging in.

 

 

1) A Group Policy assigned to the Computer OU where you want the users to pick up the correct printers

2) Set the policy Loop back processing in the policy to Merge.

3) Create the Printer as a shared printer in the User Preferences rather than the Computer.

 

I additionally had to set 2 other parameters in the computer policy

Allow non-administrators to install drivers for these device setup classes (Add the device GUID for printers)

 

Point and Print Restrictions Enabled

Users can only point and print to these servers: Enabled (add the print server FQDN addresses i.e. printserver.domain.local )

Security Prompts:

When installing drivers for a new connection: Do not show warning or elevation prompt

When updating drivers for an existing connection: Do not show warning or elevation prompt

 

 

The other thing you can do is set the policy to Replace, this may increase login times marginally but it will mean what ever the user does on next logon it will be set back to default.

Edited October 2, 2014 by Davit2005