davyboi Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 Morning! I am just wondering what method people use for deploying printers? do you do it through Deployed Printers under Policies\windows settings? or printers in preferences\control panel settings? or are there still some out there using old school scripts? Personally I use preferences so I can use item level targeting to set particular users/groups to default to colour etc and never used the Deployed Printers. But a school I support for have them set-up through deployed. Are there any Pros & cons to each method people have come across? Is the deployed printers just the pre GPP way of doing it? Dave
witch Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 Yes, we still use scripts as doing it via GPO was a bit flakey for us
Iain.Faulkner Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 We use a mix, shared printers (in a departmental office for example) we do by script. Porper networked printers in IT suites (for example) are done through group policy.
localzuk Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 We're half way through migration to pure GPP. Staff all have their printers deployed via GPP. Pupils still have it via script.
stitch Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 I am in the middle of moving to GPP printers for the students in which I have one policy with all the printers in and use the target filtering to assign each printer to their specific room. The staff still use a script to map drives and printers connections.
win Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 Mostly group policy except for a couple of classrooms where i have a script install.
3s-gtech Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 We have a mix depending on domain - deployed printers on one print server, and GPP on the other. Both seem to be working okay, but GPP is massively more flexible and easy to manage. Editing the printer GPOs on the print server for deployed printers is a right faff.
Sagima Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 Moved from scripts to GPP but it doubled the user login time so we're moving back
synaesthesia Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 GPP entirely here, works reasonably quickly (it is the slowest part) but it saves the hassle of unreliable scripts for us.
localzuk Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 (edited) Moved from scripts to GPP but it doubled the user login time so we're moving back It shouldn't be doing that. The only time you'll see a real slow down is the first time a user logs in with a printer set for them, as GPP installs the driver then. Once the driver is installed, GPP will just use that same driver if that printer reappears in the future. Plus, you can cut down on that initial install time anyway by pre-installing printer drivers as part of your imaging process. On testing, pre-installing the drivers can save 80% of the login time on first launch, and if the driver is already there for a second login, GPP will only add a couple of seconds to the login time. (I've tested it). Edited October 23, 2014 by localzuk
Davit2005 Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 (edited) Moved from scripts to GPP but it doubled the user login time so we're moving back GPP for everyone here, I find it works extremely well and logons are not terribly long. We only have a mix 5 different printers out of a total of about 100 printers. Logon speed can be effected if you have set the policy to 'Replace' . The replace function removes all current printer mappings and re-adds, you can see this live if you do a GPUPDATE while monitoring the Device and Printer folder. Edited October 23, 2014 by Davit2005
simpsonj Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 Am I the only one that's found that adding a printer via GPP has meant it's bypassed Papercut? I've had to go back to GPO because of it unless I'm missing something obvious! As I understand it, GPP adds the printer as a device to the computer itself, whereas GPO adds the server share of the printer (and thusly can be monitored by Papercut). Would be gladly proven wrong!
synaesthesia Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 No, no such issues with our papercut at all, we've been using GPP for ages. Papercut can monitor any printer regardless of what it is; it's always installed to the computer whether it's local by USB, shared from a server or connected directly to the printer.
jamesreedersmith Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 Am I the only one that's found that adding a printer via GPP has meant it's bypassed Papercut? I've had to go back to GPO because of it unless I'm missing something obvious! As I understand it, GPP adds the printer as a device to the computer itself, whereas GPO adds the server share of the printer (and thusly can be monitored by Papercut). Would be gladly proven wrong! are you setting as a shared printer or an ip printer?
3s-gtech Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 GPP can add shared printers, you just have to add them as such! Right-click->New->Shared printer.
simpsonj Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 Hmm, time to look at this again then. After Half Term.
Davit2005 Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 (edited) Am I the only one that's found that adding a printer via GPP has meant it's bypassed Papercut? I've had to go back to GPO because of it unless I'm missing something obvious! As I understand it, GPP adds the printer as a device to the computer itself, whereas GPO adds the server share of the printer (and thusly can be monitored by Papercut). Would be gladly proven wrong! We use pCounter here, with pCounter we were told it needs a Shared Printer added so we needed to add the printer on the User Preferences side of Group Policy Preferences where you have the option to add a shared printer. Edited October 23, 2014 by Davit2005
SteveM555 Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 We use a mixture of GPO deployment and Print Scripts. For some reason the GPO Printer install has been on and off the past couple of years, it would stop installing printers to random users with no event log messages and they were definitely getting the GPO, for some reason using VBS Print Scripts has solved it. Still looking for an all-in-one print deployment solution as ours it's cobbled together or some way of fixing the GPO deployment!.
Davit2005 Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 (edited) are you setting as a shared printer or an ip printer? GPP can add shared printers, you just have to add them as such! Right-click->New->Shared printer. As both pointed out, but you need to do this in the user side of GPP otherwise you don't get the option of adding a Shared Printer. I also found I had to do some work with the Point and Print settings in a policy because printers were not deploying. Edited October 23, 2014 by Davit2005 1
machin05 Posted October 24, 2014 Posted October 24, 2014 With GPP it has to be a user policy if you want to add a shared printer. If you are installing printers per computer then it can only be IP or local. 1
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