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Windows 10 Printer Deployment & Default Printer

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Hi all, we are halfway through upgrading our school systems to windows 10. Apart from a few ICT classrooms most of the student computers are now on the latest OS. However, we are having a problem setting the default printers via policy which is causing a hell of a mess since Adobe PDF is the first on the list and they don't think before pressing print.

 

We used to deploy via pushprinterconnections.exe and set the default printer on startup using the vbscript below:

Set WshNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")WshNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter "\\server\printername"

 

This seems to work except on those we have upgraded to Windows 10. I've been advised to try using a .bat, which threw up a few errors and didn't look optimistic. Google hasn't been much help in finding anything different to how we used to do it. Has anyone else come across problems of this nature?

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I've given the printer deployment a go and it looked great... but the set default printer option was grayed out. :(

Do you have it at user level by any chance?

 

iirc yes you can only set default printer on a user policy. If you need to set it on a per pc basis then use group policy loopback and add the printers to the user section of a pc policy then you can set the default

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