[1703, cu] GPP Printers - Processing Order

[CHiLL]

So I have a Printer GPO that contains 32 printers, configured in the 'User Configuration > Control Panel Settings > Printers' section. Ordering the printers by 'Order', the first is 'Delete All'. Then the printers are listed in the order they were added (there are item-level targeting rules that also apply to target certain users, groups, computers, OUs, etc).

 

However, I've found that when students log into the library, they are not receiving a printer. Upon checking the GPResult, I can see that the policy first added the printer (item 18 in the list) and then ran the 'Delete All', (first item in the list).

 

The reason we have the 'Delete All' option is to remove ghost printers, such as when a member of staff logs onto a student computer and gets the Photocopier added, the next student to log on would also get Photocopier, which we don't want.

 

Is there any reason why it's not processing it in the correct order? How can I prevent this from happening?

 

Here's a look at our list:

[ATTACH=CONFIG]50133[/ATTACH]

[CHiLL]

Anyone got any ideas?

[Duke5A]

No ideas as to the order, but network printers have always been a per-user thing - the only printers I see be available for different profiles are local ones. Are you sure the deletion is necessary?

[CHiLL]

No ideas as to the order, but network printers have always been a per-user thing - the only printers I see be available for different profiles are local ones. Are you sure the deletion is necessary?

Thanks for the reply. We use follow-me-printing for staff and direct printing for students and found that without the deletion, it would leave 'ghost' printers in the list for the next user. So if a member of staff logs onto a computer, they get the Photocopier virtual queue. When a student logs on, they get the direct queue added specifically for the room they are in (item-level targeting based on machine OU). However without the delete item, students were also seeing the Photocopier queue when they shouldn't.

[Steady]

Ok

I have had a lot of pain with printers lets see if any of my tips help you.

I assign printers and then allocate them - that's a two step process.

 

step 1

GPolicy - User - Policies - Windows settings - Printer Connections

Set your printer connections as per your needs.

 

step2

GPolicy - User -Preferences - control panel settings - printers

Set your printers as per you needs < set one of them a default in here >

 

 

Then on the LOG OFF SCRIPTS i set a VB script to delete network printers :-

 

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On Error Resume Next

Const NETWORK = 22

Set objNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")

strComputer = "."

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set colPrinters = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * From Win32_Printer")

 

For Each objPrinter in colPrinters

If objPrinter.Attributes And NETWORK Then

strPrinter = objPrinter.Name

objNetwork.RemovePrinterConnection strPrinter

End If

Next

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Does this help you in any way ?

Steady