Printer Deployment

[garethEds]

Morning All,

 

I'm having a little issue with printer deployment and wondered if anyone could help. At the moment, printers are deployed via the user side GPO with different ones for staff and pupils. Yet the GPO is applied at machine level - so we have to use loopback processing.

 

Now then - the LEA are re-designing their network and hoping to get rid of loopback processing.

 

So I'm left with looking how to deploy my printers. I know how to do it at machine level and can deploy the pupil printer to a machine. I can also deploy the staff printer to a machine, but they do not appear and dissapear depending on user. When the machine turns on - the printer is deployed. Pupils can print direct - brilliant it worked. However when the staff logon they can also see the pupil printer which means they can print direct without accounting. Ideally they would have a different printer queue (they get a secure queue).

 

So maybe I am thinking of deploying both printers to the machine but only showing one depending on who is logged in. Can printers be hidden from view depending on who is logged in?

 

If so - how?

 

Cheers

 

Gareth

[DGardiner]

change permissions on the shared printers so only pupils can print on the pupils and staff on the staff?

[garethEds]

Yes - but I don't really want the staff seeing the pupil printer or the pupils knowing the staff printer is there.

 

Gareth

[TechMonkey]

So we deploy by user and used to have a rule that deleted all printers first in the list. I've since seen that it is better to create all your printer GPOs and then duplicate them, change the GPO to a delete and move to the top. That way any item-level targeting is replicated.

[jtotheb]

Group Policy Preference applied to the user with some item level targeting?

[techy32]

So we deploy by user and used to have a rule that deleted all printers first in the list. I've since seen that it is better to create all your printer GPOs and then duplicate them, change the GPO to a delete and move to the top. That way any item-level targeting is replicated.

Our printers are same for staff and students and we use the similar method to delete the printers and deploy them.