[1903, au] Deploying printers per room not possible?

[nicholab]

Printer how do you do item level targeting for rooms with printer as it does not seem possible?

[Davit2005]

Printer how do you do item level targeting for rooms with printer as it does not seem possible?

 

I never done Item level targeting for deploying printers.

 

I did have a lot of success with Windows 7 using Group Policy Preferences. Created a group policy assigned to a room OU (i.e. Desktop OU), this had loopback processing mode to set merge and in the user preferences created a shared printer. This worked extremely well.

Edited August 23, 2019 by Davit2005

[bknaggs]

I use a script to install printers based on the PC group membership.

[aleach2]

Create a AD group and add all the computer objects in the room to that group. Then use item level targeting to only deploy the printer to that group.

[nicholab]

Machines cannot have printers deployed by name?

[ColonelPanic]

Yes, we do this through group policy.

 

Each room/location has its own OU, each OU has its own group policy for whichever printer is in the room.

 

Group policy is set up as User Config, but has loopback processing enabled.

We point the default printer to \\print-server.domain.local\printer-share

[3s-gtech]

We use item level targeting using the PC name.

[psumner1992]

We also use item level targeting through user config policy and group policy preferences to assign printers to machines based on group membership or OU.

[timbo343]

Printer vbs script can do it based on computer name or parts of computer name. We've been doing it for years.

[fredbayker]

We have created several security groups which contain either PCs, users or both.

We have a GPO which attaches to the root of the users OU. Within we use GPP to deploy printers using user configuration to users but setting the item level targeting to check which security groups the PCs or users are in.

No loop back involved.

[sparkeh]

No loop back involved.

If you use loopback you can set the default printer with GPPs targeted at devices, which is very useful..

[fredbayker]

If you use loopback you can set the default printer with GPPs targeted at devices, which is very useful..

 

Hmm..I’ll read into that, cheers!!