Windows 10 Printing Issues GPO deployment

[themightymrp]

I haven’t recreated the share as of yet but I don’t have any spaces in the path as it is.

 

One thing I am going to try today is to install the printer locally and creat a local port in the form of \\servername\share and see if it then stays. I’ve done that before but it’s been at least 6 years since I last needed it. As far as I’m aware the printing will still go via the server and should still log within papercut..

 

I hope

[djm968]

I had loads of issues deploying printers via GPO to Windows 10 devices so I now inject printers directly into the registry using an "old school" simple VBS GPO logon script, it works faultlessly.

[themightymrp]

I've tried an old style VBS logon script and had the same issues. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. So far I've tried all the methods in this thread i.e. GPP, scripts, running scripts twice, deploying into the GPO using the print server etc. Nothing has been 100% effective. I'll report back on my above method later.

[mproffitt1983]

We have run into issues with this before. We ended up using WoL to power up the workstations about 5 minutes before they're used. This seems to give enough time for the printer policy to apply - it's not ideal but works for us.

[themightymrp]

Yeah all of our machines are powered up by Impero at least an hour before the first lesson. So no joys there

[kennysarmy]

Extracts from my printer script run at logon time. Just needs to have con2prt copied to each workstation.

@echo OFF

 

 

c:\windows\con2prt /f

c:\windows\con2prt /c \\chester\FindMe_Colour

c:\windows\con2prt /cd \\chester\FindMe_Mono

 

 

@set str=%computername%

@set pos123=%str:~0,3% @echo %pos123%

if %pos123%==STA goto STA

if %pos123%==SPA goto SPA

if %pos123%==ELC goto ELC

if %pos123%==8A1 goto 8A1

etc

 

:7A2 @echo Setup 7A2 printers here

c:\windows\con2prt /cd \\chester\mfl_c8030

goto END

 

:7A3 @echo Setup 7A3 printers here

c:\windows\con2prt /cd \\chester\mfl_c8030

goto END

 

:7B1 @echo Setup 7B1 printers here

c:\windows\con2prt /cd \\chester\mfl_c8030

goto END

[apprenticearb]

I had loads of issues deploying printers via GPO to Windows 10 devices so I now inject printers directly into the registry using an "old school" simple VBS GPO logon script, it works faultlessly.

We also use VBS scripts, and the same issue still occurs.

I noticed today after reducing the number computer GPOs to a test machine that the printers to add eventually in some cases 15mins until they are usable.

Anyone know of any specific Windows 10 printer GPOs that may effect this?

[mproffitt1983]

Our printers install with Group Policy if we give them enough time (about 5 minutes before login)

 

Maybe try enabling this GPO from http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-10/191185-disappearing-printers-16.html

 

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Device Installation > "Prevent device metadata retrieval from the Internet" - Enable

 

The Policy might be hanging while the metadata is collected (or not) from the web.

Edited November 13, 2019 by mproffitt1983

[themightymrp]

This might be my next port of call. I'm waiting to hear back on how things went today first

[2097]

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I have been fighting printer issues since rolling out my testing ( Tried kixtart and GPP, both with pretty random results )

 

I requested a trial of this pretty cheap software and decided to give it a go . Seems ok so far and relies on the XML of the GPP output .

 

Thanks for the link