Papercut - Deployment of the client software

[leewakelam]

Can anyone please help??

 

How to deploy the client on all PC's around the school from the print server?

 

I thought the best way would be via GPO - computer configuration, policies, software settings, software installation. Then add the MSI from the print server but nothing happens on any pc around the school

[tosh74]

Copy the MSI where the machine accounts can access it or create a new shared folder under the PaperCut folder and place the MSI in there and update your GPO to point to new location of the MSI. C$ is an admin share and can only be accessed with admin credentials

[Rob_D]

We just have a shortcut to \\Papercut_Server\pcclient\win\pc-client-local-cache.exe in the shell:startup folder of the redirected start menu.

[leewakelam]

Thanks for the response. How do you do the last part of that please as i think this might be the best option. How do i have the shortcut on all PC's shell:startup folder of the redirected start menu

[MartinT]

We do exactly this \\Papercut_Server\pcclient\win\pc-client-local-cache.exe but run it from the Group Policy login scripts for all users.

[leewakelam]

I created a folder on the printer server desktop and shared that. Unfortunately still didn't work

[Rob_D]

Thanks for the response. How do you do the last part of that please as i think this might be the best option. How do i have the shortcut on all PC's shell:startup folder of the redirected start menu

 

If you are redirecting the start menu for users (through Group Policy>User Configuration\Policies\Folder Redirection\Start Menu), then you just need to add the shortcut to the source start menu (where the start menu is being redirected to) in the Programs\Startup folder.

[leewakelam]

That does work but get the error message, do you know how to get rid of this? Also when i go to add a script it wants a file so how do you add the script? thanks again

[altecsole]

That does work but get the error message, do you know how to get rid of this? Also when i go to add a script it wants a file so how [ATTACH=CONFIG]69725[/ATTACH]do you add the script? thanks again [ATTACH=CONFIG]69724[/ATTACH]

 

For the C:\Cache folder, we have a PowerShell startup script that sets the folder permissions. It removes, and recreates, at each startup, as the Cache folder can sometime get corrupted (apparently). We log to a local file, which can be useful. Here is the bit of code we use for the Cache folder:

 

Start-Transcript -Path "C:\Windows\temp\compstartup.txt"

 

$cachePath = "C:\Cache"

if (Test-Path -Path $cachePath) {

Write-Host "Cache folder exists. Going for remove, new"

try {

Remove-Item -Path $cachePath -Force -Recurse

New-Item -Path $cachePath -Type Directory

if (Test-Path -Path $cachePath) {

write-host "Setting permission on Cache folder"

try {

$acl = Get-Acl -Path $cachePath

$rule = New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule("Users", "FullControl", "ContainerInherit,ObjectInherit", "None", "Allow")

$acl.SetAccessRule($rule)

Set-Acl -Path $cachePath $acl

}

catch {

Write-Host "Unable to set folder permission for " $cachePath

}

}

}

catch {

Write-Host "Could not remove folder"

}

}

[jezi55]

We just run the client on our login script for all students and staff:

 

start \\servername\PCClient\win\pc-client-local-cache.exe

 

The only issue you have is when the server reboots and clients are logged on, they will need to re-run their login script or log off/back on again.