Printers via script in Windows 7 not mapping

[dombera]

Hi! I`m having a problem mapping printers via script in my network. I have three domain controllers: primary 2008, sec 2008 R2 and third 2003 R2.

We are currently mapping our printers via script as below:

 

rundll32 printui.dll PrintUIEntry /in /ga /n \\printserver\A203Pntr

 

We have it for all printers we got. It works perfectly fine with XP but not does not map printers in Win 7 (currently +-110 machines). I have disabled UAC, I have tried few registry fixes as well:

 

1.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa]

"lmcompatibilitylevel"=dword:00000002

 

2.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]

"ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin"=dword:00000000

"ConsentPromptBehaviorUser"=dword:00000003

"EnableInstallerDetection"=dword:00000001

"EnableLUA"=dword:00000000

"EnableSecureUIAPaths"=dword:00000001

"EnableUIADesktopToggle"=dword:00000000

"EnableVirtualization"=dword:00000001

"PromptOnSecureDesktop"=dword:00000000

"ValidateAdminCodeSignatures"=dword:00000000

"dontdisplaylastusername"=dword:00000000

"legalnoticecaption"=""

"legalnoticetext"=""

"scforceoption"=dword:00000000

"shutdownwithoutlogon"=dword:00000001

"undockwithoutlogon"=dword:00000001

"FilterAdministratorToken"=dword:00000000

"EnableLinkedConnections"=dword:00000001

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\UIPI]

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\UIPI\Clipboard]

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\UIPI\Clipboard\ExceptionFormats]

"CF_TEXT"=dword:00000001

"CF_BITMAP"=dword:00000002

"CF_OEMTEXT"=dword:00000007

"CF_DIB"=dword:00000008

"CF_PALETTE"=dword:00000009

"CF_UNICODETEXT"=dword:0000000d

"CF_DIBV5"=dword:00000011

 

In some cases I`m able to see the printer, some printers does not map at all,

Has any of you have similar problem when migrating to Win 7?

[3s-gtech]

Our printer scripts caused Windows 7 to fail the logon. They were ditched in favour of GPP printers, been pretty good really, on both XP and 7.

[sted]

ive found script for printers on win7 arent worth the effort i deploy them via group policy (available from 2003 r2 server inwards)

[somabc]

You can use powershell

$PrinterPath = "\\machine\printer"
([wmiclass]"Win32_Printer").AddPrinterConnection($PrinterPath)

 

or

$PrinterPath = "\\machine\printer"
(New-Object -ComObject WScript.Network).AddWindowsPrinterConnection($PrinterPath)

[NorthernNoel]

We added a logon script with a loopback policy for example:

 

		Set WshNetwork = CreateObject("Wscript.network")
	PrinterPath1 = "\\srv-print-a\IT1-HP3525MONO"
	PrinterPath2 = "\\srv-print-a\IT1-HP3525nCOLOUR"
	PrinterDriver1 = "HP LaserJet 3525 Black"
	PrinterDriver2 = "HP LaserJet 3525 Colour"
	Wshnetwork.addwindowsprinterconnection Printerpath1, Printerdriver1
	Wshnetwork.addwindowsprinterconnection Printerpath2, Printerdriver2
	Wshnetwork.setdefaultprinter "\\srv-print-a\IT1-HP3525MONO"

 

PCL5 drivers appear to work best and we also enabled the following group policy as non signed drivers would not work without.

 

Computer Config/Policies/Admin Templates/Printers/Point and Print Restrictions setting is disabled.

[sparkeh]

I also dumped login scripts for GPPs, no need to muck around with scripts anymore.

 

edit: straight forward guide here

Edited September 30, 2010 by sparkeh