Psymon

In case anyone else uses UPD with a similar setup to us - HP have acknowledged the problem, but a new driver hasn't come out for 7 months (December 2011). I created a post on the HP forum at the time - still no luck with a response - HP Communities - HP UPD - Universal Print Driver - Colour\Greyscale... - Enterprise Business Community Simon

The group policy preferences has a "Shortcuts" area which allows you to perform delete commands. Just remove the shortcut from the "Public Destop" i think it is named. Else you could script it with a del command, or if the shortcuts area failes use "Files" and go directly to C:\Users\Public\Public Desktop Simon

Hi, We have had the HP UPD since about v4.8, running absolutely fine on our print server which is a virtual 2008R2 (SP1) box hosting both x64 and x86 drivers - we currently have v5.3 on the majority of printers, v5.4 on the re-installs I will mention below. The appeal of the Universal driver is that we have the ability to configure "Printing Shortcuts" which are all deployed to the user, allowing us to default our printers to duplex and greyscale, and easily allow the end-user to change to any of the options we have deployed. The options we tend to deploy are as follows - Mono - single sided printing Mono - double sided printing Colour - single sided printing Colour - double sided printing Since we have re-installed a few of the printers from scratch, the "Print in greyscale" toggle seems to be ignored in some situations. Example 1 The default "Printing Shortcut" is set to "Mono - double sided printing" and the user would like to print in colour The user clicks "Printer Properties" and changes the "Printing Shortcut" to one of the colour options The visual thumbnail at the top right changes to reflect this (the graph in the thumbnail is now in colour) The user clicks "OK" to close the properties window, and presses print. The document comes out in greyscale..... Example 2 The default "Printing Shortcut" is set to "Colour - double sided printing" and the user would like to print in greyscale The user clicks "Printer Properties" and changes the "Printing Shortcut" to one of the greyscale options The visual thumbnail at the top right changes to reflect this (the graph in the thumbnail is now in greyscale) The user clicks "OK" to close the properties window, and presses print. The image comes out in colour..... It seems that the "Print in greyscale" toggle is ignored by the printing shortcuts - and will default back to the option chosen for the default "Printing Shortcut" deployed with the driver - this does not affect the duplex settings, paper settings etc... Just the "Print in greyscale" option. I have tried using the v5.3 driver, the issue is also present. Anyone else experiencing this issue? I am most likely going to post this on the HP forum as well - see if they are aware of the issue or if it seems to be isolated. Cheers, Simon

Backing up a DC is not the best of ideas - it should only be used for recovery in a disaster situation. Best practice is to simply have another DC. We run a Virtual environment using Hyper-V and our Hyper-V Host servers are domain joined machines - this means we have to have a DC outside of our cluster as it will not start the cluster and failover services until it can verify a DC is available (we have then made two virtual DC's inside our environment). The FSMO roles all belong to the physical machine, the other 2 DC's are global catalog servers as well. If the physical machine dies compeltely, i would simply forceable sieze the roles to one of the virtual servers, and keep the cluster running whilst I set up a new physical machine and transfer the roles to the physical machine once complete. The short answer is have a second DC - this is your backup.

We use the GPP Printer deployment method here. I set them up in our all-users policy, and targeted the Computer groups to deploy them on a per-machine basis. This means that everytime someone logs on it re-installs the printer (same as a log-on script would), the way to get a default set when deploying multiple printers is to change the ordering of the printers, we have about 12 set as default, the last applied printer becomes the winner. Give me 10 minutes and ill attach a couple of screen shots. Simon Edit - screenshots attached.

You are using standard TCP/IP ports? I had an issue like this with the HP "Auto-configure" on the HP Universal Print Drivers as we had pCounter (when the connection is tested by the HP software, it was going to the pCounter port, not the IP address / TCP/IP port. Simon

There is no need to copy the policies over every time you make a change. The ADMX files are simply the templates from which the group policy manager reads information from. The only time you would need to update the ADMX files is if new policies were created in a service pack / update. Simon

Do you have a central ADMX store? Usually in - \\DOMAINNAME\SYSVOL\DOMAINNAME\Policies\PolicyDefinitions You may have to copy over updated ADMX templates. Si

I would take this oppertunity to move to folder redirection personally. Si

We use GPP and this appears at every logon, maybe you do not have "Verbose" mode enabled in group policy? Simon

IE8 Printing/Print Preview and JAVA dont work for users * Original credit to Psymon for this post IE8 will display/print blank pages rather then correctly formatted pages due to a lack of a "Low" folder being created in the "Local" area of the logged in profile. This has also caused Java to crash the tab in my experience when it also was triggered on a web page. MS KB Article: You cannot print or print preview Web pages in Internet Explorer on Windows Vista or on Windows 7 To Fix: Basically you need to make a folder in c:\users\{username}\Appdata\local\temp called "Low" which then needs a special permission applied to it. Due to the fact this folder is flushed out at log out (roaming at least) you will have to do this each time someone logs in. A slightly modified version of a bat script created by Psymon is below which can be used as a user logon script and it will automatically create and set the correct permissions on the folder on logon. Code: @echo off If not exist %localappdata%\Temp\Low ( echo. echo Creating Low Folder... mkdir %localappdata%\Temp\Low ) echo. echo Apply Integrity Level... echo. ICACLS "%localappdata%\Temp\Low" /setintegritylevel (OI)(CI)low exit This has fixed Java and also the print/print preview issue for us This is from the following thread, http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-7/47835-windows-7-gotchas-tips-fyi.html. Sounds like the same issue (but only affecting that user).

John, Your best bet if using milestone is to set up the cameras to record locally and archive off to the NAS boxes. We only keep 6 hours locally, then archive off to NAS storage - as we are using a single raided NAS, we use "Dynamic Paths", which pretty much means each camera is set by default to "Dynamic" and uses \\UNCPath\Storage\ (defined in the app, not per-camera) then the camera's MAC address. In your setup you would choose where each camera archives its data (if using multiple NAS boxes), as opposed to setting them all to Dynamic. Hope this helps, Si Edit - We keep only 6 hours locally, this can be adjusted to archive off as frequently as you like (Minimum of once per 24hrs).

I would like to recommend Milestone as well. Its completely vendor neutral and very easy to manage / set up. We use Bosch IP Day/Night cameras and they run at 540i and are PoE. Simon

I have noticed that when deploying power settings to machines that they are created on the first restart, but not made active until the second restart. This could be a similar situation with your issue, logging on as two different people in successtion will change the profile, but not activate it. Alternatively one policy is overriding the other, 5minutes being the winner. Simon

We are also using a similar method. All of our computers are grouped per department in AD (COM_ICT, COM_Art, COM_DT). This then allows us to add staff laptops to the groups, and to be a member of multiple groups (multiple printers). If you are using GPP to set the default printer, make sure you arrange the printers so that the last installed is the default. Simon Edit - We are using security groups, not computer names. Remember to change the radio button to "Computers in this group" instead of users

There is also "Do not apply during periodic background processing" needs to be enabled in the following policy. [COMPUTER POLICY\ADMINISTRATIVE TEMPLATES\SYSTEM\GROUP POLICY\Network Shares preference extension policy processing] This should deal with the mapped drives. Si

The resolution for Printers was the following registry entry (which prevents printers being re-installed with GP refreshes). "Do not apply during periodic background processing" needs to be enabled in the following policy. [COMPUTER POLICY\ADMINISTRATIVE TEMPLATES\SYSTEM\GROUP POLICY\Printers preference extension policy processing] Hope this helps someone out. Si

The "Group policy printers policy" takes about 5-7seconds to install 1 HP (with UPD) and 2 Sharp MFP's on my machine. Si

I have found the HP Universal Print Drivers work really well. We have a single driver for x86 and x64 installed on the server supporting all HP Lasers. Si

Desktop backgrounds deployed by reg entries dont seem to work on first logon. Not sure why, but after first logon there are no issues. Could be something to do with profile creation and at what point the user logon registry entries are processed / what point the users profile is created. Si

It just means at some point offline files has been used on that account / machine. You could disable offline files in group policy, which would in turn remove the icon in the system tray (only if its not being used of course). Si

I also used this guide with no issues. Went virtual at the same time. Si

We had this a while back. This should solve the issue. Windows Firewall - Not Using Recommended Settings I posted it aaaaages ago Si

I did something similar in setting up a new RADIUS server. I had not added the server to the autoenroll group for the authentication certificate, took me 2 days to realise! S

Contink, It will simply add it as a network in the list of preferred networks. We have it set up the same way, and users can add there home wireless networks, the only thing they cannot do is set it to Home or Work (it must remain "public" in order to keep the file sharing, printer sharing etc... disabled). Simon