Hi there,
We have Windows Server 2012 print server with number of shared printers.
Clients are Windows 7 - both 32 and 64 bit.
Printers are connected to clients by *.vbs script located in all users Startup directory.
Everything was working fine until we changed the printers drivers.
Originally all printer drivers were type 4, unfortunately those drivers are not compatible with PCounter - software for print accounting.
We changed all drivers for type 3 and now non-admin users cannot update drivers on the client and therefore cannot connect to the printer.
Group Policy settings:
Devices: Prevent users from installing printer drivers - Disabled
Print and Point Restrictions - Enabled/Do not show warning or elevation prompt (for both installing new and update existing drivers. That settings is enabled for Computer and User Configuration)
Allow non-administrators to install drivers for these device setup classes - Enabled. Added classes are {4d36e979-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}, {4658ee7e-f050-11d1-b6bd-00c04fa372a7}, {48721b56-6795-11d2-b1a8-0080c72e74a2}
On the new installed client systems non-admin users can connect to the printers and proper drivers are loaded, but if the printer was connected before we changed drivers on the server the update is restricted.
Removing installed network printers, removing local user profiles, deleting the drivers from driver store does not help. Adding and installing proper drivers to the driver store (by pnputil) doesn't help either.
Any ideas apart from re-ghosting all students computers? Thanks in advance.
Regards.