Re: Deploy Printers with GP in Win2k3 R2

This technet article contains a bit more detail of what is going on:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2006/08/ManagePrinters/.

First, I would establish that a given printer can be deployed in the normal
way, through the Add a Printer client function. Then you could check that
the per-user policy is being applied to the users you expect. Then finally
you can see if you have any errors from the Pushprinterconnections.exe
client side.

Hope that helps,
Anthony - - %20
http://www.airdesk.co.uk




"abckid" <abckid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:3710F340-094D-4287-9760-C10804EBBF50@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,

We have a Win2K3 Std domain at Central Office. We have Win2K3 std DC at
our
site. We have installed a new Win2K3 - R2 Std Server as File & Print
Server.
This is a member of the domain.

The schema is upgraded to R2 Version 31. There are no DNS or Replication
problems.

There is an option from the Print Management in Win2K3 R2 to deploy the
printer with Group Policy. Link to same is -
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Deploying-Printers-Group-Policy-Windows-R2.html.

Now when i follow the steps as mentioned in the above link, the printer is
not getting deployed with Per User settings. I used the parameter to log
the
error and it was as below

Microsoft Windows Operating System Deploy Printer Connections Utility v1.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

... Logging enabled by command line switch.
... Logging started at 11:52:41 AM 9/16/2007.
... Found and applied this GPO: DeployPrinters.
... Found Deployed Printer Connection setting \\server3\Printer in Active
Directory.
... Failed to search local GPO. Access is denied.
... Registry search for installed printers failed. The operation completed
successfully.
... Failed to deploy per user connection \\server3\Printer. Access is
denied.

Since there was no mentioning about the printer sharing, i did not share
the
printer. After i shared the printer with any name, the user were able to
get
the printer connection. But i am not sure, that do we have to share the
printer or the script would connect it without sharing ? (wild thought
!!!)

Further i have created a group and the required users are members of this
group. So only users i add in this group gets the connection to particular
printer. But when i remove the user from the group, the printer should not
be
deployed for that user, but i see after deploying the printer once, it
does
not get disconnected even if the user is not a member of the GP that
deploys
that printer. Further if the printer gets deployed with GP then the log
would
show the connection made, which does not. So the GP is not actually
applied,
but the printer connections seems to be permanent.

Please guide.

Thanks,

abckid.


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