Group Policy Windows 2008 Printers

08-29-09, 12:08 AM

JackH

Lets say we have 2 people. One needs to print to network printer a and the
2nd needs to print to network printer b. They both need to have printer a
and b installed.

How can I tell the group policy that person 1 needs to have printer a set as
default and person 2 needs printer b set as default when they both need to
have both installed?

I only see an optin to use any type of validation logic on this.

Does this make sense?

08-29-09, 08:07 AM

Florian Frommherz [MVP]

Jack,

JackH schrieb:
> Lets say we have 2 people. One needs to print to network printer a and the
> 2nd needs to print to network printer b. They both need to have printer a
> and b installed.
>
> How can I tell the group policy that person 1 needs to have printer a set as
> default and person 2 needs printer b set as default when they both need to
> have both installed?
>
> I only see an optin to use any type of validation logic on this.

You either need to script that with the printui.dll functionality or you
need to use Group Policy Preferences for that:
http://blogs.technet.com/grouppolicy...t-printer.aspx

Cheers,
Florian

08-30-09, 12:31 AM

JackH

Yep. I'm using the Group Policy Preference.
However, since two people need both installed and each one needs the other
set as default, in GP I can tell it to install each and set each one as
default but nothing to dcipher if it should be default if hte other is
already default or osmething like that. Kind of hard to explain. Does this
make sense?

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08-30-09, 02:16 PM

Florian Frommherz [MVP]

Howdie!

JackH schrieb:
> Yep. I'm using the Group Policy Preference.
> However, since two people need both installed and each one needs the other
> set as default, in GP I can tell it to install each and set each one as
> default but nothing to dcipher if it should be default if hte other is
> already default or osmething like that. Kind of hard to explain. Does this
> make sense?

Hmm - you basically create 4 Preference Printer settings in one GPO.
(1) Printer A as the default printer
(2) Printer A
(3) Printer B as the default printer
(4) Printer B

After that, you need to think about a good way to item-level-target the
printers so that user A gets (1) and (3) and user B gets (2) and (4)
applied. You know how to use item-level targeting, right?

Cheers,
Florian

08-31-09, 02:11 AM

JackH

Hey, yes. I didn't think about doing it that way.

You rock!!!!

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08-31-09, 07:46 AM

Florian Frommherz [MVP]

Hey Jack,

JackH schrieb:
> Hey, yes. I didn't think about doing it that way.
>
> You rock!!!!

See? Item-level-targeting and GP Preferences rock! :-)

Florian

08-31-09, 11:31 PM

JackH

MS has definately made a great step forward with this. I'm surprised it
took them so long though. :)

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