Deploying printers question

kirbz · 17 Mar 2013 at 10:47

Hi all,

I have a question about rolling out printers.

Our current set up is rolling them out using a login script, printers are installed on the server and shares set up. (\\server\printer)

The question I have is, is there a way of installing the associated print drivers on client machines without needed admin rights? It's fine on xp, but on vista upwards you need admin rights.

Ideally I would install all printer drivers for the site first, then use the login script to remove all the printers and re add them depending on the user type as different users need access to different printers.

Thanks all

kirbz · 17 Mar 2013 at 14:00

Hi,

Thanks for your suggestion, is it the deploy printer option in GPO? I did that and ran a gpupdate /force and nothing happened. I'll have a good play with it tomorrow looking at what you said.

Also the scripts are ran using gpo. Tried running as login and startup but it asked to install drivers.

kirbz · 18 Mar 2013 at 22:06

Hi,

I've figured this out, after much googling I basically just did point 3 and print drivers just installed. There are 2 settings for updating and adding print drivers which I set to run without elevated prompts.

As you can tell I am new to servers, ad and gpo and am still learning, I've only dabbled before my current job.

Thanks all.

kirbz · 20 Mar 2013 at 23:10

Ah yeah it is a black art but I'm getting the best experience with them, its a shame they get overlooked, I look after 5 sites IT which means 5 servers ranging from 2003 to 2012 so a lot of variation. It's interesting though.

I make good use of gpupdate and gpresult too

I'll be lingering in here a lot more now.