Group Policy - Printer Deployment

G I Jones

Mostly what I see on how to deploy a printer to a specific user via Group Policy is to actually use Print Management instead and right click the printer in question and "Deploy with Group Policy", do a little dance, and voila.

My question is where is that change at on that GPO it creates?

I looked under User Configuration>Preferences>Control Panel Settings>Printers but no rule is there.

Additionally I looked under Computer Configuration>Preferences>Control Panel Settings>Printers and nothing there either.

Any ideas?

dbeato

It is under User Configuration>Policies>Windows Settings> Deployed Printers

dbeato

For Computers though it is under:
Computer Configuration>Policies>Windows Settings> Deployed Printers

G I Jones

@dbeato I don't have that under Windows settings. Just Scripts, Security Settings, Folder Redirection, Policy-based Qos.

dbeato

@g-i-jones said in Group Policy - Printer Deployment:

@dbeato I don't have that under Windows settings. Just Scripts, Security Settings, Folder Redirection, Policy-based Qos.

What is your DC OS? This has been there since Server 2003, 2008 .

G I Jones

@dbeato 2012 R2

G I Jones

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dbeato

@g-i-jones said in Group Policy - Printer Deployment:

@dbeato 2012 R2

Install the Print Management tools on the server, it should show after that.

G I Jones

@dbeato Bro, thank you!

JaredBusch

Fuck printers.
Fuck printer servers.
Fuck GPO based printing.

JaredBusch

I'm right in the middle of scripting printer deployment.

This is the script that I made @TechnicalAngel work out for one of our clients.

#Jeff City HP 500 Color MFP
# setup the variables to throughout. These will become parameters.
$PrinterName = "HP 500 Color"
$PrinterPort = "10.202.20.23C"
$PortHost = "10.202.20.23"
$DriverLocation = "\\someshare\Software\Drivers\Printers\HP_LJPM570\hpcm570u.inf"
$DriverName = "HP LaserJet 500 color MFP M570 PCL 6"


# Import Print Management Module
Import-Module PrintManagement

# Remove any existing printer port
# you will see an error is it does not exist, just ignore
# todo wrap in if statement
Remove-PrinterPort -name $PrinterPort

# Add the printer port
Add-PrinterPort -Name $PrinterPort -PrinterHostAddress $PortHost

# Add the driver to the driver store
# using this because had failures with -InfPath in Add-PrinterDriver
Invoke-Command {pnputil.exe -a $DriverLocation }

# Add the print driver 
 Add-PrinterDriver -name $DriverName

# Add the printer
Add-Printer -name $PrinterName -PortName $PrinterPort -DriverName $DriverName

# Set printer to print mono or color
Set-PrintConfiguration -PrinterName $PrinterName -Color $true

###Set this printer as the default printer
$Printers = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Printer
$Printer = $Printers | Where{$_.Name -eq "$PrinterName"} 
$Printer.SetDefaultPrinter() | Out-Null

JaredBusch

This setting is used to kill that stupid "let Windows manage my default printer" setting.

Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows" -Name "LegacyDefaultPrinterMode" -Value 1 -Force

dbeato

@jaredbusch said in Group Policy - Printer Deployment:

This setting is used to kill that stupid "let Windows manage my default printer" setting.
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows" -Name "LegacyDefaultPrinterMode" -Value 1 -Force

YEp, works pretty good.