Comments on: The One Reason You Should Use Group Policy Preferences

By: Trevor

Trevor — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:00:45 +0000

Amazing! Just what I was looking for. I manage three computer labs and several different faculty groups and needed a way to define the default printer for those groups since the average user doesn’t look at which printer they are actually printing to. This will help reduce waste. Thanks!

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Group Policy Center » Blog Archive » What are Group Policy Preferences — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:50:56 +0000

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Windows 7 Group Policy Folder Redirection « Josh Nunn's Geekorium — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:16:02 +0000

[...] policies, I wanted to kill local-loopback too. A bit of research turned up this page on using GP Preferences to assign default printers, which I already knew and was using, but it advocated using [...]

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printers and login scripts - Page 2 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:57:54 +0000

[...] Sort of related to this topic. Setting default printers is mentioned here. Just tried it on my 2003 domain and it works lovely… I just used a 2008 non DC server to do the preferences Set Default Printer with Windows 2008 Server Group Policy Preferences – Set the Default Printer via … [...]

By: Michael Moore

Michael Moore — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:50:25 +0000

Actually, if you Item Level target a group which has a computer in it, it will still install the printer even though these preferences are under the User Configuration Section of the GPO.

Try it, saved on loopback.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:39:38 +0000

Is there a way to connect a printer based on a field in the users AD account like their office location? I tried LDAP queries with no success could be that I’m missing something.

Thanks,
Jason

By: Florian

Florian — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:50:09 +0000

Killerbe,

targetting doesn’t use WMI filtering. It most of the time uses (what I have seen so far) the built-in Windows API to evaluate the filter.

Cheers,
Florian

By: Killerbe

Killerbe — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:24:57 +0000

Short thought: Targetting probably uses WMI filtering. WMI Filtering is known to increase log-on times.

By: Daniel Anderson

Daniel Anderson — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:07:00 +0000

G’day Anthony, I have tested that scenario. Check out this post http://www.msserveradmin.com/deploy-printers-via-group-policy/

Hope that explains things.

Cheers
Daniel

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Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:04:00 +0000

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