Cannot Right Click Terminal Services Cannot Set Default Printer

[Guest xrees]

This was a good one.

 

The Terminal Server OU was put in a LOCKED DOWN state, before we came

on site.

Users could barely do anything from the Start Menu.

Which for most cases is a good thing.

Unfortunately, one of things they couldn't do was set their DEFAULT

PRINTER. When they tried to right-click on a printer to set it to

default, the context menu would NOT appear.

Ouch.

 

So after hunting the Internet for every possible fix for why Terminal

Server Clients couldn't set their DEFAULT PRINTER, the answer actually

lay in something deeper (and simpler) than that. They actually

couldn't RIGHT CLICK on anything.

 

So after browsing thru the LOCKDOWN policy for the OU, I found the

following entry:

 

User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows

Explorer\Remove Windows Explorer's Default Context Menu - Enabled

 

Disabled it, giving the users the ability to RIGHT-CLICK on things.

Including being able to set the DEFAULT PRINTER.

 

LMK

[Guest TP]

Re: Cannot Right Click Terminal Services Cannot Set Default Printer

 

Hi,

 

Thanks for posting your experience.

 

Another way that users can set the default printer is to

choose File - Set as Default Printer. This assumes that

you have not set the group policy option which removes

the file menu.

 

-TP

 

xrees wrote:

> This was a good one.

>

> The Terminal Server OU was put in a LOCKED DOWN state, before we came

> on site.

> Users could barely do anything from the Start Menu.

> Which for most cases is a good thing.

> Unfortunately, one of things they couldn't do was set their DEFAULT

> PRINTER. When they tried to right-click on a printer to set it to

> default, the context menu would NOT appear.

> Ouch.

>

> So after hunting the Internet for every possible fix for why Terminal

> Server Clients couldn't set their DEFAULT PRINTER, the answer actually

> lay in something deeper (and simpler) than that. They actually

> couldn't RIGHT CLICK on anything.

>

> So after browsing thru the LOCKDOWN policy for the OU, I found the

> following entry:

>

> User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows

> Explorer\Remove Windows Explorer's Default Context Menu - Enabled

>

> Disabled it, giving the users the ability to RIGHT-CLICK on things.

> Including being able to set the DEFAULT PRINTER.

>

> LMK