Guest totoro Posted November 13, 2007 Posted November 13, 2007 I've been tinkering with Print Management on 2003 R2 and was having great success installing printers to PCs using GPO. Works like a dream. But once the printers are on the machine they seem to be on for ever. No user can delete them. Every user on the PC has to connect to every printer at log-on. Forever. I think that's a bit much. Is there a way to remove these deployed printers? I have had success connecting by user with log-on scripts. That seems more flexible. Thanks for you help!!!
Guest totoro Posted November 14, 2007 Posted November 14, 2007 RE: how to remove printer installed to machine? start>run>regedit navigate to My Computer\HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Connections delete listed connections. "totoro" wrote: > I've been tinkering with Print Management on 2003 R2 and was having great > success installing printers to PCs using GPO. Works like a dream. > > But once the printers are on the machine they seem to be on for ever. No > user can delete them. Every user on the PC has to connect to every printer at > log-on. Forever. I think that's a bit much. > > Is there a way to remove these deployed printers? > > I have had success connecting by user with log-on scripts. That seems more > flexible. > > Thanks for you help!!!
Guest Jack Doyle Posted November 20, 2007 Posted November 20, 2007 Re: how to remove printer installed to machine? totoro wrote: > I've been tinkering with Print Management on 2003 R2 and was having great > success installing printers to PCs using GPO. Works like a dream. > > But once the printers are on the machine they seem to be on for ever. No > user can delete them. Every user on the PC has to connect to every printer at > log-on. Forever. I think that's a bit much. > > Is there a way to remove these deployed printers? Without trying to sound like I'm selling something here, you may want to take a look at Desktop Authority from ScriptLogic (http://www.scriptlogic.com/products/DesktopAuthority/). With Desktop Authority, you can assign printers to your users based on any criteria (group membership, organizational unit, IP address, etc) and then you also have the option of having those computers (all of them, or individually) removed when the user no longer needs them. This way, you can be sure that only the necessary printers are connected when the user is logged in. The connected printers can be different based on the computer the user is using, too. -- Jack Doyle, Systems Engineer ScriptLogic Corporation http://www.scriptlogic.com
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