how to remove printer installed to machine?

[Guest totoro]

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]

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]

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.

 

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Jack Doyle, Systems Engineer

ScriptLogic Corporation

http://www.scriptlogic.com