GPO to deploy Local printer

[Rikk30]

Hi
My new boss gave me a task of setting up local printers in our 25 branch offices because of bandwidth issues between the main office and our branch offices. There are as many as 4 printers at the offices.

So instead of manually adding tcp/ip port on each machine at each office I want to do this via gpo.

The domain is a 2003 AD domain. All printing goes from the branch to the main office and we want to install local printers to cut the bandwidth usage down for other applications.

Any siggestions?

 

[baddos]

Yes, you can do this easily with group policy preferences. You will need to have a print server for the install though, as it downloads the drivers and setting from the print server once.

 

[JPJeffery]

There's a wee MS utility called PushPrinterConnections.exe which will do the job nicely. Don't make the same mistake I did and apply this as a thing to run on the client though! It pushes the settings to the clients from the server...(I know, "Duh!")

The following articles will send you in the right direction:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755424(WS.10).aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722179(WS.10).aspx

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973878

JJ
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