Rename networked printer down to clients

[TCLiven]

Hi All -

I want to rename a networked printer on the print server W3K server, however I have over 1500 users. Is there a way to make sure the printer gets renamed on the client side w/o individually doing it? I tried just renaming and then printing, but it states the printer is no longer available. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[58sniper]

Your best bet is to either head over to the vbscript forum here and script it out, or use Windows Server 2003 R2 print management (if you've got R2 on the print server) to push out the printer. You'd likely still need to use vbscript to yank out the original.

Pat Richard
Microsoft Exchange MVP
Contributing author Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: The Complete Reference

 

[TCLiven]

Thank you for your quick response. I do have R2. How do I do it w/R2? I'll search microsofts site as well. Thanks again

 

[58sniper]

Using R2, you create the printer (if that's not already done), then use the print management to assign the printer to a GPO. Set the GPO to apply to the machines, and to run the pushprinterconnection.exe as a machine startup script.

This will deploy the printers to the machine. I typically put the machines in a group, and apply the GPO to a group. That way, if I don't want a specific machine to have a specific printer anymore, I just remove that machine from the appropriate group.

Pat Richard
Microsoft Exchange MVP
Contributing author Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: The Complete Reference