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Mort

Right,

If you have a printer in Active directory, is there a way of automatically making an organizational unit use a printer as in have it in their profile without using the add printer wizard whilst logged in as them.

In other words, we have a new printer, we want 250 people to use it all of whom are in the "Management" OU. we install the printer one night, and in the morning all of them must have it automatically as their default printer. we do not want to have to log in as each user and add it manually.... how do we do this?!

Thanks!!

Zimbo

Howdy buddy

Right we are running the same kind of system as you but luckily we only have just over 50 employees.

I was trying to sort something like this out within our offices but haven't gotten around to doing it yet.

Have you tried setting it up in a Startup script on the domain controller so that when they login it automatically sets up the printer.

I know if you were to do the following it would setup the printer on the machine.

Type in the location of the printer in that RUN menu e.g

\\SERVER\HP4200

If you type that on a machine where the printer isn't currently installed then it will install it.
So in theory you should be able to add that line to the startup script and that should work.

--EDIT-- Also check this site out, adding VBscript
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...alkthrough.asp

Mort

yup good one, just found out about the script method, well cool!

one question, what about drivers for the printer? would be cool if this would work on NT/2000 and XP clients.... am sure the XP machines will just use the 2003 server drivers.... but what about the other computers?

check out this script, it lets u decide by a naming convention which computers get which printers... pretty nifty!? It uses the first 3 characters of the compuer name to define the location of the computer!!

Code:

Set Network = CreateObject("Wscript.Network") 
compname = network.computername
room = left(compname,3)
? ?
Select Case room
? ? ? ? ? Case "D29"
? ? ? ? Network.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\server1\D29Laser" 
? ? ? ? Network.SetDefaultPrinter "\\server1\D29Laser" 

? ? ? ? ? Case "D28"
? ? ? ? Network.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\server1\D28Laser" 
? ? ? ? Network.SetDefaultPrinter "\\server1\D28Laser" 


case else
 
End Select

Zimbo

Nice script buddy

Normally when you setup the printers up on the server you can tell it whether to install the drivers onto the machine so that the network PC's can use them to install.

I am not too sure about the whole NT/2000 as we recently finished getting everyone up to XP Pro but I am sure there must be a function for you to install the drivers onto the drive for the network PC's