4

I have performed some research, and it appears that I can target both XP and 7 clients with group policy preferences to add a shared printer.

This article describes the presence of a Shared Printer item on the New menu in the group policy preferences Control Panel Settings item Printers, but all I have listed are: TCP/IP Printer and Local Printer.

The server which I am using to create the GPO is Windows 2008 R2.

Why doesn't the New Printer option allow me to create a Shared Printer?

mbrownnyc
  • 1,825
  • 8
  • 30
  • 50

1 Answers1

6

Are you in the right configuration container? It only shows up in the User Configuration, not the Computer Configuration (since the user account/profile is required to map to a shared printer).

GPO pic

TheCleaner
  • 32,352
  • 26
  • 126
  • 188
  • Note [the answer here](http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverGP/thread/b11e3ad1-7941-48a3-90a5-a40dce0c8c09) describes a method of using a local printer, and assigning the port the UNC path to the desired printer. This policy is available to the HKLM/Computer scope. – mbrownnyc Apr 17 '13 at 11:57
  • 1
    @mbrownnyc - as mentioned on that thread, this is where Loopback processing of a GPO comes into play. If you want this to apply to a group of computers, you can use Loopback processing to make this work (say for a lab or a particular floor of computers) – TheCleaner Apr 17 '13 at 13:14
  • Thanks again! [technet](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc757470(v=WS.10).aspx) & [kb](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/231287). Instead of using this, I simply adjusted `item-level targetting` of `ip address range` on the `shared printer` `GPP`. – mbrownnyc Apr 17 '13 at 19:25