Allow non administrator users to install printers
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@Grey said in Allow non administrator users to install printers:
@Dashrender said in Allow non administrator users to install printers:
As @JaredBusch mentioned - I do this.
I have print queues setup for all of my printer types on the server. This then has the drivers installed on the server. When you create the printers in your GPO, you can set them up as IP direct printers, but you still point them to the print server to get the driver. This has worked very well for my remote locations where I don't have a print server. The machine gets the GPO, then adds the printer and downloads the driver from the remote print server, but after that, prints IP direct.
It will only print 'direct' if you have enabled Branch Office Direct Printing.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134156(v=ws.11).aspxI'll look at that post in a min, But I haven't intensionally done anything regarding Branch Office Direct Printing and it's working just fine.
My GPO Printer objects have the IP address for the printers in them. The Print Queues setup on the server have IPs for printers in my main location, and know nothing about the IPs of the printers in the remote location - so I'm not sure how it would be flowing through the server, if that's being implied here.
Here is the setup page from GP
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My normal printer queue based ones look like this
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@Dashrender said in Allow non administrator users to install printers:
@Grey said in Allow non administrator users to install printers:
@Dashrender said in Allow non administrator users to install printers:
As @JaredBusch mentioned - I do this.
I have print queues setup for all of my printer types on the server. This then has the drivers installed on the server. When you create the printers in your GPO, you can set them up as IP direct printers, but you still point them to the print server to get the driver. This has worked very well for my remote locations where I don't have a print server. The machine gets the GPO, then adds the printer and downloads the driver from the remote print server, but after that, prints IP direct.
It will only print 'direct' if you have enabled Branch Office Direct Printing.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134156(v=ws.11).aspxI'll look at that post in a min, But I haven't intensionally done anything regarding Branch Office Direct Printing and it's working just fine.
My GPO Printer objects have the IP address for the printers in them. The Print Queues setup on the server have IPs for printers in my main location, and know nothing about the IPs of the printers in the remote location - so I'm not sure how it would be flowing through the server, if that's being implied here.
Here is the setup page from GP
And you just set all printers to static IP's I assume?
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Additionally if I go this option and the server dies tomorrow does that mean no one can print?
Or the server is simply giving permission to install and serving up the drivers, and everything else simply becomes local?
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I assume this isnt actually the case?
"The Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) schema must use a Windows Server 2003 R2 or Windows Server 2008 schema version."
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@Sparkum said in Allow non administrator users to install printers:
I assume this isnt actually the case?
"The Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) schema must use a Windows Server 2003 R2 or Windows Server 2008 schema version."
lol no. I use 2012. I think it means 2003 or above. My FL is 2008.
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@Sparkum said in Allow non administrator users to install printers:
And you just set all printers to static IP's I assume?
This is one option - JB uses DHCP reservations for things like printers.
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@Sparkum said in Allow non administrator users to install printers:
Additionally if I go this option and the server dies tomorrow does that mean no one can print?
Or the server is simply giving permission to install and serving up the drivers, and everything else simply becomes local?
No, the server is only used in my case to get the driver. Once the driver is installed, I'm not sure it ever talks to the server again.
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Hmm very interesting and awesome!
Thanks guys, looks like I have my project for tomorrow.
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@Sparkum said in Allow non administrator users to install printers:
Hmm very interesting and awesome!
Thanks guys, looks like I have my project for tomorrow.
Honestly, if you use the print management tool, you'll be done before lunch.
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That sounds awesome, I can only imagine how much time my lower tier spends on installing these stupid things.
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@Sparkum said in Allow non administrator users to install printers:
That sounds awesome, I can only imagine how much time my lower tier spends on installing these stupid things.
o.O
The PM tool is part of Windows 7+, chief. It's not a tiered tool or anything.
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@Grey said in Allow non administrator users to install printers:
@Sparkum said in Allow non administrator users to install printers:
That sounds awesome, I can only imagine how much time my lower tier spends on installing these stupid things.
o.O
The PM tool is part of Windows 7+, chief. It's not a tiered tool or anything.
Hopefully he's talking about how much time his helpdesk spends manually creating printers for people.
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Haha sorry ya thats what I meant.
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Hey guys.
So just doing some more reading on Branch Office Direct Printing just kinda finding mixed opinions.
So all of our computers are Windows 7 (and prob will be for a good while)
Can I use branch office direct printing? I assume thats my best option right? Alot is saying Windows8+ only with a fall back to legacy,
Rather will I see a benefit to using it now versus just future proofing.
Thanks
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I've never used Branch Office Direct Printing, frankly I'm not sure what the gain is over what I'm doing today?