Hey guys.

New here. SAM brought me over, excited to see alot of familiar faces here. Layout looks really sweet too.props to the designers.

Hey guys.

So I've been poking around with linux for a while, mainly Ubuntu and Debian.

So I finally pulled the trigger and bought a dedicated box so I can actually go hard with Linux

(Hp DL120 G7)

I know I've seen it here multiple times but what is the suggested VMWare alternative for Linux

Thanks!

Also any fun learning projects downstairs will be accepted and tried!

Well my wife oficially quit her job yesterday to stay home with our (for now ^_^, kinda hoping for 1 more) two boys.

So right now I'm gonna start spinning up a website and she's gonna start a home cake business ^_^

I would say this would probably be a better thing to take into private chat, but I was looking to pick someone's brain on Jet reports.

Currently have a huge report (61 pages) that when we upgraded our ERP started taking 3 hours to run. (From 45 minutes)

With some quick help from jet we cut it in half and were given some tasks to complete,

I've gone through all 61 pages, making tons of changes trying to increase performance and make it simply look better....

Up to taking over 2 hours to run now.

So obviously I did something wrong, looking to shoot some stuff back and forth with someone

Thanks

Alright so looking into it more, there is actually already 3D printers that print in icing. they were a kickstarter and run 1k (candian) there is also tons of food safe filaments, additionally you can change the printing protocol to lessen any gaps and create a smoother surface.

So if we even just look past all that and I buy one simply for the purpose of creating stencils for airbrushing. suggestions on printers?

Hey all.

I've tried once or twice before (and failed) to allow non administrators to install printers with all the management being done at the main office (~36 locations all on a MPLS)

So my question is, whats my best way? I'll start googling my options right now too but figured I'd check with the brain trust first

Thanks!

Well, threw my hat in the ring.

Sitting on my couch with my 2 month old asleep on me. (Took today off)

Nice! Upgrade++

Slowly getting better at website design by the minute (atleast I think so)

Currently running Plasma at home

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

@Dashrender

Haha sorry ya thats what I meant.

@Grey

That sounds awesome, I can only imagine how much time my lower tier spends on installing these stupid things.

@Dashrender

Hmm very interesting and awesome!

Thanks guys, looks like I have my project for tomorrow.

@Grey

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."

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?

@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).aspx

I'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
https://i.imgur.com/90e0Fqa.png

And you just set all printers to static IP's I assume?

Hey all.

So for the drivers for GPO I assume I'm going...

User configuration>Policies>Software Settings>Published Applications> then add my printer driver.

Then for permissions I would go

Computer configuration>Policies>Window Settings>Security Settings>Local Policies>Devices>>Devices:Prevent user from installing printer drivers: Disabled

And

Computer configuration>Policies>Administrative Template>Printers>>

Users can only point and print to these servers: Disabled
Enter fully qualified server names separated by semicolons
Users can only point and print to machines in their forest Disabled

Security Prompts:
When installing drivers for a new connection: Do not show warning or elevation prompt
When updating drivers for an existing connection: Do not show warning or elevation prompt
This setting only applies to:
Windows Vista and later

Is there anything else that would need to be added?
Or something I should remove?

And some of you are suggesting a printer server, so would you esentially do one server that has upwards of 50+ printers on it?

Thanks

Hey all.

I've tried once or twice before (and failed) to allow non administrators to install printers with all the management being done at the main office (~36 locations all on a MPLS)

So my question is, whats my best way? I'll start googling my options right now too but figured I'd check with the brain trust first

Thanks!