This would not work in my environment, and my search was yielding less-tempting results. I wanted to use Group Policy and its magic to do my bidding across my organization!īut every article spoke of creating a printer, or connecting to a shared printer. Now, you could do this with scripting, but I want to avoid scripts now, the best I can.

Since I have many printers in my building, when moving to Active Directory, once request came in to support changing the default printers. These can be deployed with PDQ, so I’m happy! EXE file that runs, and installs the printer queue, complete with port settings, name, defaulting to colour or black & white (depending on printer), double sided, etc. These packages are essentially printer queues with default settings already entered for the Printer Preferences - you know, the items you CAN NOT change easily from a remote location, to many systems?Īnyways, the printer packages contain a folder of all the files needed, and a simple. In the environment that I support, we have “Printer Packages” by the manufacturer.

Almost every article I read assumed the reader had a print server available, or would deploy a local printer connection right from the Group Policy Management Console. I got disappointed after searching high and low on Google for how to use Group Policy in order to set a default printer.

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