Posts Tagged: group policy
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May 25, 2011
3 CommentsWindows Server 2008 R2 Domain Controller Default Domain Policy Default Settings
Below you can find a screenshot of Group Policy Management console on Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain Controller right after the clean installation (and promoting to a DC). These are the default Default Domain Policy settings on a clean Domain Controller. Not sure if it makes a difference but Forest and Domain functional level is...
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Aug 06, 2010
No CommentsAllow users to install local printers on Windows 7 using Group Policy
In addition to: http://theintegrity.co.uk/2010/08/how-to-allow-users-to-install-printers-using-group-policy/ which allows users to install printers shared on the network without Administrator credentials, below are the instructions on how to allow users install local printers on their machines. This comes handy if you want to allow laptop users to install printers at home. In Group Policy Management Editor go to: Computer...
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Aug 05, 2010
No CommentsHow to allow users to install shared printers using Group Policy
By default domain users are not allowed to install printers (printer drivers to be exact) on domain computers. You can create Group Policy Object that will allow users to install printer drivers and apply it to required users. This will allow users to connect to shared printers on your network, download and install drivers without...
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Jul 24, 2010
3 CommentsHow to remove printers using Group Policy in domain environment
This isn’t quite using Group Policy Settings but a Login Script that will remove printer connections on client machines. If you, for example, wanted to migrate print server from one machine to another (upgrade maybe) and you will use Group Policy to deploy new printers to users, you would ideally want to remove old printer...
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Jul 24, 2010
3 CommentsHow to deploy printers with Group Policy – Windows Server 2008, 7, Vista, XP
In this article I will show how to deploy printers using Group Policy to Windows 7, Vista and XP client machines. While for Windows 7 Group Policy settings just work, you need to do additional tasks to achieve required results on Windows Vista and Windows XP machines. I will use one server running Windows Server...