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In our organisation we have around 30 printers an we are currently connecting for the user all the printers using a logon script that calls the command line app con2prt for a series of printers. 

 con2prt /c %1

But this has the great problem that many user can stop the script and that means they end up not having all the printers available.

Can I connect all the available network printers without using the logonscript or the command line app?

HopelessN00b
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Have you tried Print Services of Windows Server?

Technet: Windows Server Print Services

Specific Instructions here:

To install printers to groups of users or computers by using Group Policy

  1. Open the Administrative Tools folder, and then double-click Print Management.
  2. In the Print Management tree, under the appropriate print server, click Printers.
  3. In the results pane, right-click the printer you want to deploy, and then click Deploy with Group Policy.
  4. In the Deploy with Group Policy dialog box, click Browse, and then choose a Group Policy object.
  5. Click OK.

  6. To assign the printer connection setting to the GPO, do one or both of the following:

    As a per-user setting, select the The users that this GPO applies to (per user) check box.

    As a per-machine setting, select the The computers that this GPO applies to (per machine) check box.

  7. Click Add.

  8. Repeat steps 3 to 6 to add the printer connection setting to another GPO.

  9. Click OK.

Eduard Florinescu
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    I should point out that Windows Server Print Services are not required to do this. The GPOs can be created directly through Group Policy Management, and will achieve the same result. – Foxocube Dec 16 '14 at 01:20