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Deleting shared network printers from user accounts in XP

If a regular user has added a printer by going to a share \\share and then right clicked on a printer and then clicked 'connect', how can that be removed by an administrator? I have tried prnmngr.vbs and rundll32 commands but they do not affect…
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Printserver configuration B&W preferred, Color choseable

We are in the process of replacing a selection of different old black&white and color printers with several new color multifunction devices. This might lead to greatly increased printing costs. This year, we had about 400k b&w and 100k color…
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Shared printer deployed via Group Policy Policies in per-machine mode only appears to domain Administrator, other users need a reboot

I deployed a shared printer via Group Policy, Policies method (not Preferences), per-machine. But only the domain Administrator gets it mapped immediately. Other accounts, even other members of Domain Admins, need a reboot to make it show up for…
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Shared Printer on Windows 10

My company is upgrading to Windows 10 from Windows 7. One computer has a printer locally connected to it while other computers would connect remotely. Post 10 Upgrade, only an admin, myself, is able to connect to it. Everyone who isn't an admin is…
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Why is group policy for setting default printer being run as SYSTEM when 'Run in logged-on user's security context' is selected?

I have taken over administration of a 2008 r2 domain where there were two group policies for creating network printer shares on domain user logon: GPO1 to map network printers: GPO > User Configuration > Policies > Windows Settings > Deployed…
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Disable Ability to Print or Install Printers via UNC Path

Is there a way to disable printing or installing printers via UNC path? If a printer is added via UNC path in our RDP environment, it shows up for every user on the same collection. If the printer is added by selecting "Find a printer in the…
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Share printer job queue among multiple printers

Is it possible to have multiple printers and only one printer job queue? Any good software or hardware solution? Idea is like so: someone sends a print job to printer (possibly shared via Windows Server 2012+) this job is then queued in printers'…
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Can't delete a deployed printer from users computers

I am facing some weird issues when trying to remove a printer from the users machines on my domain that was deployed with Group policy. When I try to remove it I get "access deny" message even tho I login as admin. The policy is targeting…
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Determining printers with state "Needs New Driver" via WMI/VBS

Everytime a change is made to our print server, some printers from what staff (without admin rights) have added to their printer list report "Needs new driver" in Devices & Printers (pre Win 10)/Printers & Scanners (post Win 10). See below…
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Why doesn't Reader DC send a printjob to a shared printer in a terminal server environment?

I'm experiencing a very odd issue. We work in a terminal environment using Adobe Acrobat Reader DC and printers that are shared on a print server and pushed to users in the Terminal Servers using a GPO. Sometimes a user experiences an issue where…
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printer not responding using CUPS

I have a windows server 2008 r2 set up and an Ubuntu 12.04. The FTP works and the printer I created in the server is accessible to the other client, a windows 7. I followed this but no luck and of course I tried Googling and messing around, I…
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How do I remove "on PrintServerName" from printer name when deployed?

We are publishing shared printers from a print server with GPP (Win Server 2012 R2), and all is good and well. But is it possible to have the shared printers added to the clients without the "on PrintServerName" in their names? For example a TCP/IP…
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Shared Printer DENY Print ACL assigned to AD Security Group not Working

I have three servers. Server 1 - Print Server, Windows Server 2008 Standard Server 2 - Domain Controller, Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Server 3 - Terminal Services Server, Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard On Server 1 I have 5 printers installed.…
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Group Policy Printer Mapping: Some printers are being skipped

I have a Group Policy Object designed for users in a particular department which should delete all existing printer mappings, and then map all users to 9 different printers (all on the same server). The issue is that the "Delete All" item does not…
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Access Denied 2003 server shared printer on Vista

Here's the facts. I have a Domain Controller running Windows 2003 Server R2 (Standard edition) with up to now only XP Client in a High School environment. I have an accounting system to manage how much student can print on my server so the printer…
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