User\policies\admin templates\control panel\printers\point and print restrictions DISABLEDĪs Alan Morris from Microsoft states, Windows 7 reads the Point and Print Restrictions policy from COMPUTER. The OP reported a similar situation to the one you described and ultimately came to the conclusion that the following settings need to be configured as outlined below:Ĭomputer\policies\admin templates\printers\point and print restrictions DISABLED When looking for a resolution to the problem you described I came across this thread found on the TechNet forums. Also, you might want to confirm each user you were logging in has administrator access to the server. If Molan’s response does not resolve the issue at hand, you might try resolving a driver issue or conflict by first verifying drivers for Windows XP and Windows 7 32-bit and /or Windows 7 64-bit are present and accessible on the server. Has anyone else had anything similar please? Now, I KNOW that's not the case, seeing as the drivers DO exist on the server, and HAVE been installed successfully on previous occasions, and everything I find online seems to point to the Point and Print restrictions, yet I've set these to disabled, and still get the same results. The computer preference item in the '' Group Policy object did not apply because it failed with error code '0x80070bcb The specified printer driver was not found on the system and needs to be downloaded.' This error was suppressed I can see in GPRESULT that the GPO is applying, but the printer install fails with the following event log entry:

This works absolutely FINE with XP (as I'm getting used to expecting!), but the printers do not appear on W7 clients.

I've set up a GPO, and used GP Preferences to deploy the printer connections, and Item Level Targeting to set the correct default printer per IP range (based on which site a user is visiting at any given time). That's not the best part! After all that messing around to get the initial GPO working (albeit not quite), we now have a requirement for clients to receive a different default printer, based on which of our sites they log on at. I've gone through all the usual stuff, such as disabling Point and Print restrictions in the GPO, etc.īut. Printers are deployed to W7 clients, and appear in their printer lists, but whenever a non-admin user (all of our users are non-admin) attempts to print to a deployed printer, it complains about the driver not being installed, goes through the rigmarole of installing the driver, and finally prints the document, yet next time an attempt is made to print to the printer, it goes through the EXACT same routine. Got it to a point where all printers install straight away just fine, no problems, on XP. Firstly, had a great time (not) rolling out deployed printers via GPO previously, from a 2003 print server, and a 2008 print server.

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