Automating Printer Installation

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Tim Kowal

Printers is one issue that has dogged me as an administrator. I can automate
just about any other task except for this. Seems like there should be a way
to tell the GP that I want all PCs to use a certain printer(s). Is there?
This would be extremely useful to me.

Thanks,
Tim
 
Hi Tim,

Thank you for posting!

I found two KB articles about how to unattended install printer in Windows.

314486 How to Add Printers with No User Interaction in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314486

263226 How to Add a Default Printer Using a Visual Basic Script
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=263226

I hope that it is helpful. Have a nice day!

Thanks & Regards,

Feng Mao [MSFT], MCSE
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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| Subject: Re: Automating Printer Installation
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| Autoprof makes a GP extension that allows this. Its part of their
| PolicyMaker product. You can certainly map printers using vbscript--but it
| doesn't handle installing the drivers if they're not there. Here's info on
| the vbscript method:
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/ht
ml/wsmthaddwindowsprinterconnection.asp
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| Darren Mar-Elia
| MS-MVP-Windows Management
| http://www.gpoguy.com
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| | > Printers is one issue that has dogged me as an administrator. I can
| automate
| > just about any other task except for this. Seems like there should be a
| way
| > to tell the GP that I want all PCs to use a certain printer(s). Is
there?
| > This would be extremely useful to me.
| >
| > Thanks,
| > Tim
| >
| >
|
|
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Tim Kowal said:
Printers is one issue that has dogged me as an administrator. I can automate
just about any other task except for this. Seems like there should be a way
to tell the GP that I want all PCs to use a certain printer(s). Is there?
This would be extremely useful to me.

Thanks,
Tim
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Anything you can do manually, you can automate with AutoIt

http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/

The forum is marvelous for help.

Lar.
 
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