Printers & Permissions

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Hello everyone,

This is my first posting to a group such as this one as i can ususally
come up with a solution myself, but i need help as i am running out of
time.

I work as a system administrator in a school, over the summer holidays
a company has been in and put a new server (Windows 2003) in, in its
own domain. Hence i have a completely clean slate to start with.

Now as you can imaging this is quite a tall order for me to get up and
running in a week, but hey i love a challenge.

I have proposed that the pupils are given manadatory profiles and the
staff have roaming ones. As a result of that i am having two problems
which i struggling with.

Firstly:- Printers, if a pupil or staff member logs onto a client in
say room 20 i want that default printer to be the one in room 20, and
likewise if they login in room 19 i want the default printer to be the
one in 19. Does anyone know the easiest way to do this?

Secondly:- Once i have setup the default policies and profiles for the
staff and pupils, i will need a way of importing the users from a csv
file (which i have), does anyone know of a program that can do this as
well as create all the settings in their user accounts as i am not too
hot at writing large scripts?

Any help you can give me would be gratefully accepted, even if you can
only point me in the right direction.

Thank you
Justin
 
Jus said:
Firstly:- Printers, if a pupil or staff member logs onto a client in
say room 20 i want that default printer to be the one in room 20, and
likewise if they login in room 19 i want the default printer to be the
one in 19. Does anyone know the easiest way to do this?
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In my experience around schools, they almost always Ghost their harddrives
so that at the end of the semester after the students wreck havoc on the
machine it can be quicky restored for the next semester. Just keep "images"
that are unique to each room or group of rooms,..the image will be the image
of a machine that is setup the way you want those in that location to be.
Just remember to use the GhostWalker Utility to alter the SID after imaging
a machine so that each machine has a unique SID. The same utility can also
change the machine names as long as the new name is the same lenght.
Secondly:- Once i have setup the default policies and profiles for the
staff and pupils, i will need a way of importing the users from a csv
file (which i have), does anyone know of a program that can do this as
well as create all the settings in their user accounts as i am not too
hot at writing large scripts?
Click to expand...

I know of no such utility. It could be something that the Registration
Office can do. They can just create the student accounts as they are
registering the students. It would be a lot less work if it is "blended"
into the registration process rather than doing if after the fact.

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Firstly:- Printers, if a pupil or staff member logs onto a client in
say room 20 i want that default printer to be the one in room 20, and
likewise if they login in room 19 i want the default printer to be the
one in 19. Does anyone know the easiest way to do this?
Click to expand...

Set up the printer in an admin account. Then switch to another admin
account and go to user profiles to copy the profile from the first admin
account to the default profile on the machine, setting the access rights
under "permitted to use" to "everyone".
 
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