HowTo: Windows Server GPO printer driver installation under Windows 7

19. July 2011 a 07:00 | Article by John Sebald | 0 Comments

In order for Windows 7 Clients with Group Policy (Benutzerkonfiguration > Einstellungen > Systemsteuerungseinstellungen > Drucker)Network- Shared Printers and successfully assign, have the point-and limitations-point enabled and will be adjusted accordingly. Thus, in active User Account Control (Active is recommended!) the driver loaded as in the execution of the GPO and installed the printer.

Die Abfrage der Benutzerkontensteuerung zur Treiber-Installation eines Netzwerk-Druckers

The policy is available at Computerkonfiguration > Administrative Vorlagen > Drucker > Point-and-Point-Einschränkungen to find. There, the following settings must be made:

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HowTo: Event Error message 4098 Group Policy Printers 0×80070706

08. July 2011 a 07:00 | Article by John Sebald | 2 Comments

Following initial situation is represented: A new network printer was delivered and I have this on Windows SBS 2003 R2 with the latest PCL5 driver installed and enabled. So far, no problem. After that I have with the Group Policy (Benutzerkonfiguration > Einstellungen > Systemsteuerungseinstellungen > Drucker)a new TCP / IP printer and added that by targeting the appropriate Windows XP and Windows 7 Clients can be distributed.

So far so good. First, I have the GPO to a test computer by gpupdate updated, so the printer would have to be actually installed. Far. Okay I thought, as any administrator I check the event log on the client first. In fact, I'm right in the application log at the source "Group Policy Printers' find anything:

Ereigniseigenschaften des Fehlers 0x80070706

The user "192.168.xx.xx" setting item in the GPO "Default printer {4A5E0823-D333-4E69-B2E1-990B03BA1738}" was not taken, because an error with error code "0×80070706 The print processor is unknown." This error was suppressed. occurred.

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HowTo: PDF-printer on Windows Server with PDFCreator

03. March 2011 a 07:00 | Article by John Sebald | 2 Comments

How can I in my corporate network with Windows server and client operating system Windows, one or even several centrally managed set up PDF printer, have also different requirements? My in this regard were the following:

  • Automatically save after the print command from the application (in my case Word 2002) in a network share folder structure (without user interaction)
  • Different default password for multiple printers (without user interaction)
  • Password prompt when opening the PDF document

For Microsoft Office 2007 there is the free Add-in for 2007 Microsoft Office: “Save As - PDF or XPS” Microsoft. At Microsoft Office 2010 This feature is already integrated. The user can create and share PDF files and save dialog under the Options section, check "Encrypt document with a password".

Unter Microsoft Office 2010 ist die Funktion "PDF/XPS Dokument erstellen" bereits integriert.

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