Question : What is the best way to script printers in AD

Hi,

We have a windows 2000 single domain Active Directory with a few hundred xp clients.

At the mo we are manually adding the network printers at the clients. What is the best way for AD to assign the printers?

Create a GPO at each OU that maps specific printers??

Thanks

Scotty

Answer : What is the best way to script printers in AD

There are multiple ways to assign printers. One way is to have the one logon script (vbscript) and have it automatically assign a printer based on the membership of the computer account and/or the user and then set that to run in the default GPO for the organisation. Or you could have a seperate script for each OU by setting up a seperate GPO for each OU. Y

There are examples on how to do this here-

http://www.rlmueller.net/freecode2.htm

How to map a printer using vbscript-

http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/ezine/ezine16.htm