Deploying Printers Via GPO on Terminal Server

[Paul]

Hi,

I can deploy printers via GPO perfectly fine to any client machine however i
can not get it to work on our terminal server.

Important things to know:
1. The terminal server is using Loopback addressing.
2. The Printer GPO is attached to the Terminal Server OU.
3. If i add the pritner GPO to the OU that the user is apart of then the
user will get there printers deployed when they logon to the terminal server.
4. If i do a gpresult on the user when they login to the Terminal server it
says they are getting the Printer GPO user based settings.
5. If look at C:\windows\prefetch it doesnt show the
pushprinterconnections.exe file on the terminal server. When i do this to a
users PC it does.

Summary
It appears that the pushprinterconnections.exe file isnt loading properly in
a TS environment using loopback addressing. I have to add the printer GPO to
the OU that the user is apart of to get it to work. All of the other
userbased GPO settings on the Terminal Server are working perfectly fine.

Thank you

[Paul]

I used the -log trigger and this is what came up in the log.

... Logging enabled by command line switch.
... Logging started at 10:39:23 AM 11/10/2006.
... Found and applied this GPO: IS Icons.
... No Deployed Printer Connection settings were found in Active Directory.

I cant seem to get the user based policy to work on the terminal server
using loopback processing. If i add this same GPO to the OU that my test
user is located in it works perfect.

Post by Paul
Hi,
I can deploy printers via GPO perfectly fine to any client machine however i
can not get it to work on our terminal server.
1. The terminal server is using Loopback addressing.
2. The Printer GPO is attached to the Terminal Server OU.
3. If i add the pritner GPO to the OU that the user is apart of then the
user will get there printers deployed when they logon to the terminal server.
4. If i do a gpresult on the user when they login to the Terminal server it
says they are getting the Printer GPO user based settings.
5. If look at C:\windows\prefetch it doesnt show the
pushprinterconnections.exe file on the terminal server. When i do this to a
users PC it does.
Summary
It appears that the pushprinterconnections.exe file isnt loading properly in
a TS environment using loopback addressing. I have to add the printer GPO to
the OU that the user is apart of to get it to work. All of the other
userbased GPO settings on the Terminal Server are working perfectly fine.
Thank you

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[Paul]

Terminal Server OU
- just has the terminal server computers

IS OU
Has IS Users

GPO Name = Printers
The Printers GPO has the pushprinterconnection.exe script per user login.

Conditions:
1. The Terminal Server is using Replace Mode Loopback Processing

Test1:
1. The Printers GPO is attached to the Terminal Server OU.
2. I login to the terminal server and do a gpresult. It says that i am
getting the printer User based GPO.
3. I do not recieve any printers and this is what the log says. No
Deployed Printer Connection settings were found in Active Directory.
4. I am not getting any user based policy that is attached to the IS OU
because i am using replace mode loopback processing on the terminal server.

Test2:
1. The Printers GPO is attached to the Terminal Server OU.
2. I login to the terminal server and do a gpresult. It says that i am
getting the printer User based GPO.
3. I attach the Printer GPO to the IS OU even though loopback processing is
set.
4. All of the other user based GPO attached to the IS OU is getting blocked
because of loopback processing.
5. I am able to get the Printers deployed.

Thoughts:
The Deploy Printer PCM is occuring before the loopback process takes effect.

Hopefully someone can piece this together for me its driving me nuts!

Post by Paul
Hi,
I can deploy printers via GPO perfectly fine to any client machine however i
can not get it to work on our terminal server.
1. The terminal server is using Loopback addressing.
2. The Printer GPO is attached to the Terminal Server OU.
3. If i add the pritner GPO to the OU that the user is apart of then the
user will get there printers deployed when they logon to the terminal server.
4. If i do a gpresult on the user when they login to the Terminal server it
says they are getting the Printer GPO user based settings.
5. If look at C:\windows\prefetch it doesnt show the
pushprinterconnections.exe file on the terminal server. When i do this to a
users PC it does.
Summary
It appears that the pushprinterconnections.exe file isnt loading properly in
a TS environment using loopback addressing. I have to add the printer GPO to
the OU that the user is apart of to get it to work. All of the other
userbased GPO settings on the Terminal Server are working perfectly fine.
Thank you

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